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Pago Pago, AMERICA SAMOA — The Department of Health (DOH) spearheaded Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) relief screenings at local schools earlier this month.
The BYU RHD Relief Team visited the territory to provide the screenings at Pava'ia'i Elementary School, on Thursday May 2nd; and Tafuna...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Chief Justice Michael Kruse has continued the hearing for Sefulu Maifea’s motion for early release, to allow the him and his defense team to provide more meaningful information to support their motion.
Former Customs Office supervisor Sefulu Maifea, who is serving 28...
Washington, D.C. — The 2009, magnitude-8.1 Samoa earthquake dealt a great deal of damage to the Samoan Islands: Tsunami waves as high as 14 meters (46 feet) wiped out multiple villages, claiming nearly 200 lives and severely damaging water and electrical systems.
New research reveals the damage is...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — StarKist Co., is facing a new civil lawsuit, and this time, a “class action complaint” filed at the federal court in San Francisco, alleging — among other things — that the company violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and misled...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The two high school students accused of stoning a police car while cops were driving to the Leone Substation from Malaeloa in March of this year have entered into a plea agreement with the government.
Susi Fiso and Jeremiah Moe, both 18, appeared in High Court this week...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An overstayer from Samoa, convicted of unlawful possession of illegal drugs, was ordered to depart the territory, and remain outside of its borders for the duration of his 5-year probation term.
Soo Savelio, who has been in custody since his arrest last year due to his...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Pacific Horizons (PHS) continues to maintain its international academic caliber. A couple of PHS high school students have received scholarships to study abroad this summer.
Luiama Talei Filemoni-Tofaeono, a 14-year-old sophomore at PHS will be heading out to England....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The ASG Treasury Department has announced that tax refunds, which include Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) funds will be released today, Friday, May 17th for taxpayers who filed between January 25- 29, 2019, according to a Treasury media release sent to Samoa News late...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man charged with second degree burglary is remanded to custody on a 'no bail' status, after the court was informed by Immigration yesterday morning that his ID expired Feb. 6, 2019
Preliminary examination for Sitivi Opetaia is this morning in District Court.
His bail...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Commerce Department has suspend the business license for Taxi Owner’s Association (TOA) — referred to as TOA Taxi stand — which is at the center of complaints over their drastic increase of taxi rates, that became effective May 1st.
The Commerce Commission is the ASG...