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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Drug defendant gets a second chance from the court, after his tearful plea for the court’s indulgence to return home to care for his young children.
Silila Faamanatu, who has been in jail since June appeared before the court for sentencing last week. Faamanatu, who has a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomes news on Monday that the Supreme Court of the United States did not take up the Fitisemanu case, allowing the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to stand and in essence confirming the prior Tuaua case in the DC Court of Appeals...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A father has been charged by the police over the alleged beating of his 10-year-old son.
The defendant made his initial appearance in District Court last month and is charged with abuse of a child and 2nd degree assault.
His bail is set at $10,000. To protect the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S Supreme Court yesterday denied a request by three individuals born in American Samoa and residing in Utah, to review a decision by the majority of the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that citizenship birth on U.S. soil is not applicable to those...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Lt. Gov. Talauega E.V. Ale, in his capacity as acting governor last Friday, proclaimed today, Oct. 17 as American Samoa’s “Constitution Day” with the celebration later this afternoon at Suigaula o le Atuvasa Park in Utulei.
This is the second year in a row that the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “The United States will continue to support American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S Virgin Islands in their collective and individual endeavors to improve the quality of life of their peoples,” declared Jeffrey DeLaurentis, the Senior Adviser for Special Political Affairs of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man was arrested last month after a woman called the Tafuna Police Substation (TPS) saying that her brother had been assaulted and was being taken to the LBJ Hospital by ambulance for treatment
According to the government’s case, the caller told police that her brother...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man convicted of assaulting his 17-year-old cousin with a piece of metal was ordered by the court to depart the territory and remain outside of its border as a condition of his 5 years probation.
Tauloma Samasoni, who has been in custody since his arrest in July of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — To date there has been no official document issued on the outcome of the Atoa o Samoa Executive talks that concluded last Friday in Apia. After previous talks a communique was routinely released for public information.
Last week a memorandum of understanding was signed...
Washington, D.C. — National media is reporting the latest U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declines to take up the Amerian Samoa birthright citizenship case.
The court’s decision to stay out of the matter comes as a disappointment to many who wanted the justices to take the case and overturn a series...