The Quezon City Government has deployed a team of personnel and relief supplies to Davao Oriental following the 7.6-magnitude earthquake that struck the province on Friday, Oct. 10. A total of 15 city employees were immediately deployed on Saturday, Oct. 11, to assist in the ongoing relief and...
Pasay City Police arrested two wanted persons for statutory rape and illegal possession of drugs during a back-to-back operation conducted e on Saturday, Oct. 11. Pasay City Police Chief Col. Joselito De Sesto identified the suspects as Raniel, 36, a pedicab driver, and Kulas, 44. According to the...
A 38-year-old man, tagged as a most wanted person for sexual assault, was arrested by personnel of the Las Piñas City Police after being trailed in Batangas on Friday, Oct. 10. Las Piñas City Police Station Chief Col. Sandro Tafalla identified the suspect as "Jaypee," listed as the no. 6 most...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase "spirits of the dead." "The fact that it was in Latin that really just gave us pause, right?"...
NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a New York federal judge Saturday to dismiss some criminal charges, including the only count for which he could face the death penalty, from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination of UnitedHealthcare 's chief...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The death toll from landslides and floods set off by incessant rainfall in central and southeastern Mexico rose to 37 people on Saturday, authorities said, a sharp increase as thousands of soldiers cleared blocked roads to rescue the missing nationwide. Mexico 's National...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has directed the Defense Department to use "all available funds" to ensure U.S. troops are paid Wednesday despite the government shutdown, a short-term fix that will not apply to the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Gaza ceasefire held in its second day as tens of thousands of Palestinians returned to their neighborhoods Saturday and Israelis cheered Monday 's expected release of remaining hostages. "Gaza is completely destroyed. I have no idea where we should live or...
CAIRO (AP) — Three Qatari diplomats were killed in a car crash Saturday while heading to Egypt 's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, health officials said. Two other diplomats were injured when their vehicle overturned about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Sharm el-Sheikh, the officials said....
McEWEN, Tenn. (AP) — A blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around killed 16 people and left no survivors, authorities said. The explosion left a smoldering wreck of twisted and charred metal and burned-out vehicles at the Accurate Energetic Systems...
Three drug suspects, including two who were caught engaging in illegal gambling during a police patrol, were arrested in separate operations in Pasig City on Thursday, October 9. The Eastern Police District (EPD) identified the two suspects as “Mark,” 39, and “Lester,” 45. They were nabbed...
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora on Friday, Oct. 10, affirmed his support for transparency and honesty in public service as he joined the Mayor for Good Governance (M4GG), a coalition of mayors and other local government officials committed to upholding the principles of good governance and...
