The National Capital Region posted the highest number of index crimes (murder, homicide, physical injury, rape, robbery and theft) among the country’s regions in January. During that month, there were more than 5,000 crimes against persons and property in Metro Manila or about 20 percent of the nearly 25,000 recorded index crimes nationwide. Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research
A lawyer was detained at the Manila Police District homicide section allegedly for inadvertently killing a barker who had blocked his daughters’ way.
A neighborly visit to a woman’s house at an ungodly hour proved fatal on Sunday to a 27-year-old automobile repair shop helper who was stabbed dead in a brawl with three other male guests in Quezon City.
Gingoog Mayor Ruthie de Lara Guingona was in a joking mood when the Team PNoy campaign manager, Senator Franklin Drilon, visited her in the hospital Monday.
Cherry Mae Velasco sat quietly outside her grandmother’s house in Barangay 23 Gahub here. A faint smile was plastered on her face while she listened to her younger cousins exchange pleasantries.
The driver of the SUV who rammed a minivan in Florida state in the US last week that resulted in the tragic death of four people, including two siblings from Cebu, is facing four counts of vehicular homicide, media reports said
A man has been arrested for the killing of a fast-food restaurant delivery rider following a traffic altercation early Sunday.
A pregnant woman was jailed Tuesday after her common-law husband bled to death on the way to a hospital after she stabbed him on the thigh during a fight that started with an argument over P10, police said Wednesday.
Four suspects in a Baseco shooting were killed while a barangay tanod (village watchman) was in critical condition after a shootout with police around noon of Easter Sunday in Port Area, Manila.
A village head in Magpet, North Cotabato, came to grief when he realized it was his own godchild he shot and killed after mistaking her for a bad guy outside his house on a particularly dark night because of Mindanao’s frequent brownouts.
A woman reportedly died of gunshot from a robber who she tried to fight with in Manila before dawn Wednesday, police said.
The Sandiganbayan has ordered the arrest of Panglima Estino, Sulu, Mayor Munib Estino on charges of homicide and obstruction of justice that were filed in the Office of the Ombudsman last month.
Two Chicago gang members charged Monday in the death of a 15-year-old honor student mistook her and her friends for members of a rival gang and attacked the group in retaliation for a shooting that wounded one of the men over the summer, according to police.
