Lawyer detained for death of transportation barker in Manila
By Erika Sauler
A lawyer was detained at the Manila Police District homicide section allegedly for inadvertently killing a barker who had blocked his daughters’ way.

A lawyer was detained at the Manila Police District homicide section allegedly for inadvertently killing a barker who had blocked his daughters’ way.

A retired government employee lost some P4 million in jewelry and valuables to burglars who broke into their home on Sunday afternoon in Quezon City.

It could be Christmas in May for more than 5,000 regular Quezon City hall employees who will be paid their mid-year bonuses before the end of the month.

The Court of Appeals stopped the Quezon City regional trial court from acting on a case filed against a drug suspect five years after her arrest.

Fernando Garcia of Marikina City thought he got a bargain when he recently bought a second-hand refrigerator. But instead of cooling things down, the Japan-made refrigerator apparently started a fire that cost Garcia his entire house on Russet Street, SSS Village in Barangay Concepcion II early Saturday.

To make way for a weekend art fair called “Sining Kalikasan sa Reposo,” which is part of the celebration of the 343rd Foundation Day of Makati, the city government will close one lane of Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street) from May 18 to 19.

Agents of the Bureau of Customs on Friday seized P25 million worth of allegedly smuggled cigarettes and condiments during a raid on a warehouse in Tondo.

A policeman going home from work on Thursday night in Quezon City was gunned down by motorcycle-riding assailants, who also shot and wounded two other persons, one of whom had tried to stop them, police said.

A sales agent was jailed for two days and was finally charged with theft in a Quezon City court on Wednesday for allegedly keeping a wallet supposedly containing P27,000 that he is alleged to have picked up after a TV network executive producer dropped it while shopping for appliances at a supermarket in Cubao.

Six people were injured on the ground after they were hit by debris from the upper floor of a hotel in the Ortigas Business District in Pasig City Wednesday night, according to authorities.

The fire that broke out late before dawn Thursday in Divisoria Mall is still raging Thursday afternoon, and fire fighters said it will take two days to put out the blaze.

A Task Force Charlie alarm has been declared over the fire that gutted a portion of Divisoria Mall in Manila at the first hour of Thursday, a city fire officer said.

Even the Binays and the Estradas could not stop the Grace Poe juggernaut.