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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Samoa government owned MV Fotu-O-Samoa was at the inter island dock yesterday morning upon arrival from Apia, with cargo only and no passengers.
The vessel was scheduled to sail to Manu’a either late Thursday afternoon or night with urgent supplies and other cargo...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An ASG task force has been appointed by the governor to provide a plan for preparation and response by American Samoa to the deadly global coronavirus, which has prompted Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga to cancel the upcoming Polynesian Leaders Group meeting and scale back...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has issued another 30-day extension to his original State of Emergency Declaration saying that the “measles remains a threat to public health as well as the global outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus.”
In the extended declaration order,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 32-year-old father of 3 young children that was convicted of importing a controlled substance, to wit; marijuana into the territory in April of 2018 was ordered to serve an imprisonment term of 20 months at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) and pay a fine...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “You need to finish school and graduate this year because if you’re not going to graduate, you’re in violation of your 12-month probation, and you will be sent to jail for up to 12 months. Make sure you abide with all the conditions of your probation including the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At Tuesday afternoon’s briefing at the Emergency Operations Center, American Samoa Power Authority reports that there are now 11 individual families — down from the initial 25 — still without power due to damage on the customer side as crews continue restoration response...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A domestic violence case came before District Court last week for sentencing and District Court Judge Elvis P. Patea told the male defendant that he court doesn’t take these cases lightly.
He told the defendant that a week doesn’t go by without these cases coming before...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The government is going forward with their case against Faavae Solomona even without what could have been one of their strongest pieces of evidence, the results of a DNA test.
Investigators recently discovered that the sample for the DNA test that was sent over to the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With approval of Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga, the LBJ Medical Center has written off from its financial books, all unpaid and outstanding amounts of the ASG subsidy owed to the hospital, allowing the LBJ to move forward with its “cost reporting” for the Centers for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man from Samoa pled guilty last week to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl over a span of nearly five months.
Polani Taumaloto, 24, is an overstayer who was initial slapped with 8 felony charges — two counts of rape, two counts of sodomy, and 4 counts of sexual...