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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The driver of a pick-up truck pulled over by police officers last month for failure to stop at a stop sign is now charged with violating local drug laws. The pick-up almost collided with another vehicle.
Meki Iafeta was taken into custody when police discovered two small...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Dept. of Health is encouraging all families to prepare for when someone in their household tests positive for COVID-19 and is in isolation at home. This comes about as the positive count rose to 494 after Friday’s testing, with the total in Tafuna reaching 100....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During a Zoom virtual news conference on Friday, Allison Pfaendler — leader of the U.S Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Incident Management Assistance Team (IMAT), provided an update of the federal team’s response, work and support with local officials,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The driver of a vehicle that was pulled over by police officers during a traffic stop in Nuuuli last month was arrested and taken into custody after police allegedly discovered drugs in his vehicle.
On Feb. 07, 2022 about 3:35a.m, two officers patrolling the Nuuuli area...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man convicted of assaulting his niece with a shovel was ordered by the court to depart the territory and remain outside of its border as a condition of his 5 years probation.
Manase Sautila, who has been in custody since his arrest in January of last year unable to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While the numbers of confirmed COVID cases in the community continue to climb each and everyday, two sides of the issue to vaccinate or not continues to echo through the community.
Leading the call to vaccinate and get boosted to protect themselves from serious illness...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a virtual Zoom news conference today, Friday, Health officials announced that the territory’s cumulative COVID-19 positive count has reached 433 confirmed community cases, as of Mar. 10.
In the 24-hour period up to Mar. 10, DoH reported 51 new positive cases...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Just in time to provide financial assistance to workers, impacted with Code Red restrictions, the local Treasury Department announced that the first-batch of tax refund checks totaling more than $1 million is being released today, Friday, Mar. 11.
Treasury also says that...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In an email statement to local news outlets this week, Commerce director Petti T. Matila moved to set the “record straight to avoid misinformation during this challenging time”, following an email request from former American Samoa Chamber of Commerce chair, Ella Gurr,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa COVID19 Outbreak Situational Report issued yesterday morning states that the territory’s cumulative COVID-19 positive counts as of March 9 has reached 382 “confirmed community cases”, no deaths, 79 treated with therapeutics, and 11 previous cases have...