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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week.
Mormon Church severs some of its ties to the Boy Scouts
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church, the biggest sponsor of Boy Scout troops in the United States, announced Thursday it is pulling as many as 185,000 older youths from the organizatio
ASG mum about unpermitted Fatu-ma-Futi excavation
![[photo: BC]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fatumafuti.jpg?itok=GHL7mANb "[photo: BC]")
With the recent wet weather conditions, callers have been reaching out to Samoa News, worried that the mountainside at Fatu-ma-Futi, which was recently excavated, is a catastrophe waiting to happen
DPS now issues traffic e-tickets, sent automatically to court
![WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY: Police senior officer, Lomu Mosese (left), demonstrated yesterday for a motorist, the Department of Public Safety’s new “electronic citation” or e-Ticket system, in which a police officer uses a laptop to issue a traffic violation ticket to a driver and the citation is automatically transmitted to the District Court. [photo: AF]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Police%20n%20eTicket_0.jpg?itok=4szX99Pj "WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY: Police senior officer, Lomu Mosese (left), demonstrated yesterday for a motorist, the Department of Public Safety’s new “electronic citation” or e-Ticket system, in which a police officer uses a laptop to issue a traffic violation ticket to a driver and the citation is automatically transmitted to the District Court. [photo: AF]")
Three developments are happening right now at the Department of Public Safety.
PCC Fireknife Championship
![Falaniko Penesa who took second place in last year’s competition is from Samoa. [photo: PCC]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Fireknife%20Falaniko%20PenesaJPG.JPG?itok=V97WpDdr "Falaniko Penesa who took second place in last year’s competition is from Samoa. [photo: PCC]")
Laie, HAWAII — Twenty-five years ago, Pulefano Galeai of the Polynesian Cultural Center had a vision to create an annual competition honoring one of Samoa’s most revered and dangerously be
Tautai fishing group says no to Gov’s Fishery Task Force offer
![[SN file photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Boats-for-Sale_4.jpg?itok=AJr0xXmn "[SN file photo]")
A locally based longline fishing group has claimed that chairman of the Governor’s Fishery Task Force has sought out its members to agree to an amendment to the Large Vessel Prohibited Area (LVPA)
WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY
WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY: Police senior officer, Lomu Mosese (left), demonstrated yesterday for a motorist, the Department of Public Safety’s new “electronic citation” or e-Ticket sys
Tina - “O se Penina Tautele i lona Aiga!”
O se va’aiga i le tina matua 89 tausaga o le soifua, o Ma’ave Sa’ei Paogofie-Jamias i lana asiasiga mai i si ona aiga. O lona ata ma lona alo o Mapu Saei Jamais. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
O se va’aiga i le tama’ita’i Faiaoga, Dr Faofua Va’apu’u - Fa’atoafe Ta’ita’ifono o Mataupu Fa’apisinisi a le Kolisi Tuufa’atasi o Amerika Samoa, ma se tasi o ana vasega fa’au’u 2015. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
O se va’aiga i le tina Faiaoga ua litaea, Fiafia Seui - Samuelu o Nuuuli, ma ni isi o lana ekalesia. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
Le alofa o le Tina, ua fa’ailoa o se alofa ua vavalalata ma le alofa tuona o le Atua soifua. O ia o le fautua i mea lelei i olaga o lana fanau aua latou fatuaiga tausi.