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Menlo Park, CALIFORNIA — On Wednesday Facebook launched a public education campaign to help people in Samoa learn how to identify and combat health misinformation.  The campaign, which will run for the next five weeks in Samoa includes graphics and videos that will run in English and Samoan, and...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of assaulting another man by striking his head with a metal object twice was arrested and is being charged. Aokuso Luafa made his initial appearance in Court last week. He is charged with one count of 2nd degree assault, a class D felony, punishable by...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An overstayer, who made his initial appearance in District Court last week, has been remanded to custody on a 'no bail' status. According to Immigration, the defendant's Immigration ID expired on March 19, 2018. The defense attorney informed the court that the defendant'...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The federal judge presiding over local resident Steven Jay Pincus Hueter’s lawsuit against current and former American Samoa Government officials at the federal court in Washington D.C. has denied as moot, parts of plaintiff’s Second Motion for a Preliminary Injunction...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu P.S. Mauga announced this past week that American Samoa, through the Department of Human and Social Services (DHSS), received grant awards from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in the amount of $49,606,689 through the Child Care and...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who allegedly assaulted his 17-year-old nephew was arrested and charged. Tanielu Tuli made his initial appearance in Court last week. He is charged with one count of abuse of a child, a class D felony; along with one count of endangering the welfare of a child and...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man from Petesa accused of attempting to assault his uncle’s wife while she was holding her one-year-old was arrested last month. Alema Vaili made his initial appearance in court last month where the court granted a motion from the defense attorney to release Vaili on...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The attorney for former Territorial Correctional Facility inmate, James Glenn Barlow has filed an application for pardon, with Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Mauga, who was informed that this is the second request, as the first one was submitted in the Spring of 2020 to...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man convicted of assaulting his girlfriend by striking the back of her head with a coconut was sentenced by the High Court to 7 years at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) — straight sentence. Court records show that this is not the first time this defendant...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With no sidewalks on Ottoville Road, a very busy street with traffic and pedestrians and many vehicles speeding, Pacific Horizons School (PHS) — next to the main Ottoville Road — is requesting Public Works Department director Faleosina Voigt for help. PHS director...

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