TACLOBAN CITY – A 64-year-old woman was found dead Sunday in Seaside Pier 2, Barangay 3, Catbalogan City, Samar. The victim’s house made of light materials suddenly collapsed due to typhoon “Uwan” while she was inside. Her body was retrieved by the Catbalogan City Disaster Risk Reduction...
TACLOBAN CITY – Philippine National Police chief Gen. Nicolas Torre III led the inauguration and turnover of the new Samar Police Provincial Office (SPPO) building in Barangay Pupua, Catbalogan City, Samar on Monday, June 30. The P29.1-million building was constructed on a two-hectare lot donated...
TACLOBAN CITY - Suspected shabu valued at over P20 million was seized in a checkpoint in Catbalogan City, Samar on Monday, Jan. 27. Police nabbed three suspected drug couriers identified as Mark Balagot, Ace, and Manny, all from Libona, Bukidnon. They were onboard a pickup truck when they...
A big boulder damages this house in Sitio Mahaba, Barangay Basiao, Catbalogan City Samar following a rockslide incident that killed a two-year-old girl and injured three others on Dec. 29, 2024. (Photo: Office of Civil Defense) A two-year-old girl died after being pinned to death when a...
TACLOBAN CITY – A notorious leader of the New People’s Army was killed in an encounter with the 46th Infantry Battalion of the 8th Infantry Division in Barangay Cawayan, Catbalogan City, Samar on Dec. 13. The military identified the fatality as Artemio Solayao, alias Budil,...
TACLOBAN CITY – In a bid to empower individuals to actively contribute to the preservation of crucial marine ecosystems, Catbalogan City in Samar conducted a seagrass planting activity on Sunday, June 16, at Buri Baras Beach. UY (FB) Mayor Dexter Uy emphasized that the hands-on environmental...
TACLOBAN CITY – A 72-year-old woman died in a fire that razed four houses in Barangay 2, Catbalogan City, Samar on Tuesday, February 20. The victim was identified as Jovita Norombaba Lapara. Lapara went back to get her money and other important belongings from the second floor of her house....
TACLOBAN CITY – Bothered by his conscience, a tricycle driver admitted to killing his live-in partner and their two children in a farm in Barangay Pupua, Catbalogan City, Samar, almost a month after the incident on August 30. Suspect Edito Candiz, 42, said he and his common-law wife,...
TACLOBAN CITY – A mother and her two children were hacked to death in a farm in Barangay Pupua, Catbalogan City, Samar, on Wednesday, August 30. Police identified the victims as Rea Oreo, 26; her three-year-old daughter, and her five-month-old son. Victims were found bathing in their own...
Samar State University student Darlene Luzelle R. Uy, who was reported missing on March 23, was found alive near the river bank of the Antiao River in Barangay Canlapwas, Catbalogan City on Tuesday, March 28. This was confirmed by the Catbalogan City Police Station in a Facebook post. The...
TACLOBAN CITY – The family of Darlene Luzelle Uy, a 22-year-old student from Samar State University who went missing on Wednesday, March 22, has offered a P250,000 reward to whoever can provide information about her whereabouts. DARLENE Uy Uy, a student-teacher at Catbalogan I Central...
TACLOBAN CITY – A 31-year-old woman was arrested for large-scale estafa in an entrapment operation in a restaurant in Palo, Leyte on Wednesday, Jan. 25. Authorities identified the suspect as Maria Francesca Macasojot, self-employed, single, and a resident of Canlapwas Poblacion, Catbalogan...
