Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez took over as acting mayor of this city on Thursday, after Mayor Benjamin Lim suffered a stroke and was brought to Metro Manila for treatment.
Unidentified armed men tried but failed to snatch the father of reelectionist Mayor Joseph Peñas on Tuesday, the police reported.
Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza issued on Monday a cease and desist order against the operation of the Yellow Submarine and suspended the business permit of its operator, the Cebu Yellow Submarine Undersea Tour Corp, after its undersea vessel smashed a coral reef off Mactan.
Four persons were killed while six others, including the mayor of Nunungan, Lanao del Norte, were wounded after being ambushed by unidentified armed men Thursday evening.
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.
Military and police units have been sent to go after a group of New People’s Army (NPA) rebels, which allegedly opened fire at the convoy of Gingoog City Mayor Ruthie Guingona, wife of former Vice President Teofisto Guingona, and killed two of her aides.
Senator Teofisto Guingona III blamed the New People’s Army for the assassination attempt on his mother, Gingoog City Mayor Ruth de Lara Guingona on late Saturday.
Pagadian City Mayor Samuel Co, who has been slapped with an arrest warrant for his alleged role in the Aman Futures investment scam, has been rarely seen in Pagadian these days but he has not been hiding, the executive’s lawyer said on Wednesday.
Much ado over “education vouchers.” The political rivalry in Taguig city is in full swing once again, this time, with the word war circling around the P5,000 “education vouchers” the incumbent administration has been distributing to the city’s public high school graduates.
The police chief and three policemen of Pulupandan town in Negros Occidental were relieved Tuesday for allegedly acting as escorts of Mayor Magdaleno Peña when he went to the Provincial Capitol in Bacolod City on Monday to challenge provincial official to a boxing match.
Tension remained high in Imus City as two officials insisted on their right to be the mayor.
San Francisco Mayor Aly Arquillano said mayors of Camotes Islands’ four towns are solidly behind the candidacy of Liberal Party (LP) gubernatorial candidate Junjun Davide III.
