2 men with gunshot wounds found dead in Batangas
By Marrah Erika Lesaba
Two men who bore bullet wounds in the head and chest were found dead in Barangay (village) Sta. Ana Elena, San Pascual, Batangas on Thursday morning.
Two men who bore bullet wounds in the head and chest were found dead in Barangay (village) Sta. Ana Elena, San Pascual, Batangas on Thursday morning.
A fire razed the Department of Agriculture (DA) region 10 field office in Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Thursday afternoon.
The body of a still unidentified woman was dumped into a cliff by two men early Thursday along the Transcentral Highway in Balamban town, about 64 kilometers west of this city.
“Toby” Tañada Jr. has contested his defeat as the representative of Quezon’s fourth district, asking the Commission on Elections to credit to him the votes cast for a disqualified candidate that shared his surname.
The police on Tuesday confiscated a large volume of methamphetamine hydrochloride or “shabu” estimated to be worth P250,000 on Boracay Island, one of the biggest drug busts in Western Visayas in recent years.
A soldier was killed and several others wounded when a military truck and a passenger bus collided in Ilocos Norte before dawn Thursday, police said.
Private sector workers in the two Agusan and Surigao provinces and their component cities got a post-election gift in the form of the P10-minimum wage increase that the Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Caraga region has approved.
The government is shoring up its peace-building efforts in Mindanao with the release of P42 million to the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC).
Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II reiterated Wednesday that police only followed the standard operation when they tried to chase a group of armed men who allegedly sought refuge in the residential compound of Senator Ramon Revilla Jr. on Election Day in Bacoor City, Cavite.
Unidentified armed men, in what initially appeared to be a robbery, killed a retired government official whose career started in 1986 when he was appointed this town’s officer-in-charge mayor by the late president Corazon Aquino in the aftermath of the Edsa Revolution.
The Sandiganbayan convicted former municipal mayor of Dapitan City for pocketing close to P1-million in confidential intelligence funds from 1998 to 2001.
The children of slain Kabankalan Judge Henry Arles on Tuesday filed a motion for reconsideration with the Department of Justice, seeking a reversal of its dismissal of a murder complaint against Negros Occidental Vice Governor Genaro Alvarez Jr., his son, Ilog Mayor John Paul Alvarez, and Cauayan Vice Mayor Jerry Tabujara.
Suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf Group abducted a Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) employee early Wednesday, police said.
