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UMUSA OFISA AUTU EKALESIA ASO FITU I LALOVAEA
 
Na amatalia le fonotaga faaletausaga a le Ekalesia Aso Fitu o le Toe Afio Mai i lona laumua i Lalovaea, i le sauniga faapitoa e faaulufale ai le ofisa autu o le ekalesia ma le maota o le Senetenari, i le taeao ananafi. O ia maota na faaleagaina i le afa o Eveni. Na saunoa le peresetene o le ekalesia, le susuga Pastor Uili Solofa, ua leva tausaga o totogi le inisiua o le ofisa tuai sa i ai ma ua leva ona fia fausia se ofisa fou.
 

DAVID LETULI
 
E lima tausaga lea ua poloaina e le fa’amasinoga maualuga e taofia ai le ali’i o David Letuli i le toese i Tafuna, ina ua ta’usala o ia i le moliaga mamafa o lona umia fa’asolitulafono lea o se vaega o le pauta fa’asaina o le aisa ‘methamphetamine’, i lalo o se maliliega na latou sainia ma le malo ma talia e le fa’amasinoga.
 

Vaega: 27
 
Na tau loa i ai mafaufauga o Petelo, te’i lava ua ‘ata, ona ua o’o lona mafaufauga e fa’apea, o lona uiga e fai loa sana tala i ona matua o Losalia lea o le a la nonofo, o lona uiga, o le isi fo’i lea afa fulifao o le a agi. Aua, ina ua iloa e ona matua, na fa’amagalo e lona tama, a’o lona tina, ua nofo fo’i ma lalau le fia lelei o le toeaina ma le fa’avalevale, ona ua i ai le loto o le lo’omatua, e tatau lava ona ta’u i luma o le nu’u, se i fa’asala ai.

Civilian aide to the Secretary of the U.S. Army, Mapu Jamias has declared his candidacy  for American Samoa’s delegate seat to the U.S. House of Representatives in the local Nov. 4 general election.
 
The retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel is the sixth person seeking to unseat longtime incumbent, Congressman Faleomavaega Eni, who has yet to announce whether he will seek re-election.
 

Criminal Justice Planning Agency Director Keith Gebauer says that his department can fund security lights and cameras to help with not only Tafuna High School’s latest round of vandalism, but for other schools, which suffer from the same sort of problem.
 
The equipment, according to Gebauer, would “have the capability of being easily set-up at a different locations, to allow the Juvenile Division the flexibility to use the equipment at another school if needed.”
 

DRUG DEFENDANT TO SERVE FIVE YEARS IN JAIL
 

Drug defendant Misi Iti, 42 years old, will depart the territory after serving 20 months as part of his five years probation, and this was after his wife refused to sponsor the defendant, who is a citizen of independent Samoa.
 
Iti, who has been in jail since February, 2014 — with bail set at $40,000 — pled guilty to unlawful possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine.
 

WEEKEND TEMPERATURE TOPS RECORD BOOK
 
This past weekend, residents of the Territory have been donning long-sleeve shirts, sweat pants, and jackets, as temperatures dropped and a cold chill swept across the islands.
 
During the early morning hours of Saturday, July 12, the temperature dropped to a cool 66 degrees — a new record for that day, in American Samoa.
 
The record for the month of July still stands at 64 degrees, back in 1978.
 

A commission of inquiry in Samoa is giving top police officers options to resign or respond to allegations and proceed with the inquiry.

The suspended police commissioner, Lilomaiava Fou Taioalo, and the former Tafaigata prison head, Sala Seaga Uili Lafaele, have been accused of misusing power and corruption at the prison and were suspended in September.

The chairman of the commission, the ombudsman Maiava Iulai Toma, made the announcement today in the presence of the suspended senior officers and their lawyers.

The former husband of Tongan Princess, Mele Siu'ilikutapu, has died in Hawaii after it appears he was shot in the head.

Kaniva News reports family have confirmed that Joshua Tu'iono Liava'a, who was also a former New Zealand policeman, died in Kahaluu yesterday after a shooting incident.

Honolulu Police have arrested a Tongan man, 18-year-old Samuela Mataele, in connection with Mr Liava'a's death following a seven hour manhunt.

Hawaii Now News reports police as saying the accused fired one round from a rifle, hitting a 65-year-old man in the head.