MIAMI (AFP) -- Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals are no longer for sale after nearly two years available without a deal, principal owner Mark Lerner said on Monday, Feb. 19. Lerner told the Washington Post on Monday,, during pre-season training in Florida that his family will continue to...
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – Police Major Allan de Castro, the prime suspect behind the disappearance of beauty queen Catherine Camilon last year, has been released from restrictive police custody after he was dismissed from the service, the Police Regional Office 4-A confirmed on Tuesday, January...
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – The police officer linked to the disappearance of beauty queen Catherine Camilon has been dismissed from the service, the Police Regional Office 4-A said on Thursday, January 18. CAMILON PRO 4-A chief Police Brig. Gen. Paul Kenneth Lucas signed the dismissal...
Lt. Gen. William Gonzales, former Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Inspector General, formally took over the helm of the Zamboanga City-based Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom) on Friday, November 3. GONZALES (Armed Forces photo) Gonzales, a member of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA)...
PALO, Leyte – It was a bittersweet farewell to the service as Police Major Gen. Arthur Cabalona, deputy commander for the Area Police Command-Visayas, returned to the Police Regional Office-8 (Eastern Visayas) for his retirement honors on Thursday, Oct. 19. “It is with great sadness that I bid...
LOS ANGELES (AFP) -- The Texas Rangers held off a ferocious late rally from the defending champion Houston Astros to claim a 5-4 victory and snatch a commanding 2-0 series lead in the Major League Baseball playoffs on Monday, Oct. 16. The Texas Rangers celebrate after defeating the Houston Astros...
BACOLOD CITY – Major Gen. Marion Sison, commander of the Army 3rd Infantry Division (ID), met Bishop Gerardo Alminaza of the Diocese of San Carlos to strengthen collaboration for peace and development efforts in Negros Island. Sison paid a courtesy visit to Alminaza at the Bishop's Home in...
ILIGAN CITY – Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. and Armed Forces Western Mindanao Command chief Major Gen. Steve Crespillo attended the 633rd founding anniversary of local governance and public administration in Sulu known as Bangsa Sug Day on September 18. DEFENSE Secretary Gilberto C....
Philippine Army (PA) vice commander Major Gen. Steve Crespillo was formally installed on Tuesday, September 5, as the new commander of the Armed Forces Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom). PA spokesperson Col. Xerxes Trinidad, in a statement on Wednesday, September 6, said the change of command...
Major General Steve Crespillo, an experienced combatant who hunted communist rebels in the Cordilleras and Northern Luzon, was appointed as the 17 th commander of the Philippine Army’s (PA) Western Mindanao Command (WestMinCom), the Department of National Defense (DND) bared Saturday, August 26....
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Police Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr. has designated Police Major Gen. Jonnel Estomo as the new head of the Area Police Command-Western Mindanao (APC-WM). Estomo replaced Police Lt. Gen. Vicente Danao Jr. who bowed out of the service on Thursday upon reaching the...
BACOLOD CITY – The Army 3rd Infantry Division (ID) is eyeing to declare Negros Island insurgency free by the end of this year. Major Gen. Marion Sison, 3rd ID commander, guest of honor during the 37th founding anniversary of the 303rd Infantry Brigade (IBde) in Camp Major Nelson Gerona in Murcia,...
