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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Non-patient cost-share for the medical charter — which is now re-scheduled for Jan. 13, 2021 — is $911 for the one-way flight, according the American Samoa Medicaid State Agency — or Medicaid Office — in a brief announcement late yesterday morning posted on its Facebook...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 33-year-old male who has a pending criminal case in District Court was arrested by police last month on the allegation that he assaulted a drunken man who was sleeping at a bus stop in the Tafuna area and challenged several people to a fight including a security guard...
Washington, D.C. — A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has continued to early next year the complaint filed by former Territorial Correctional Facility inmate James Barlow against the US Secretary of Interior, as the incoming Administration in the nation’s capital will be appointing a new Interior...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 45-year-old man from Nu’uuli who was convicted of driving with a permanently suspended license is going to jail.
Fereti Aleki, who has been in custody since his arrest on Mar. 9, 2020, unable to post a $5,000 bond, appeared in High Court last week where he was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Distribution Task Force has identified four sites that will be used for administering the COVID-19 vaccine, once the vaccination moves to the general public and the Health Department plans to announce when that will occur.
Additionally, individuals interested in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Just a month after the election was held, Rep. Savali Talavou Ale appears to have a majority lined up on his side to retain the House Speaker’s post when faipule for the 37th Legislature are sworn in Jan. 3rd, 2021. However, according to their constituents, three faipule...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Members of the government’s COVID-19 Task Force will remain in place until the end of January 2021, as the Lolo Administration transitions ASG to the incoming administration of governor-elect, Lt. Gov. Lemonu Palepoi Silage Mauga and lieutenant governor-elect Talauega...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At last Wednesday’s cabinet meeting at the Gov. Rex Lee Auditorium, US Interior Department Field Representative Lydia Faleafine-Nomura was recognized by Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga with a Governor’s Resolution — “honoring and expressing profound gratitude” from the out-...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The government has charged a 32-year-old man with unlawful possession of illegal drugs and for trying to break into a store in Fagaima in July of last year. Faasoo Gasetoto, a.k.a “BLOOD” made his initial appearance in District Court last month.
Gasetoto, who has a long...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Even before the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the second vaccine by Moderna Inc. to fight against the coronavirus, the federal government has already allocated more than 2,000 dose of the Moderna vaccine for American Samoa expected to arrive by the end...