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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A fourth imported COVID-19 positive case has been identified by local health officials after one of the passengers who arrived from Honolulu on the Oct. 14th Hawaiian Airlines flight tested positive.
The new COVID-19 was one of the passengers quarantined at the Fatuoaiga...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A woman accused of passing bad checks at several restaurants and at least one store is now in custody after she was arrested two weeks ago.
Leataata Poufa made her initial appearance in District at that time.
She is charged with one count of passing bad checks; one count...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The case of a man accused of causing serious bodily harm to another man in Petesa last month has been bound over to High Court, after the Court found probable cause to support the charges during a preliminary examination (PX) last week.
Aleki Ualesi who is held in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Health Department’s third-round of Mass Drug Administration (MDA) for Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) kicked off over the weekend with a church service on Sunday at the Nu'uuli Methodist Church.
It was officially launched the following day, as DoH teams began their village...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The court emphasized during the sentencing of two men from Samoa convicted of drug charges, that sponsors need to understand and fulfill their responsibilities under immigration laws. The court said failure on the sponsor’s part to not renew an alien’s immigration ID is...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Alpha Elipson Mu chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Honor Society has been a part campus life at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) practically since the College’s beginnings, and even the current pandemic has caused no interruption to the regular...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga signed into law last Friday, Oct. 14th, a Fono approved bill, which originated from the Senate and increase the salaries of the governor and lieutenant governor, as well as raises the office expense allowance for lawmakers.
Both increases are...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A power outage Friday night was caused by the failure of an underground joints transmission line between Satala and Tafuna power plants and affected villages on the west side of Tutuila, The outage lasted between 18 minutes to nearly an hour depending on the electric-...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a proclamation, dated Oct. 18, 2021, Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga ordered the flags of the United States and American Samoa be flown at half-staff until sunset, Oct. 22, 2021 for General Colin Powell, who passed away Oct. 18, 2021, at the age of 84.
The governor pointed to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who was convicted of stealing was released from custody last week, after the High Court determined that the 12 months he served at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF), to await sentencing, was enough.
Pule Uati, under a plea agreement with the government,...