Elderly voter dies while waiting for turn to vote in General Santos
By Aquiles Z. Zonio
A 70-year-old voter died when she collapsed while waiting for her turn to vote at the Lagao National High School in Monday afternoon.

A 70-year-old voter died when she collapsed while waiting for her turn to vote at the Lagao National High School in Monday afternoon.

A son of a mayoral candidate in Glan town in Sarangani reportedly beat up a volunteer reporter of RMN-Radyo Agong while covering the election at around 9 a.m. Monday.

Ten political supporters of boxing icon and Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao were arrested Tuesday night for allegedly destroying the campaign posters of the Liberal Party-Achievers with Integrity Movement (LP-AIM) here.

Eight-division boxing champ and Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao is banking on his so-called performance and “zero corruption” campaign to pull off wins for his party-mates against formidable election opponents in South Cotabato, Sarangani and General Santos City.

Brownouts in Mindanao are turning deadly, at least to the family of a man who died following an asthma attack at the height of an outage that prevented him from using his nebulizer.

Outgoing Sarangani Gov. Miguel Rene Dominguez bagged the first ever Jesse Robredo Leadership Award (JRLA) given by the Galing Pook Foundation.

Call it sweet revenge. Two motorcycle-riding hitmen died shortly after pumping bullets into their victim.

The Philippine Navy and the Philippine Coast Guard have launched massive search and rescue operations in the high seas off the coast of Surigao and Davao Oriental to look for 315 missing fishermen, who are based in this city.

The killing of two policemen seven hours apart of each other here on Tuesday has sparked an investigation to determine if the killings were related and what the motive or motives could have been.

Three years after the Maguindanao massacre, fear still stalks surviving relatives of the 58 people slaughtered in the worst political violence in the nation’s history.

Police authorities here on Sunday arrested a banana plantation worker on suspicion of involvement in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre.

Hundreds of Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels are marching on a flag-bedecked dirt road leading to their headquarters at Camp Darapanan in Maguindanao to celebrate Monday’s signing of a framework agreement calling for the creation of a Bangsamoro.

Police authorities said on Wednesday they had identified a suspect behind Sunday’s slaying of a close-in security aide of Sarangani Representative and boxing champion Manny Pacquiao.