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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...
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...
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...
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...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In the latest health advisory, the Health Department asks the public to call the DoH COVID-19 Hotline at 219, if “you or a loved one is homebound and wants to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.”
DOH explained that homebound individuals are those who have limited mobility such...
New York, NY — A new report says people were scammed out of a record-breaking $304 million in the past year after being "catfished."
Romance scams have increased during the pandemic. A new report finds a record-breaking loss of $304 million in 20201 due to these scams compared to $202 million in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A woman accused of burning her boyfriend’s house with the intention of killing him and his father told police that the reason why she planned to murder her boyfriend and his father is to pay back what her boyfriend had done to her many times.
The woman, Navy Patu made...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga, in a memorandum on Wednesday, expressed appreciation and “Fa’afetai Tele Lava” to cabinet members for a successful 2021 Flag Day, which was a scaled down celebration.
On behalf of Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale and the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government and many other local residents will have to wait until next month to see what the US National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) response would be to the Territory of American Samoa’s writ of certiorari petition to the Supreme Court of the...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata again emphasized health infrastructure in a Wednesday hearing of the Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples, stating for the record that LBJ Tropical Medical Center is “in dire need of replacement or repair.” The oversight...