A gold wedding ring was among personal effects found Friday by divers who went down into the wreckage of the Princess of the Stars in the hopes of locating the remains of about 400 passengers believed still trapped inside the ship that sank off Sibuyan Island five years ago.
Customs officials seized P21 million worth of used clothing, or “ukay-ukay,” that have been smuggled into the country.
Sen. Franklin Drilon shrugged off “the next Senate President” title even after a Liberal Party official openly referred to him as such at the 115th Independence Day celebrations here on Wednesday.
Authorities in Southern Tagalog have launched a manhunt for a wanted criminal and his companion who allegedly shot dead a police officer and a Philippine Coast Guard personnel on a boat bound for Puerto Galera in Oriental Mindoro.
They say the best things in life are free but not everyone was happy when the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) gave away free Christian bibles at its freshman activity.
Police on Friday filed charges against 15 gambling bet collectors following an anti-illegal gambling operation in San Pablo City, Laguna.
A high provincial police official recently convicted of protecting a multi-million-peso illegal drug manufacturing operation and sentenced to life in prison is ill and his turn over to the court in La Union that tried his case has been delayed, Cavite police director Senior Superintendent Alexander Rafael said Friday.
The Cavite police has taken custody of Supt. Dionisio Borromeo, the second-highest police official in the province, who has been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for protecting an illegal-drug facility.
The portion of the construction site in Laurel, Batangas, that caved in and left three people dead sits on part of the Taal Volcano Protected Landscape, according to records from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon).
It was one fine day at the height of martial law in the ’70s when Junyee stepped out of his dormitory at the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman and burned all his stuff.
Breaking bad habits and turning them into opportunities to help were how Inspector Lisa Reyes sold the idea of a school supply drive to her colleagues.
An official of the Land Registration Authority was killed in an ambush in Tagaytay City, Cavite, Tuesday afternoon, police said.
A man suspected by the police to be a lawless element was killed when he and a companion engaged them in a gunfight in Sta. Cruz, Laguna, past midnight on Monday.
