Tinian resident Francisco “Frank” Mendiola, 49, said his whole body went numb when he first heard that his son, the late U.S. Army Specialist Hanson Mendiola, was brought to the intensive care unit and passed away in Texas on July 22. His son was 29. “It was so hard and painful...

Saipan Southern High School Manta Ray Band brought new pride to the Commonwealth after it a bagged silver award in the London Celebration Music Festival held last Friday in the actual 2012 Summer Olympics site. The band’s musical director and conductor Will DeWitt confirmed...

When Jershwin Angeles, a Commonwealth-only worker permit holder, applied for parole to travel to Guam earlier this month, he said he was told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services-Saipan office to apply for a $360 advance parole but when he did, his application was denied...