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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 33-year-old man, who is of Samoan ancestry and resides in Kent, Washington was sentenced Tuesday at the federal court in Seattle to serve two years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm during a civil unrest and looting in downtown Seattle, according...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 42-year-old man accused of assisting two males who burglarized a home on the west side has entered into a plea agreement with the government.
Tala Muliaga was originally charged with one count of stealing, a class C felony, punishable by imprisonment term of up to 7...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of selling hand rolled marijuana cigarettes to three different people behind a store in the Tafuna area last year has entered into a plea agreement.
Faamanu Aleki, 38, of Tafuna appeared in court last week for a pretrial conference but pled out instead....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The court has set bail at $500 for Tausi Lafaele, who was taken into custody in June following an incident in Tafuna where he is alleged to have gone to his neighbor’s home with a machete, and also challenged people in the neighborhood to a fight.
Lafaele, who made his...
![[l-r] Mrs. Evelyn Lili’o-Satele, Mrs. Saouila Fanene Kava, and Vaitinasa Dr. Salu Hunkin-Finau](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/doe_certification_board.jpg?itok=g4--V_Xx "Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga’s three nominees to the ASG Department of Education Certification Board [l-r] Mrs. Evelyn Lili’o-Satele, Mrs. Saouila Fanene Kava, and Vaitinasa Dr. Salu Hunkin-Finau posed for a Samoa News photo yesterday morning before their Senate Education Committee confirmation hearing. [photo: FS]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga has nominated three women to the ASG Department of Education Certification — Mrs. Evelyn Lili’o-Satele, Mrs. Saouila Fanene Kava, and Vaitinasa Dr. Salu Hunkin-Finau — and they appeared this past Thursday morning before the Senate Education...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Repeat offender Richard Mata was ordered by the court last week to serve out the remaining 7 months of a 20-month sentence from a 2018 case. The decision came after the court found Mata in violation of conditions of his 5-year probation.
Mata was found guilty by the...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting Senate passage of an infrastructure bill with $50 million plus additional grant funding for American Samoa. The bill, led by a bipartisan group of eight negotiators, was passed by the U.S. Senate, and must now go to the House. It...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tualauta Rep. Larry S. Sanitoa early this week wrote to American Samoa Power Authority’s executive director, Wallon Young for help on two items.
The first is the “road cut” on the Fagaima Road in front of the Assembly of God church. “I am uncertain if this is ASPA's...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who unlawfully entered a house at night and attempted to sexually abuse a 16-year-old girl last year was sentenced to 28 months in prison, as a condition of his 7-year probation sentence.
Anthony Valaau, 26, was initial charged with burglary in the second-degree...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The ASG Department of Commerce’s Statistics Division released on Tuesday, the combined 2018-2019 Statistical Yearbook for the territory. And this is the thirty-seventh edition of this publication.
The Yearbook provides statistics and trends of demographic, social and...