CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The National Irrigation Authority in Northern Mindanao (NIA-10) has committed to cooperate fully in the investigation into the killing of its former employee, a case that has drawn national attention after a resolution was filed in Congress to probe the death. In an...
ILOILO CITY — The crime rate in the first nine months of the year in Western Visayas dropped by more than 200 incidents. A report released by the Police Regional Office-6 said 14,380 criminal incidents were recorded from January to September, 209 lower than the 14,589 recorded during the same...
CEBU CITY – A driver of a ride-hailing app was believed to have been robbed before he was killed by his passenger in Barangay Kalunasan here on Sunday morning, Oct. 12. Dexter Nanong Dandan, 48, was found slumped on the ground with multiple stab wounds in the abdomen. Police said a 17-year-old...
COTABATO CITY – Two men on a motorbike killed a village councilor of Ampatuan town, Maguindanao del Sur province and his son on Monday morning. Police Lt. Col. Jopy Ventura, spokesperson for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region police, said Barangay Kapinpilan Councilor Abusama Agao and his son,...
A former employee of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA)-Region 10 known for speaking out against corruption in the agency on social media was shot dead in Cagayan de Oro City on Friday, Oct. 10. Police identified the victim as Niruh Kyle Antatico, 40, married, and a Juris Doctor graduate....
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – Police arrested three men for allegedly shooting a truck driver during an altercation in Barangay Tabuating, San Leonardo town, Nueva Ecija province on Friday afternoon. Police Col. Heryl Bruno, Nueva Ecija police chief, said the suspects, aged 20, 25, and 51, confronted...
CANDELARIA, Quezon – A couple was beaten to death with a steel pipe on Thursday morning, Oct. 9, in Sitio Tubohan, Barangay Buenavista West, this town. Police identified the victims as Bandido,59, farmer, and Luz, 58, vendor. Investigation said Bandido was about to open their store when the...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested a 40-year-old man in Barangay Azagra, Tanjay City, Negros Oriental on Tuesday for allegedly raping a deaf-mute girl multiple times. The suspect, a resident of San Jose, Negros Oriental, faces four count of qualified rape with no bail recommended. Police said the...
TACLOBAN CITY — A laborer allegedly killed his 77-year-old mother for failure to prepare dinner for him on Tuesday in Sitio Riverside, Barangay Macupa, Leyte, Leyte. The suspect, Rick, 35, was apprehended in a hot-pursuit operation in Barangay Belen, Leyte, Leyte. Investigation said the suspect...
CEBU CITY – A 43-year-old teacher was brutally killed by her live-in partner, a lesbian, following a heated argument in their home in Barangay Tubod, Minglanilla town, Cebu province on Monday night, Oct. 6. Melanie Lee Lastimosa, a teacher at the Lawaan Elementary School in Talisay City, Cebu,...
BACOLOD CITY – A 63-year-old former barangay captain was shot dead in Sitio Tunga, Barangay Patun-an, Calatrava, Negros Occidental on Monday, Oct. 6. Police said the victim Alex was driving a motorcycle on his way home when he was shot in the waist by an unidentified person on board a motorcycle....
MIDSAYAP, North Cotabato – A female municipal councilor in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) and her husband were wounded in a daylight ambush here that left two dead and another resident wounded on Tuesday, police said. Police Lt. Col. Oliver Pauya, municipal police...
