ZAMBOANGA CITY – A barangay councilor was shot dead in Barangay San Jose, Imelda, Zamboanga Sibugay on Monday morning, May 25. Police identified the victim as Edison Magdamit, councilor of Barangay Gandiangan, Imelda. Magdamit was driving his motorcycle on the highway when another motorcycle with...
ANGELES CITY (AP) – Rescuers pulled out three people Monday from an immense pile of rubble that was all that remained of a nine-story hotel which collapsed while under construction here, bringing the death toll to four with 17 others still missing, officials said. Two of the men were dead, while...
SAN PABLO CITY, Laguna – A 32-year-old woman and her four-year-old son were stabbed to death by a 14-year-old teenage boy inside their house on Sunday night, May 24, in Barangay Del Remedio in this city. Police identified the victim as Maria and Kid. Investigation said their bodies were...
SANTO TOMAS, Isabela – Four persons, including a police officer and a barangay chairman, were killed and four others were injured in a shooting incident during a fiesta celebration in Barangay San Rafael Abajo here on Sunday night, May 24. Police identified the fatalities as Jim, chairman of...
ALICIA, Isabela – Five persons were killed and two others were injured in a three-vehicle collision in Barangay Rizaluna here on Monday morning, May 25. Investigation said a Toyota Avanza allegedly encroached on the lane of an oncoming trailer truck, resulting in a head-on collision. The truck...
BACOLOD CITY – The Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) paid tribute to the late Police Lt. Col. Romeo Vargas who was found dead in his residence in Barangay Handumanan here on May 19. Police Brig. Gen. Romano Cardiño, PRO-NIR director, visited the wake of Vargas at the Bacolod...
BACOLOD CITY – Slain Police Master Sgt. Davy Carampatana was laid to rest in a public cemetery in his hometown in Isabela, Negros Occidental on Sunday, May 24. The La Castellana Municipal Police Station in Negros Occidental headed by Police Major Romulo Gepilango V, police chief, gave full honors...
CEBU CITY – For three packs of shabu and P5,000 cash, three teenagers agreed to gun down a woman in Barangay Calamba here. This was the admission of the assailants who were arrested less than 24 hours after the gun attack happened past 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 21. Two of the culprits...
BACOLOD CITY – A 38-year-old woman was found dead after she went missing in Sitio Capayas, Barangay Sicaba, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Friday, May 22. Police withheld the name of the victim. Police Lt. Daleen Grace Loreno, deputy chief of the Cadiz City Police Station, said the victim was...
CANDON CITY, Ilocos Sur – A 34-year-old man who was celebrating his birth anniversary and his companion were killed in a motorcycle crash in Barangay Tablac here before dawn on Friday, May 22. The victims were residents of Barangay Dan-ar, Santiago, Ilocos Sur. Police said the motorcycle driven...
COTABATO CITY – Police in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) have launched a hunt against two men who shot dead a local radio announcer in the region’s Special Geographic Area (SGA) on Thursday night. Capt. Vilma Dimaraw, chief of the Malidegao municipal...
CEBU CITY – Police found no signs of foul play in the deaths of two children whose decomposing bodies were discovered inside an abandoned car in a garage in Barangay Tuyan, Naga City, Cebu. Police Lt. Col. Dexter Calacar, chief of the Naga City Police Station, said personnel of the...
