A police officer was being investigated for allegedly harassing a businessman because the latter refused to support the officer’s wife, who is a vice mayoral candidate here, the police reported Monday.
Police arrested 18 people onboard a convoy of motorcycles and a government-owned truck after they yielded firearms when flagged down at a poll checkpoint in Malita, Davao del Sur Monday.
Unidentified armed men tried but failed to snatch the father of reelectionist Mayor Joseph Peñas on Tuesday, the police reported.
DIGOS CITY, Philippines—A man from Nebraska was killed in a traffic accident in Sinawilan village here Thursday morning. Police Officer 2 Roderick Butulan, investigator at the Digos police traffic section, said Andrew Hart, 63, was driving his car when it collided with another car. Hart was from Omaha and was temporarily residing in Lanang in [...]
Two members of the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit under the 72nd Infantry Battalion were injured when four men fired on them in Kiblawan town, a report reaching the Davao del Sur police office said Saturday.
The leader of a group of B’laan natives waging war against the copper and gold mining project of Xstrata’s Sagittarius Mines Inc. confirmed Thursday that his brother was killed in a raid by government soldiers on Tuesday and called the operation an act of betrayal as their surrender was being arranged.
At least 15 houses on the shoreline of a coastal village in Don Marcelino town, Davao del Sur were damaged Monday night after being battered by huge waves churned by Typhoon “Pablo,” the provincial disaster response office said Tuesday morning.
The wife and two young children of a B’laan leader opposed to the entry of Xstrata’s Sagittarius Mines Inc. in South Cotabato and Davao del Sur were killed in what the military claimed was a firefight between a group of tribal ‘bandits’ and a combined force of Army soldiers and policemen early Thursday morning.
Ignoring the Third Commandment, politicians go to church, claim to have received God’s mandate, and proceed to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to file their certificates of candidacy (COCs).
The illegal numbers game “Last Two” digits, which has replaced “jueteng” in many Mindanao areas, is becoming more difficult to combat these days as its operators have gone hi-tech, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group here, claimed.
Police authorities, acting on separate tips, rescued two men – who claimed they were earlier abducted in Koronadal City by unidentified men – before daybreak Tuesday.
Army-backed policemen began a hunt Tuesday for a group of B’laan natives blamed for a series of attacks on Sagittarius Mines Inc. whose operations they claimed were encroaching on and damaging their ancestral domain.
Kiblawan Mayor Marivic Diamante said Thursday she has asked for the pullout of policemen helping secure the facilities of Xstrata’s Sagittarius Mines Inc. here and their replacement by the Army.
