SAN NARCISO, Quezon – A 22-year-old farmer was stabbed to death and his companion was injured while walking in Barangay Pagdadamayan here on Thursday night. Police identified the victim as Gerald. Investigation said Gerald and Christian, 22, were walking when a man onboard a motorcycle arrived....
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A worker was killed in an explosion in a rubber farm in Barangay Mangal, Sumisip municipality, Basilan province on Thursday, Oct. 23. Police identified the victim as John Roy Alvarez, 35. Investigation disclosed that Alvarez was working near a rubber tree when the explosion...
CEBU CITY – Observe traffic laws. Authorities issued this reminder following a road accident that claimed the life of a 41-year-old lady judge in Pinamungajan town, Cebu province on Wednesday, Oct. 22. The Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7) said one of the motorcycles involved in the...
DAVAO CITY – Responders on Thursday retrieved the bodies of a couple from the landslide site in Sitio Kipolot, Barangay Palacapao, Quezon town, Bukidnon province. The couple was identified as Ely and Thelma Ubatay, both 60-year-old vegetable vendors. They were swept down the ravine when their...
LEGAZPI CITY – The Diocese of Legazpi condemned on Thursday the killing of radio broadcaster Noel Samar, who died after he was shot by an unidentified gunman on Maharlika Highway in Guinobatan, Albay, earlier this week. "We share in their grief and express our solidarity with all who condemn this...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Greg Gasataya announced that the city government is offering a P100,000 reward to anyone who can provide credible information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the killing of a 17-year-old woman in this highly-urbanized city on Wednesday, Oct. 22....
BACOLOD CITY – The body of a woman was found in a grassy vacant lot at the reclamation area in Barangay 12 on Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 22. Police Capt. Francis Depasucat, head of Police Station 1, said that a passerby who entered the lot to relieve himself discovered the body at 1 p.m. The...
CEBU CITY – A female judge died in a vehicular accident in Barangay Cabiangon, Pinamungajan town, Cebu province on Wednesday morning, Oct. 22. Municipal Trial Court in Cities (MTCC) Judge Carmela Rosario Pasquin, 41, was declared dead when she was brought to a hospital. Police said the judge was...
TACLOBAN CITY – A teacher was shot gunned down by her husband at the Agbanga Elementary School in Barangay Agbanga, Matalom town, Leyte province, on Wednesday. The Matalom Municipal Police Station (MPS) identified the victim as Ellen, 39. Initial investigation said Ellen was being chased by the...
Acting Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Police Lt. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. on Wednesday ordered the start of summary dismissal proceedings against a police corporal tagged in the killing of a barangay kagawad (councilor) and his partner in San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte. Nartatez said that...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Authorities arrested two of the three suspects behind the murder of a village official in Basilan province on Tuesday, police said. Basilan police director Col. Cerrazid Umabong identified the two arrested suspects as Toh Lalung Acalul, 41, and Delpi Suratan, 32, both residents...
CAMP JUAN, Ilocos Norte – A barangay councilor and his live-in partner were gunned down in Barangay 21, San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte, on Sunday. Police identified the victims as barangay councilor Joshua Madamba, 26, and live-in partner, Eloisa Jane Pagaduan, 30, an online accounting staff....
