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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An overstayer from Samoa convicted of burglarizing a home in Pavaiai is going to jail. Sitivi Opetaia was ordered by the High Court to serve 28 months at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) as a condition of his 7-year probation.
Opetaia, who was held in custody...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are doing more home deliveries now than before,” Evelyn Lili’o Satele, the now fully Fono confirmed director of the Territorial Office of Administration on Aging (TAOA) said of the senior cooked food program during her Senate...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A second bus driver accused of using altered information to obtain a commercial permit to operate a bus was arrested by police last week.
The driver, Makalio Alesana made his initial appearance in District Court last week.
Alesana is charged with one count of fraud and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Aside from donating cases of essential items specifically requested by the government’s “Long Journey Home: American Samoa Repatriation Donation Drive”, Bluesky Communications is donating $70,000 in total value of telecommunication services to help returning residents on...
Honolulu, HAWAII — Mrs. Elisapeta T. Lesatele Alaimaleata and the Le Fetuao Samoan Language Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, received with humble hearts a donation from Mr. Nick Peters on behalf of the Peters Family from Mesepa and also Nick's rugby club in Hawaii, in support of American Samoa's future...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Any person entering American Samoa will be required to provide two negative COVID-19 tests and be quarantined for 15 days, while all regular scheduled passenger flights to and from the territory remain suspended, according to Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga’s...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The alleged long delay in getting clearance for future government workers from the local Homeland Security Department (ASDHS) was one of the issues raised on Wednesday during the confirmation hearing for Samana Semo Ve’ave’a as director of that department.
Sen. Muagututi...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A taxi driver and a passenger who were arrested and charged with violating local drug laws after police executed a search warrant on a taxi cab in Ottoville last year have entered into a plea agreement with the government.
Assistant Public Defender Ryan Anderson...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An alleged fight between a couple from Fogagogo over the wife’s suspicion that her husband was having an affair with another woman has landed the couple in jail.
It’s alleged that after the man assaulted his wife during a domestic spat, the wife went to a nearby store...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man with an outstanding arrest warrant was picked up by police last month and charged with unlawful possession of drugs after a woman told authorities that her husband bought two marijuana cigarettes and a glass pipe containing methamphetamine from him.
Vincent Brown...