Rape cases alarm police in Quezon
By Delfin T. Mallari Jr.The number of rape cases is on the rise in Quezon province, ringing alarm bells among police and social welfare authorities.
The number of rape cases is on the rise in Quezon province, ringing alarm bells among police and social welfare authorities.
Two people were killed and one was injured when the truck they were riding figured in an accident in Quezon before dawn Monday, police said.
Summer is about to end, but the lingering image tourists bring home from this corner of Luzon is that of carabaos being treated as celebrities.
One person was killed and three others were seriously injured when a wayward ten-wheel truck rammed a residential house in Tagkawayan, Quezon on Thursday afternoon, police said.
The festive atmosphere here on Wednesday, the feast of the farmers’ patron saint, San Isidro de Labrador, was pure celebration, albeit still commercialized, but showed no more traces of the feverish and divisive election experienced by the country on Monday.
Rampant reports on massive vote buying in different towns in Quezon have been received by the police provincial office in Camp Nakar here, said the spokesman of the Quezon Philippine National Police.
At least 1,500 bikers and runners from Quezon on Sunday joined the military campaign for a safe and clean election.
Indigenous folk from the provinces of Quezon, Rizal and Bulacan are up in arms over the proposed construction of dams in the Sierra Madre mountain range that it is feared would submerge large swaths of forested and agricultural lands.
Police arrested seven suspected guns-for-hire in simultaneous raids in the towns of San Antonio and Tiaong in Quezon early morning Wednesday.
The body of one of the four workers buried in the trash avalanche at a landfill in Rodriguez, Rizal province was discovered under tons of garbage past noon on Wednesday.
A barangay captain of Candelaria, Quezon was shot dead outside his house late Sunday evening, police said Monday morning.
The United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) has taken its senatorial campaign here Friday in an effort to secure the support of some 900,000 registered voters.
House Minority leader and Quezon Rep. Danilo Suarez on Tuesday defended his family from the tirades of President Benigno Aquino during a campaign sortie of the administration senatorial ticket in Quezon province.
