CEBU CITY – A regional special investigation task group was created to solve the killing of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo on Saturday morning, March 4. PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. with Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo during the presidential campaign last year. (President Marcos FB) The...
Sad end for aspiring influencer. Abby Choi was just another 28-year-old making the most of social media, posting glam shots related to her work as model. She has since earned more than 100,000 followers on Instagram. Indeed, everything seemed to be going great for her. Her last post on Feb. 19,...
Police arrested a New People’s Army (NPA) leader for murder on Sunday morning, Feb. 19, in General Nakar town in Quezon province. The suspect was identified as Christopher Avellano, 24, a resident of Sitio Pinamaypayan, Barangay Umiray, General Nakar. Avellano was the squad leader of Platoon 2...
BACOLOD CITY – Two of the three suspects in the killing of Don Paulo Teves, brother of Valencia, Negros Oriental Mayor Edgar Teves Jr., and another individual were shot dead late Wednesday night, Feb. 8, hours after they were released from detention. The victims were identified as Tim Moerch, 45,...
BACOLOD CITY – Three persons who were tagged as behind the killing of the younger brother of Valencia town Mayor Edgar Teves Jr. in Negros Oriental were arrested on Monday, Feb. 6. Valencia police chief Major Roger Quijano said over an interview with Radyo Bandera 97.7 Sweet FM Dumaguete...
A man was found guilty by the Edinburgh High Court on Monday, Feb. 6, of murdering a Filipina and her daughter in his home in Dundee, Scotland on March 18, 2021. In a report from Sky News, Andrew Innes, 52, has been jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 36 years for the murder of...
BACOLOD CITY – Police are probing the death of the younger brother of Valencia, Negros Oriental Mayor Edgar Teves Jr. THE body of Don Paulo Teves, younger brother of Valencia, Negros Oriental Mayor Edgar Teves Jr., was found wrapped in a plastic bag and a blanket in Barangay Calayugan, Valencia...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police arrested a 44-year-old farmer tagged as the National Capital Region’s most wanted person in the municipality of Ramon Magsaysay, Zamboanga del Sur province on Saturday, Feb. 4. Major Shellamie Chang, Police Regional Office 9 spokesperson, identified the suspect as Pasig...
The anti-scalawag unit of the Philippine National Police (PNP) has arrested a police officer in Davao City for allegedly killing a colleague having an affair with his wife. In a report on Friday, Feb. 3, Brig. Gen. Warren de Leon, chief of the Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (IMEG), said...
A 53-year-old barangay tanod and a sugarcane plantation worker were shot dead in separate incidents by unidentified assailants in Batangas province on Wednesday, Feb. 1. Barangay tanod Sorbeto Quinto, a resident of Barangay Wawa, Batangas City, was about to enter his house when the suspect...
BACOLOD CITY – The New People’s Army (NPA) has claimed responsibility for the killing of two men in Negros Occidental recently. Police identified the victims as farmer Silas Granada, 65, of Barangay Pinggot, Ilog municipality, and Jose Rammel Europa, 47, of Barangay Camandag, La Castellana...
BERLIN, Germany - A German-Iraqi woman murdered a lookalike she found on social media to fake her own death, police have said as new details emerge of the bizarre case that first came to light last year. The body of a 23-year-old woman was found in a car in August at the Bavarian town of Ingolstadt...
