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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tualauta Reps. Larry Sanitoa and Sam Meleisea met recently with Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga to discuss various urgent and pending projects for the most populous county in the territory. It was also a chance for the lawmakers to get input back from the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Director of the Department of Human and Social Services (DHSS) Muavaefaatasi John Edward Suisala said that the only personnel change made in the department after the file containing documents related to the non profit organization with which he’s involved was leaked to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga has issued a new directive to cabinet members to immediately cease transferring employees between departments and henceforth any transfer will now require the governor’s approval.
“Effective immediately, the moving of employees...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The case against a married man accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl was filed in District Court last month.
Thirty six-year-old man, who has a pending drug case in High Court from 2019, made his initial appearance last month. He is charged with two counts of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Associate Justice Fiti A. Sunia of the High Court of American Samoa is among the new defendants in the third proposed constitutional rights lawsuit brought by local resident Steven Jay Pincus Hueter, who maintains that his right to assemble at any time remains violated...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 42-year-old man accused of assaulting another man in Petesa by striking the victim’s head with a 2x4 board his initial appearance in District Court last week.
Alfred Unasa is charged with one count of second-degree assault, a class D felony, carrying a prison sentence...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga was joined by four cabinet members during a virtual meeting from the Governor’s Office last week, with senior executives of the US Interior Department.
According to brief information released on the ASG website — (americansamoa....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Three men were arrested by police on three different occasions two weeks ago in the Tafuna area on allegations that they each assaulted their wives.
The first incident happened in Ottoville, while the other two incidents were reported from Tafeta and Nu’uuli. Alcohol was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG Treasurer Malemo L. Tausaga, in a sworn affidavit filed with the federal court in Washington D.C., which is hearing a constitutional rights lawsuit brought by local resident Steven Jay Pincus Hueter, says CARES Act funds allocated to Fono members have been returned...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man convicted for violating local drug laws was sentenced by the High Court to a period of detention of 12 months at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF), which is the time he has already served while awaiting the outcome of his case.
Rintel I’atala, who was...