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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A woman was arrested by police last month and accused of abusing her 12-year-old son.
The defendant is charged with one count of abuse of a child involving domestic violence, a class D felony; along with one count of 3rd degree and one count of endangering the welfare of...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed notice of $115,789 in COVID-19 grants for the American Samoa Community College’s efforts to educate the community on COVID-19.
The grant, which is a program of the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Families of several nurses who have been placed on leave without pay after they failed to comply with the Governor’s mandate for all first responders and health workers to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 — including the booster shot, have spoken out for the first time...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Another round of tax refund checks - totaling more than $1.8 million - is scheduled for release today, Monday, Apr. 25, bringing new cash into the local economy and giving consumers new purchasing power, that will keep stores and other outlets busy this week.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 42-year-old man accused of assaulting a man in Aua by striking the victim’s head with a piece of timber made his initial appearance in Court last month.
Si’u Amosa is charged with one count of unlawful possession of marijuana, an unclassified felony, punishable by...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata took part this past week in a Congressional Delegation (CODEL) that included a series of meetings in Papua, New Guinea, as part of a wide-ranging trip to several Pacific region countries that have strategic alignment with the United States.
In...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On the night of Feb. 18, 2022, two cops observed Sio Lafoa’i spill a bag of potato chips on the ground after he and another male were pulled over at the Sobriety Checkpoint for an open container in the vehicle.
Lafoa’i was the passenger. (Samoa News is withholding the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man from Petesa was arrested last month accused of attempting to assault his uncle’s wife while she was holding her one-year-old granddaughter.
When Alesana Vili made his initial appearance in Court, the court granted a motion to release him on his own recognizance to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — LBJ Medical Center has recorded one new COVID-19 related death, bringing the total number of fatalities to 24 since the first death was reported late last month, according to officials who participated in Friday’s COVID-19 Task Force daily briefing.
LBJ reported during...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During Wednesday’s virtual cabinet meeting, the local Education Department presented ASDOE’s Hybrid Plan to reopen schools for in-class instruction on alternating days, according to a news release yesterday from the Governor’s Office, saying that the presentation was...