GOVERNOR ELOY SONGAO INOS TOUCHES DOWN ON THE LAND OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS HIS HOME AMIDST A CROWD OF OFFICIALS, LAW ENFORCMENT AND THE PUBLIC.  THE PLANE LANDED, A WATER CANNON SALUTE AND THEN IT WAS TIME TO WELCOME HIM.

A SOLEMN ARRIVAL, SILENCE, SOME TEARS, THE MOTORCADE BROUGHT INOS ALONG AIRPORT ROAD TO HIS RESIDENCE AND THEN TO BORJA FUNERAL HOME FOR A VIEWING WITH IMMEDIATE FAMILY. 

A CAR ACCIDENT IN CHALAN KANOA SENDS TWO PEOPLE TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM....EMERGENCY OFFICIALS SAY AN 18–YEAR OLD MALE WAS PINNED UNDERNEATH THE VEHICLE AFTER A DRIVER STRUCK HIM LAST NIGHT ON BEACH ROAD.

AN 18-YEAR OLD CHINESE MALE AND A 23-YEAR OLD CHINESE MALE WERE STRUCK WHILE CROSSING BEACH ROAD TO KANOA HOTEL LAST NIGHT. OFFICIALS SAY THE MEN WERE TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL.

A REPEAT OFFENDER PREVIOUSLY ARRESTED FOR POSSESSING CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE APPEARS IN FEDERAL COURT AND HAS HIS SUPERVISED RELEASE REVOKED FOR VIOLATING HIS PROBATION.

FRANCISCO BASA PREVIOUSLY PLED GUILTY TO POSSESSING AND INTENDING TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE. POLICE SAY BASA CONSPIRED AND SOLD OVER 50 GRAMS OF METH.