CEBU CITY – A man was gunned down exactly a week after he was released from jail here on Friday, Jan. 23. Police said Jason Lendio Yuson was eating at the side of the road in Barangay Mambaling when he was attacked past 2 a.m. A man wearing a hooded jacket and denim pants arrived and shot the...
Personnel from the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) reported finding the body of a man floating in Estero de San Miguel inside Quiapo pumping station, on Friday, Jan. 23. According to the MMDA personnel, they were conducting a waste segregation and trash disposal operation along the...
ILIGAN CITY – More than 100 families were displaced by a fire on Thursday afternoon in Barangay Saray here. The City Social Welfare and Development Office said 114 families were affected by the fire. No casualties were reported but while six persons were injured. Sixty-two houses made of light...
DAVAO CITY – The scheduled change of command ceremony at the Davao City Police Office was aborted midway on Friday morning, Jan. 23. Police Col. Mannan Muarip was expected to relinquish his post to Police Col. Peter Madria, chief of the Police Regional Office-11 Regional Operations Division, at...
ILOILO CITY – After another public outcry, Mayor Raisa Treñas lifted the liquor curfew for the weekend highlight of the 2026 Dinagyang Festival. “We hear you! Sa Dinagyang Festival 2026, wala anay curfew ang taga,” Treñas announced on Friday, Jan. 23. The mayor backtracked on her Jan. 21...
Acting Davao City Mayor Sebastian Z. Duterte and Vice Mayor Rodrigo S. Duterte II officially assumed their posts on Friday afternoon, Jan. 23, during a ceremony at Davao City Hall. Davao City Regional Trial Court Branch 11 Deputy Executive Judge Marie Estrellita S. Tolentino-Rojas administered...
LIPA CITY, Batangas – A 17-year-old missing girl was found dead in a grassy portion of Barangay Sico, this city, on Thursday afternoon, Jan. 22. Police identified the victim as Cris Enustascion. Investigation said the victim 's brother was walking home from school with his friend when they...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Zamboanga City Maritime Police Station seized 1,106 reams of smuggled cigarettes valued at P1.5 million here on Thursday, Jan. 22. The contraband was recovered from an unidentified passenger during port security operations and random baggage inspections. These are in line...
Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso personally handed over two checks for P117.5 million to Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) President Atty. Domingo "Sonny" Reyes Jr. as subsidy for the city-run university during his surprise visit to PLM on Friday, Jan. 23. According to Domagoso,...
BACOLOD CITY - The Bacolod Environment and Natural Resources Office (BENRO) has warned people here against individuals or groups pretending to be garbage collectors and asking for cash donations. BENRO officer-in-charge Allyn Luv Dignadice issued the warning after they received a complaint about a...
A 51-year-old man was arrested on Thursday, Jan. 22, for sexually abusing a Grade 2 student, who was then seven years old, in Barangay Malanday, Marikina City. The Marikina City Police Station identified the suspect as “Piso,” listed as the No. 8 most wanted person at the district level for...
Residents of Barangay San Jose in Antipolo City were left horrified after the discovery of a female human cadaver stuffed inside an abandoned plastic drum on Thursday, Jan. 22. Based on the initial investigation of the Antipolo City Police, several civilians reported spotting a human foot...
