![[Courtesy photo]](http://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/AYFS%20matais%20update.jpg?itok=NHfhY7up "[Courtesy photo]")
Our local team - the AYFS Matais - were scheduled to play yesterday but were declared winners by way of forfeit, after the San Diego United team failed to field a complete team of eleven players.
![[photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]](http://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/taputimu%20shoreline.jpg?itok=CP_NUKQy "[photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]")
Heavy equipment and machinery belonging to contractor McConnell Dowell are in place at Taputimu, to carry out the Shoreline Protection and Road Repair Project in that area.
![Si Ufaga Moana was charged Wednesday with abuse of a family member in the presence of a child. [photo: HPD]](http://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/web1_20170623-WEB-siufaga-moana-MUG.jpg?itok=4NnWr0qT "Si Ufaga Moana was charged Wednesday with abuse of a family member in the presence of a child. [photo: HPD]")
A 22-year-old Kalihi Valley man allegedly punched and kicked his pregnant wife after she asked him for money to buy food for their 2-year-old son.
![[SN file photo]](http://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/STP%20photo%200260web_3.jpg?itok=qTsaHRIE "[SN file photo]")
Tri Marine International has dismissed a public claim that “most of the gear” at its Samoa Tuna Processors Inc.
A representative from the AS-EPA speaking to some of the kids who attended the Progressive Agriculture Community Safety Day for Children held yesterday at the ASCC gymnasium.
Se vaaiga i ni isi o tagata faigaluega mai le Samoa Tuna Processors a o le i tapunia lana tautua i le fa’aiuga o le tausaga na te’a nei. [ata AF]
E su’ifefiloi finagalo fa’aalia mai ni isi o le mamalu o le atunu’u o lo o galulue i le kamupani i’a a le StarKist Samoa, ina ua fesiligia i latou e le Samoa News e fa’atatau i le tulafono taufa’ao
Ua i ai nisi o le aufaigaluega a le ASTCA po’o le Ofisa o Feso’otaiga a le malo ua maua tusi fa’ailo e malolo mai galuega o i ai.
Le afioga i le Komesina o Leoleo, tofa Le’i Sonny Thompson. [ata AF]
O le taeao ananafi na tu’uina atu ai e le afioga i le ali’i Fa’amasino ia Fiti Sunia se feau taua mo le Komesina o Leoleo, i auala e fa’atinoina ai e leoleo a latou tiute i lalo o le tulafono.