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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Federal attorneys representing the US National Marine Fisheries Service have asked the United States Supreme Court to deny a petition for a “writ of certiorari” by the Territory of American Samoa to review a federal appeal’s court ruling, which reversed a lower court...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a health advisory this week, the Health Department said that DoH and VA medical teams will continue COVID-19 vaccination today at the Department of Youth and Women’s Affairs facility in Tafuna, Gov. H. Rex Lee Auditorium and Tafuna Primary Clinic. No vaccinations set...
Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata
Washington, D.C. — Thursday, Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed official notice of a Department of Transportation (DOT) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grant for the airport at Fitiuta, Ta’u, designated to the runway lighting project. The grant totaling $338,888 includes $33,888 from...
Aleki Sene Jr
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The chair of the America Samoa Telecommunication Authority (ASTCA) Board, Aleki Sene Jr has been suspended from his role, as chair —  until further notice. A source told Samoa News that the decision to suspend Sene Jr was based on the issue that there is a conflict of...
Federal Courthouse Anchorage, Alaska
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Samoan man living in Anchorage, Alaska has been indicted on federal charges of possessing heroin and methamphetamine for distribution and illegally possessing firearms as a convicted felon. Forty-two year old Kirt Sainila Filoiali’i appeared last Friday before US...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In proclaiming May 2021 to be “Older Americans Month” in American Samoa, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga “urged every member of our community to take time this month to honor our older adults and the professionals, family members, volunteers and caregivers who...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Associate Justice Fiti Sunia has ordered the sponsor of a man from Samoa convicted for violating local drug laws to step up and fulfill his responsibility under Immigration local laws by paying the defendant’s $2,000 fine ordered by the Court as a condition of his 5-year...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Sounds of cheers and sighs of relief that the pandemic is winding down are in the air as this year more schools are once again holding commencement exercises. Here are two with graduates from American Samoa. CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY Undergraduate and graduate degrees were...
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  A 52-year-old man accused of sexually abusing his 15-year-old niece was arrested after authorities were tipped off by the victim’s stepmother. (In the interest of protecting the minor victim, Samoa News is withholding the name of the defendant, who is her uncle. The court affidavit provides the...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale has made clear to a US congressional committee American Samoa’s message that any change to its political status and rights under federal territorial law, should be decided by local elected leaders, the territory’s people and the elected...

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