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SENATOR Celina Roberto Babauta submitted a letter of intent to the Democratic Party of the NMI seeking endorsement for her reelection bid in 2026.

REPRESENTATIVE Denita K. Yangetai has introduced House Local Bill 24-37 to rename Isa Drive in honor of Carlos Sablan Camacho, the first governor of the CNMI.

A 38-year-old theft suspect who claimed he served in the “Desert War” in 1996 under the “Salvation Army” was ordered to undergo a competency evaluation after the court questioned the credibility of his statement, noting he would have been only nine years old at the time.

KEVIN Imaikita Esteves, 35, has been charged with assault and battery, disturbing the peace, and contempt of court following a fight with his brother over a t-shirt on Dec. 22, 2025.

ON Dec. 23, 2025, the CNMI Supreme Court denied the Office of the Attorney General’s petition for a writ of mandamus in the case of Willie Carnell Frink, 42, a steward supervisor of a maritime prepositioning ship accused of sexually assaulting a female crewmember in November 2022.

AN inmate in the Department of Corrections’ Outreach Program was identified with suspected chickenpox earlier this month, prompting swift action by Corrections officials and public health authorities.

THE House of Representatives will convene at 1 p.m. today, Monday, Dec. 29, to act on the Senate version of House Bill 24-74, which appropriates $1 million in public land income to the Public School System and the mayor’s offices of Saipan, Tinian, and Rota.

IN respect and remembrance of those who have passed, Reps. John Paul P. Sablan and Danny I. Aquino last week initiated a cleanup project at the Chalan Kanoa cemetery.

(DPS) — The CNMI Department of Public Safety will conduct a sobriety checkpoint on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025, from 6 p.m. to 7:15 p.m., on Beach Road in Garapan, along the northbound lane near the former Joe Bar’s.

THE ratio of U.S. workers to “other workers,” which includes CNMI-only transitional workers in the Commonwealth workforce for tax year 2024, was 77-to-36, the CNMI Department of Labor reported.