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Bus falls into creek; 4 dead, 25 hurt
TABUK CITY, Kalinga — Four persons, including a four-year-old girl, were killed and 25 others were injured late Wednesday afternoon when the Tabuk-bound bus they were riding in suffered mechanical trouble and plunged into a creek at Luyucan, Nambaran, this city.
Munggo program of Isabela town bags Galing Pook award
SAN MATEO, Isabela — Dubbed as "black gold," munggo or mungbean as a major summer crop of this town bagged the prestigious Galing Pook Award at awarding ceremonies held over the weekend in Malacañang.
GMA graces rites for Cavite housing project
GENERAL TRIAS, Cavite — The groundbreaking ceremony for the first Cavite mass housing project held last Wednesday in Pasong Kawayan II, this town was graced by President Arroyo and Vice President Noli de Castro.
BI agents fail for the second time to arrest Hollander
STA. ROSA, Laguna — A Dutch national, who is wanted by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) in connection with the complaint by his battered Filipina live-in partner, continued to run rings around BI agents ordered by Commissioner Marcelino Libanan to arrest him.
BI acts on crime rings in Cebu
Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Marcelino C. Libanan yesterday dispatched a team to Cebu City to look into reports that crime syndicates are operating escort services at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA).
DoE probes killer explosion at Cebu town mining site
ARGAO, Cebu — The Department of Energy (DoE) 7 has sent a four-member fact-finding team to Barangay Linot-od, this town, to investigate the methane gas explosion inside a small coal mine here that killed two workers.
5 minors rescued in cyber sex den; 2 maintainers fall
DUMAGUETE CITY— Bayawan City police rescued five minors, including a 13-year-old girl, in a cyber sex joint in Bayawan City in Negros Oriental province.
Bacolod gift shops affected by ‘ukay-ukay’ industry
BACOLOD CITY — Stores and boutiques selling clothes and other garments also sold in so-called "ukay-ukay" stores and "warehouses" have closed shop.
Visayan-speaking top cop rules PNP shooting match
The Visayan-speaking lawyer and chief of the Legal Services Division of the Philippine National Police (PNP) at Camp Crame, Chief Supt. Mario Rupinta San Diego, had ruled the Chief PNP Director’s Shooting Competition Challenge held recently at the PNP headquarters shooting range.
DENR bans transport of logs in Agusan River
BATOHON, Esperanza, Agusan del Sur -- The office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Northeastern Mindanao (Caraga Region) imposed yesterday a ban on the movements of all kinds of forest products in the entire stretch of Agusan River in a move to stop illegal logging in the region.
Students demand justice for rape victim
KIDAPAWAN CITY – Some 500 students of the University of Southern Mindanao (USM), the biggest government-run university in North Cotabato, held a protest rally last Wednesday as they marched from the campus to the municipal hall in Kabacan, North Cotabato.
MILF sets three-day consultation meet in Lanao Sur town
Thousands of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) fighters are expected to join the MILF’s expanded central committee meeting to be presided by Chairman Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim on March 9-11 in Butig, Lanao del Sur to discuss the stalled Mindanao peace process.
2 persons killed, PDEA agent hurt in GenSan shooting
GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- Two persons were killed and an anti-drug agent was wounded in a gun attack last Tuesday night in an outskirt village of this city, police said.
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