PIDDIG, Ilocos Norte – A widower and her son were gunned down by a security guard in Sitio Nagbukel, Barangay San Antonio, this town, on Sunday, Oct. 26. Police identified the victims as Maria Theresa Dansalan and her son, Jasper, a pharmacist, residents of Solsona, Ilocos Norte. Investigation...
LOPEZ, Quezon – A soldier was killed and three colleagues were injured in a collision between their motorcycles and a bus in Barangay Talolong here before dawn on Monday. Police identified the fatality as Nico and the injured as Emer, Erwin, and Reynaldo. The victims are assigned to the 85th...
BACOLOD CITY – A 17-year-old girl found hogtied and lifeless in a vacant grassy lot in Barangay 12, this city, died from asphyxia by ligature and tested positive for sexual assault, police said. Police Capt. Francis Depasucat, head of Police Station 1, said the autopsy report indicated that the...
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – A man allegedly with mental health issues stabbed a passenger to death on board a provincial bus in Barangay Pinagpanaan, Talavera, Nueva Ecija, on Saturday night, Oct. 25. Police said the bus conductor was unloading cargo near a bridge when the suspect suddenly stood up...
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...