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(SAMHSA) — The Disaster Distress Helpline, at 1-800-985-5990, can provide immediate counseling to anyone experiencing emotional distress in advance of Typhoon Storm Bavi, forecast to impact Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. An event like this can have an enormous impact on …

All four major weather agencies — the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, National Weather Service Guam, Japan Meteorological Agency, and the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts — continue to indicate that Tropical Storm Bavi (09W) is expected to strengthen significantly as it moves toward…

FEMA disburses money to states and local communities because they are best positioned to know how these funds will be most effectively spent.

The governor said people across the islands have already begun preparing for possible impacts. Based on current projections, he said, the storm is likely to affect the entire Marianas, including Guam.

The CNMI’s current financial condition requires prompt realignment of spending to ensure expenditures remain within available resources and to support a stable and sustainable fiscal future for the Commonwealth.

“It’s the federal government’s policy that is being followed, not ours,” he said. “That is not our policy; we are following the U.S. government’s policy.”

THE CNMI Nutritional Assistance Program is seeking an extension from the U.S. Department of Agriculture beyond the current seven-day Disaster NAP implementation window, according to Department of Community and Cultural Affairs Secretary Francisco Rabauliman.

ANGEL Paras Cruz Jr., owner of Villa De Cruz Apartelle and World Electric & Construction Co. Inc., was sentenced to a three-year term of probation and a 12-month term of home detention after pleading guilty last year to three counts of visa fraud in federal court.

CHARLSTON Yamada Aiken, 44, who was sentenced Wednesday to concurrent jail terms for assault and battery and disturbing the peace, may be released after prosecutors acknowledged he has already overserved his sentence.