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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Capt. Timothy takes over the Commander post for Charlie Company, 100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry Regiment from Cpt. Carneen Cotton, who is the first female infantry company commander in the US Army Reserve.
In her farewell speech, Cotton said, “I took on the challenge”...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a vote of 8-yes and 6-nays, the Senate yesterday disapproved its version of the Administration bill seeking to raise local investment by ASG Employees' Retirement Fund from from 17% to 35% .
Fono senior staffers said the Senate needed at least 10-yes votes for...
The owner of the rental unit in Leone who was charged and convicted of assaulting a 50-year-old woman and her daughter who rented the unit, was sentenced by District Court Judge Fiti Sunia to 12 months probation.
Melody Afoa was initially charged with 2nd degree assault, a class D felony; and 3rd...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Acting Associate Justice, Elvis P. Patea has quashed the Order To Show Cause (OSC) hearing against the sponsor of a Fijian fisherman who is serving time at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF), after the court was satisfied that the sponsor has already paid the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — LBJ Medical Center chief executive officer Faumuina John Faumuina has called on lawmakers to revisit the current law that requires the only medical center in the territory to provide “free medical attention” to the public.
Faumuina made the request last week during the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It's been three weeks since a Tafuna HS senior was allegedly assaulted several yards from the front doorstep of his Malaeimi home by some aumaga members of Nuuuli village and speculations that a civil lawsuit is in the making, are already in the air.
"How do we teach our...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The main highway in Tutuila is all decorated and local students, along with ASG employees, will stand along both sides of the road today, to await US Secretary of Interior, Ryan Zinke’s pass-through motorcade which will be led by a police escort this morning.
Zinke will...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An administration bill raising the local investment from 17% to 35% for the ASG Employees’ Retirement Fund passed during second reading yesterday in the Senate and is expected to go through final reading today.
Prior to the vote during the Senate session, the Senate...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The two men convicted of receiving stolen property and then selling the items knowing they were stolen from a house in Nu’uuli were sentenced last Friday.
Fuavai Sua and Lualima Taliu were ordered by Acting Associate Justice Elvis P. Patea to serve 14 months in jail, as...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The woman accused of trying to deliver a package containing a huge quantity of methamphetamine into the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) early last month is now in custody.
Ienisei Matautia was arrested by Detectives of the DPS Vice & Narcotics Unit over the...