A live-in couple was arrested after allegedly conspiring to sell a suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride, or “shabu,” to a poseur-buyer in General Santos City, a Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) official said Wednesday.
Relentless rains for the past few days led to flooding in 15 villages here and in Sarangani and South Cotabato provinces.
Two junior police officers suspended for preventing the arrest of two men, including another policeman, due to extortion raps found themselves in deeper trouble.
Police are investigating the link between a car bombing here and the unabated operations of extortion gangs.
The driver of a passing tricycle was slightly injured when a sports utility vehicle parked in front of a hardware store here exploded on Tuesday night, the police said.
The City Prosecutor’s Office here junked the P18-million libel suit filed by a friend of world boxing champion and Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao against a local journalist.
A 38-year-old woman, her three children and househelp died in a fire that swept through their house at the Gensanville Subdivision in Barangay Bula here early Thursday, the local fire department said.
Three police station commanders from General Santos City have been removed from their posts for their alleged failure to stop illegal gambling in their areas of responsibility, a Philippine National Police spokesman said Tuesday.
Two broadcasters scored a legal victory when the libel charges brought against them by the chief of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) office here were thrown out by a judge and a government prosecutor.
The alleged mastermind of the 2008 murder of journalist Dennis Cuesta in General Santos City is plotting to kill the slain journalist’s wife and two other persons, according to the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP).
For cutting down 69 fully grown neem trees (Azadirachta indica) without a permit from concerned government agencies, the principal of a public elementary school in General Santos City found himself the subject of a complaint from a barangay (village) official.
Police are looking at a personal grudge as the motive behind Friday’s ambush of Tatak publisher and editor in chief Christopher Guarin.
Wounded in the first burst of gunfire, Christopher Guarin jumped out of his car apparently to make sure his wife and daughter, who were with him, would not be hit by any bullets. He didn’t get very far.
