NBI to conclude inquiry on shoplifting slay case
The National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) said it will wrap up its investigation on the death of suspected shoplifter Mario Alfie Ducayag this week.
The National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) said it will wrap up its investigation on the death of suspected shoplifter Mario Alfie Ducayag this week.

With the Boston marathon bombing suspect in a prison hospital, investigators are pushing forward both in the U.S. and abroad to piece together the myriad details of a plot that killed three people and injured more than 260.

Police are looking into several angles in the killing of the live-in partner of Mayor Herminigildo Betonio III of Pio V. Corpus town, Masbate and the wounding of his sister shortly after their arrival in Cebu Monday morning.

It was like a scene from an action movie where cops are portrayed as the bad guys.
CEBU City Mayor Michael Rama wants an investigation into the excavation works done along the Talamban, Pitos and Bacayan road in the north district by a contractor of the Metro Cebu Water District (MCWD).

The family of slain Palawan environmentalist and radio journalist Dr. Gerry Ortega has asked Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II to conduct a full-blown investigation into the death of prosecution witness Dennis Aranas, after an autopsy conducted by the Public Attorney’s Office showed the inmate was murdered and did not hang himself as jail officials had claimed.

The drowning of a tourist in the crater lake of Mt. Pinatubo early this month has raised questions on how a Korean-owned travel firm ensured the safety of its clients and on how the local government of Capas, Tarlac, regulated the firm.

Who’s got the right man? Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said on Monday that the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and Philippine National Police (PNP) had each tagged a different suspect in the death of seven-year-old Stephanie Nicole Ella.

Not just the usual suspects. Sometimes an “order of battle” would include the name of a government official that intelligence reports would link to crimes like drugs and kidnapping.

Convinced that a syndicate is behind rice smuggling in the country, senators want the former head of the National Food Authority (NFA) to answer charges that he “favored” rice importers over domestic farmers as alleged by a disgruntled officer of a rice cooperative.

The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) has distanced itself from a draft report that pointed to pilot error as one of the main causes of the plane crash that killed Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo and two others in August.

Six months before the elections, Muntinlupa Representative Rodolfo Biazon is urging Congress to conduct an investigation on politicians and warlords using “civilian soldiers” as their private armies or bodyguards to maintain their stranglehold in their provinces.

The illegal numbers game “Last Two” digits, which has replaced “jueteng” in many Mindanao areas, is becoming more difficult to combat these days as its operators have gone hi-tech, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group here, claimed.