Saipan

Attorney Shelli Neal has taken her former employer to federal court, alleging Micronesian Legal Services Corporation violated civil rights and employee‑benefit laws when it denied her maternity leave and refused to enroll her newborn in its health plan.

The FAA and U.S. Air Force are moving forward with plans to install a modern Air Route Surveillance Radar on Saipan, reviving a Cold War‑era site to strengthen regional air defense and traffic monitoring.

Speaking before the Rotary Club of Saipan on Tuesday, Del. Kimberlyn King‑Hinds said her committee priorities and legislative strategy are rooted in a CNMI‑first approach that transcends national politics.

A Saipan-born U.S. Army sergeant who swam for hours through dangerous Pearl Harbor waters to save two people has been awarded the Soldier’s Medal, Del. Kimberlyn King‑Hinds announced Monday.

An ICE detainee who died last month at the CNMI Department of Corrections was the same man accused of attacking a Saipan family who had been helping him translate his immigration paperwork, according to a man injured in the assault.

A social media threat triggered a lockdown at Kagman High School early Wednesday, prompting a coordinated police and school response.

A jealous confrontation inside a Garapan bar escalated into gunfire, threats, and a string of felony charges now facing Longgui “Andy” Yan, who was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail.

Prosecutors say a violent confrontation and a crash outside Paradise Hotel ended in a woman’s death Saturday morning—charges that brought 24‑year‑old Delvin Elieisar Rios into court this week to face a possible life sentence.

Saipan Ice and Water truck driver Jimmy Pallada is facing vehicular homicide and other charges after DPS investigators concluded he failed to yield before a July 23 crash that killed a motorcyclist in Chalan Lau Lau, Saipan.

More than two weeks after a decomposed body was found near Airport Road in Saipan, investigators still have no name for the woman and no clear leads on how she died.