BACOLOD CITY – Suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) killed a 43-year-old laborer in front of his pregnant wife and two children in Barangay Marcelo, Calatrava, Negros Occidental Friday, August 12. POLICE cordon the area in Barangay Marcelo, Calatrava, Negros Occidental where a...
BAMBANG, Nueva Vizcaya – A 43-year-old policeman was shot dead by gunmen onboard a motorcycle here Saturday, August 13. Police Col. Ranser Evasco, Nueva Vizcaya police chief, identified the victim as Police Senior Master Sgt. Aldwin Aspacio James, a Baguio City resident. Evasco, quoting...
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Calamba City, Laguna – A former vice mayor was shot dead Thursday, August 11, in Sitio Cupang, Barangay Tayuman, Lobo, Batangas. Police Capt. Roy Cuevas, Lobo police chief, identified the victim as Romeo Sulit, 61, vice mayor of Lobo from 1998 to 2010. He was the secretary...
ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – Two Basilan Electric Cooperative (Baselco) personnel were killed in a broad daylight shooting in Isabela City, the capital of Basilan, Tuesday, August 9. Police Lt. Col. Junpikar Sitin, Isabela City police chief, said Baseco linemen Alvin Pangilinan, 53, and Reymond...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Authorities are determining if the human rights lawyer in Maguindanao was the intended target when his parked car was shot twice by still unidentified attackers over the weekend. Police Col. Querubin Manalang, city police director, identified Monday, August 8, the owner of...
DAGUPAN CITY -- The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) arrested during a hot-pursuit operation two suspects who allegedly shot to death a boatman at Sitio Calmay Ilokano, Brgy. Calmay in this city on Sunday, August 7. Photo from Pangasinan PPO Police Colonel Richmond Tadina, chief of the...
SAN JUAN, Batangas -- A police officer was ambushed by a motorcycle-riding tandem suspects while on his way to Batangas Police Provincial Office on Sunday afternoon, August 7, at Barangay Calicanto in this town. The BPPO reported that the victim was Police Executive Master Sergeant Romel Mapa...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Lamitan City, Basilan police corrected a spot report Sunday, August 7, stating that a man with the same surname as Ateneo murder suspect Dr. Chao Tiao-Yumol was gunned down in Lamitan City. The Lamitan police had earlier issued a spot report saying that a man with the same...
WASHINGTON, United States -- A Texas jury ordered US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Friday to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages for falsely claiming that the deadly 2012 Sandy Hook elementary shooting was a "hoax." This file photo taken on August 15, 2018 shows a computer screen displaying...
The Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 98 has reset the arraignment of Dr. Chao-Tiao Yumol, the alleged gunman in the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) shooting incident, on charges of three counts of murder, frustrated murder, and carnapping. The hearing of the cases, which was...
The legal counsel of the late former Lamitan City Mayor Rosita “Rose” Furigay on Thursday, August 4, said that they will ensure the conviction of Dr. Chao-Tiao Yumol, the suspect in the Ateneo De Manila University (ADMU) shooting incident last July 24. “If we will follow the latest circular...
TUAO, Cagayan – A former barangay councilor was gunned down by two men riding a motorcycle on NIA Road, Purok 6, Barangay Bulagao here Wednesday, August 3. Cagayan police identified the victim as Fernando Masam, 61, of Barangay Macapil, Piat, this province. Investigation showed that Masam...