Elderly voter dies while waiting for turn to vote in General Santos
By Aquiles Z. Zonio
A 70-year-old voter died when she collapsed while waiting for her turn to vote at the Lagao National High School in Monday afternoon.

A 70-year-old voter died when she collapsed while waiting for her turn to vote at the Lagao National High School in Monday afternoon.

Team PNoy senatorial bets campaigned here on Wednesday with President Benigno Aquino III expected to join them later.

Mindanao and Visayas will experience light to moderate rains due to a low pressure area in General Santos City, the state weather bureau said Wednesday.

A 4.1 magnitude quake struck General Santos City early Monday but there were no immediate reports of damages and aftershocks.

A close-in bodyguard of world boxing champ and Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao was stabbed dead allegedly by the jealous ex-lover of a female friend Sunday night.
Christopher Guarin, publisher and editor-in-chief of the local newspaper tabloid Tatak, was killed last Thursday for personal reasons, the chief of the police in Central Mindanao said Saturday.
The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council has warned of widespread rains over Eastern and Southern Mindanao that may cause flash floods and landslides due to a low pressure area sighted east southeast of this seaport city.
Seven construction workers at the SM City-Gensan sustained varying degrees of injuries when the platform they were using collapsed Wednesday afternoon.
A businessman was injured while his wife died when two suspected hired assassins riding in tandem on a single motorcycle pumped bullets into their car Wednesday along the national highway in Tambler village here.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY—A Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge here issued a writ of habeas corpus for a man wrongfully arrested in what his relatives and neighbors said was a case of mistaken identity in connection with the Maguindanao massacre. Judge Oscar Noel, of RTC Branch 35 here, ordered the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) [...]
GENERAL SANTOS CITY—The Philippine’s first and Asia’s newest, if not most modern, salmon and seafood processing and smoking facility was inaugurated on Tuesday here. The P60-million subsidiary, named Big Glory Bay Salmon and Seafood Company Inc. (BGB), is a joint venture of Prime Foods NZ Ltd. (PFNZ) and Alliance Select Foods International Inc. (ASFII). PFNZ [...]