Bohol mourns as Rep. Aumentado dies

All flags in Bohol were flown at half-staff on Wednesday in honor of former governor and second district Rep. Erico Aumentado, who died on Christmas evening after a battle with pneumonia.

All flags in Bohol were flown at half-staff on Wednesday in honor of former governor and second district Rep. Erico Aumentado, who died on Christmas evening after a battle with pneumonia.
After several postponements, the remains of the late Negros Occidental Representative Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo finally arrived in Manila from London Wednesday night.
The police are looking into “political conflict” as the primary motive for the attempt on the life of a party-list congressman on Sunday afternoon in Marikina City.
A member of Congress was shot and wounded by at least two men Sunday in a subdivision in Marikina City, police said.
Like his former boss, former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Iloilo Representative Augusto “Boboy” Syjuco is crying persecution.
A UP-Ayala Technohub security guard on Wednesday backed out of a human rights complaint he was supposed to file against Lanao del Sur Representative Mohammed Hussein Pangandaman whom he had accused of assaulting him. Ricardo Bonayog surprised investigators of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and reporters when he failed to show up at the [...]
The security guard who was allegedly hit on the head by a legislator has decided not to push through with filing a complaint but still requested for a public apology.
Quezon City Police District (QCPD) director Chief Superintendent George Regis has formed a special investigation team to look into a security guard’s allegation that he was beaten up by Lanao del Sur Representative Mohammed Hussein Pangandaman. The team will be headed by Supt. Jesus Balingasa. The alleged victim, meanwhile, failed to show up for work [...]
A Porsche-driving Philippine lawmaker who punched a security guard during a parking lot altercation has brought Congress into disrepute, a senior legislator said Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES– Porn mogul Larry Flynt offered disgraced US lawmaker Anthony Weiner a job Thursday, after the New York congressman resigned over a tawdry “sexting” scandal. Hustler founder Flynt said he would pay Weiner, who posted pictures of his intimate anatomy to a number of women on Twitter, 20 percent more than what he earned [...]
NEW YORK–”Pervert!” a man cried, as US Congressman Antony Weiner announced amid loud jeering Thursday that he was resigning because he got caught sending lewd electronic pictures of his bulging crotch. Weiner endured insults and finger wagging — but was also cheered by a handful of loyalists — as he told the world he was [...]
NEW YORK—US Congressman Anthony Weiner is set to resign Thursday after being embroiled for weeks in a sex scandal linked to his lewd online exchanges with women, a Democratic Party source told AFP. Weiner scheduled a New York press conference later Thursday at which he will announce his decision to quit, US media said. The [...]