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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A former employee of the Attorney General’s Office convicted of stealing money from people, who were seeking an ‘OK-Board’ for travel, was sentenced by the High Court to 24 months probation.
Loimata Savea, who out on a $5,000, cash bond, appeared before Associate Justice...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa Airways announced over this past weekend that it was scheduling one-repatriation flight for Samoan nationals and cargo from Pago Pago on Friday, Apr. 30th, departing American Samoa at 1:45p.m arriving in Apia on May 1st.
For registration on this flight, the Samoa...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The driver of a black truck, on which investigators allegedly found drugs and drug paraphernalia has been arrested and charged with unlawful possession of drugs.
Two police officers were patrolling the Nu’uuli public highway on the early morning of Mar. 24th when they...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga, through an Apr. 20th memorandum, established the 13-member Territorial Hazard Mitigation Council, which is to assist the Territorial Emergency Management Coordination Office (TEMCO) in fulfilling its responsibilities outlined in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Several police officers rushed in response to an incident at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) when a group of inmates engaged in a fight inside the compound over the weekend.
Police got the matter under control and immediately started their investigation,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 26-year-old man from Samoa arrested for breaking into a house and a store in the Tafuna area at night is also charged with violating local drug laws. When questioned by investigators, the defendant, Fale Lelevaga stated that the plan with two of his friends was to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The new Fono Building as well as the new high court building are the two major projects to be funded with revenue from a proposed 2021 Bond Series issuance approved by the American Samoa Economic Development Authority (ASEDA) board of directors last week.
A “Notice of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Nursing program at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) includes community outreach components such as the student nurses volunteering to assist at LBJ Hospital, as well as activities where they take their services directly to the public.
This week, the ASCC...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The man who is accused of giving juveniles marijuana to sell for him has asked the Court to set his case for jury trial. The trial is now set for 2023.
Talitiga Malo appeared in court last week for his pretrial conference. He was represented by Assistant Public Defender...
Washington, D.C. — Monday, Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed a grant of over $400,000 for American Samoa’s Head Start program through the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS).
Specifically, the discretionary grant of $400,891 is directed to the American Samoa Department of...