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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man with an outstanding arrest warrant was taken into custody last month after police picked him up for a public peace disturbance (PPD) matter in Petesa in the Tafuna area.
Asomaliu Opetaia, 31, who has a previous assault conviction from 2014, made his initial...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has requested a police report on recent incidents of suicide — which has been called a “pandemic” — while the Health Department is spearheading a territory-wide church service this coming Sunday, with the goal to get the message out that there...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Environmental concerns have become one of the many issues that have surfaced during this year’s gubernatorial race and teams have included in their publicized campaign platforms their priority on such an important subject.
During the American Samoa Bar Association’s...
Honolulu, HAWAII — More than 100 members of the Tagata Tutu Faatasi Alliance of American Samoa came out in droves, early Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, not only to pick up food from a Free Food Drive sponsored by the Le Fetuao Samoan Language Center-Hawaii in partnership with the CCCAS Church, Gingerlei...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A lawsuit against the Chief Justice, F. Michael Kruse, “is a gigantic waste of judicial resource” and is a “text book example of frivolity and vexation,” according to the defense’s detailed response to Steven Jay Pincus Hueter’s complaint against the Chief Justice....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of sexually abusing two young female victims, then aged 7 and 15 — was recently arrested by police, after the initial report was made over a year ago.
The defendant made his initial appearance in court two weeks ago.
(Samoa News has chosen not to identify...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After the High Court sentenced Agavale Ugapo two months ago to 28 months in the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF), as a condition of a 7-year probation term for embezzlement, he once again appeared in District Court last week for a Probation Revocation hearing due...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “How would your administration increase basic government services to Manu’a?” was the second question posed to the three teams who attended last week’s second gubernatorial forum hosted by the American Samoa Bar Association at the American Samoa Community College...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa is seeking to fill seats on its advisory council, which represents the public’s interests in sanctuary matters and provides advice to the sanctuary superintendent.
The sanctuary is accepting applications for the following seats...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — About 50 early childhood teachers in American Samoa claim they are owed pay and are "getting the run-around" from the government.
The group said they had not been paid for four weeks of summer workshops they attended.
Two of the teachers said the HeadStart workshops were...