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Larry Samatua sentenced to 30-years in jail for rape convictions

The High Court yesterday sentenced convicted rapist Larry Samatua to serve 30 years in jail for his two rape convictions, handed down by a jury last year in the case involving a minor. Fili Sagapolutele [+]

Banned Chinese goods targeted by DOH store visits

Inspectors from the Department of Health will make unannounced visits to stores, starting today, looking for Chinese made goods that a DOH official says are part of a ban made more than a year ago through a directive by Gov. Togiola Tulafono. Fili Sagapolutele [+]

DPS credits roadblocks and public cooperation for safe holidays

Acting police commissioner Leseiau Laumoli says the public’s full cooperation during the police holiday enforcement kept the island-community a safe one for the Christmas and New Year’s weekend, with no major accidents or incidents happening. Fili Sagapolutele [+]

Court Briefs

The High Court has taken under advisement a plea agreement in the case of a father who allegedly assaulted his daughter in November. To protect the young female victim, Samoa News is not publishing the defendant’s name or village. Fili Sagapolutele [+]

Community Briefs

The Rotary Club of Pago Pago, under its Pacific Cultural Exchange (P.A.C.E) Program, has sent two students, Angel Ana Tipi and Joannis Amanda Galeai to Australia. Samoa News Staff [+]

Tsunami children start 2010 with a smile

Samoa Relief Wave’s crates of Christmas stockings sent to Samoa ran into a hiccup with delivery from Salt Lake City to LA and the vessel didn't reach Samoa until the last day of December. Things however couldn't have gotten any better, thanks to Samoa Relief Wave's partners, The US Veterans of Samoa, Inc. [+]

Solomons Tsunami Leaves 1,000 Homeless

More than 1,000 people have been left homeless after landslides and a tsunami devastated parts of the Solomon Islands. Hannah Thomas-Peter, Sky News Online [+]

Grim Obama says terror attack 'dots' not connected

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A grim-faced President Barack Obama declared Tuesday there was a deep failure of national intelligence in the botched Christmas Day airliner terror attack over Detroit, telling the nation the government had enough information to thwart potential disaster but could not "connect those dots." [+]

Premiums are key issue for health care negotiators

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional Democrats and President Barack Obama began work in earnest Tuesday on difficult issues still standing in the way of their national health care overhaul after months of tortuous debate. Topping the list: How to help Americans pay for insurance premiums. [+]

Obama suspends detainee transfers to Yemen

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Tuesday that no more Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to Yemen for now, as his administration ratcheted up security measures after a failed Christmas terror plot to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner. [+]

Book, Iran sojourn shed light on bin Laden family

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- With a book written by one of Osama bin Laden's sons, and with news of a daughter sheltering in the Saudi Embassy in Iran, some of the blanks are being filled in on the life of the 9/11 mastermind's large family, including lurid details of his parenting style. [+]

Hawaiian Airlines pilots holding ratification vote

HONOLULU (AP) -- Online voting has opened on a tentative contract covering 436 Hawaiian Airlines pilots. [+]

Hawaii's false killer whales may be endangered

HONOLULU (AP) -- The federal government is considering placing on the endangered species list a small population of dolphins that live near Hawaii and look like a killer whales. [+]

Giant tuna fetches $177,000 at Japan fish auction

TOKYO (AP) -- A giant bluefin tuna fetched 16.3 million yen ($177,000) in an auction Tuesday at the world's largest wholesale fish market in Japan. The 513-pound (233-kilogram) fish was the priciest since 2001 when a 440-pound (200 kilogram) tuna sold for a record 20.2 million yen ($220,000) at Tokyo's Tsukiji market. [+]

Hubble telescope shows earliest photo of universe

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the earliest image yet of the universe - just 600 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just a toddler. [+]

Google to sell Nexus One, a 'super' mobile phone

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Google Inc. began selling its own mobile phone Tuesday, a much-anticipated move aimed at protecting its online advertising empire as people increasingly surf the Web on handsets instead of personal computers. [+]