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Village chief slain in Davao
By Mindanews on April 10 2012 7:10 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 April) – Authorities have formed a task force that will investigate the killing Sunday night of a barangay chair in this city. Senior Insp. Jessie Jay Francia,… »
Malaybalay serial rapist facing 3rd complaint
By Walter I. Balane on March 16 2012 7:58 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/15 March) – Another rape victim has filed a complaint before the City Prosecutor’s Office here against a suspect who is facing two other charges of rape, police… »
11 LTO agents nabbed, charged in North Cot
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on January 13 2012 4:19 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/13 January) – Eleven agents of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) assigned in Kabacan, North Cotabato have been charged for conducting unauthorized traffic inspection in neighboring Matalam town.… »
‘XRM’ robbers sow fear in South Cotabato
By Bong S. Sarmiento on September 7 2011 6:21 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/06 September) — A series of motorcycle thefts involving only the Honda XRM model has stirred fear in South Cotabato as the still unidentified culprits did not just… »
Gunmen free 2 of 3 people abducted in Lanao Norte
By Mindanews on June 10 2011 7:48 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/09 June) – Two of the three kidnap victims were freed an hour after gunmen abducted them Wednesday in Lanao del Norte, a military official disclosed Thursday. Freed… »
BDO robbers known; police to file raps
By Cong Corrales on May 20 2011 4:39 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/19 May) – Charges will be filed against the suspects in the daylight robbery last week on the Osmeña Branch of Banco de Oro here, Cogon… »
Kidnapped grocery owner freed
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on April 10 2011 10:25 am
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/10 April) — A grocery owner abducted here on April 1 was freed early Sunday morning in Barangay Balanaken, Datu Piang, Maguindanao. Jinkee Lim Yap, 38, was freed… »
Kidnapped? American reported missing
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 24 2011 6:45 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/23 February)—An American national was reported missing and believed kidnapped by unknown persons but police and military authorities said they were baffled by the circumstances surrounding his disappearance.… »
Suspects in attempt to kill anti-mining official known
By Mindanews on February 14 2011 7:14 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/13 Feb) – The Zamboanga City Police Office (ZCPO) has identified four suspects behind the attempt to kill a village chief who is very vocal in his opposition… »
PDEA bags drug syndicate member, 6 others in Zambo and Basilan
By Mindanews on February 7 2011 7:17 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/06 February) – Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) backed by policemen arrested seven persons, including an alleged member of a drug syndicate, in separate buy-bust… »
Sema denies allegations he’s behind trader’s abduction
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on February 6 2011 12:03 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/05 February) – Cotabato City Vice Mayor Muslimin Sema has denied allegations he was behind the January 8 kidnapping of a Filipino-Chinese trader there. The victim, 54-year-old Adin… »
Police link Cotabato City V. Mayor Sema, councilor to kidnappings
By Bong S. Sarmiento on February 5 2011 12:08 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/04 February)— Former Cotabato City mayor and now Vice Mayor Muslimin G. Sema and a councilor are allegedly involved in the series of kidnappings in the locality,… »
Crime on the rise in Malaybalay, volume almost doubled in 2010
By Walter I. Balane on February 4 2011 7:51 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/3 Feb) – Local legislators here were shocked of the city’s crime volume that almost doubled from 2009 to 2010. According to the report of Supt. Erwin Bayani… »
Guard slain in robbery at DBP ATM outlet in Malaybalay
By Walter I. Balane on February 1 2011 12:03 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/31 January) – A security guard was killed, another was seriously hurt, and a bystander was hit when robbers pulled a heist and fled with some P500,000 from… »
NoCot journalists ask police to stop highway robberies in Pikit
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on February 1 2011 12:01 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews) — After one of their colleagues was killed in a highway robbery Saturday night in Pikit town in North Cotabato, journalists in North Cotabato urged authorities to… »
Driver, passenger killed in van hold-up in Pikit
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on January 30 2011 3:03 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/30 January) – Unidentified armed men pulled off a robbery hold-up along the highway in Pikit, North Cotabato, killing the driver and a passenger of a commercial van… »
Evidence on kidnapping of Surigao City banker spoiled: CIDG
By Roel Catoto on January 25 2011 12:01 am
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/24 January) – Shoddy investigation work and even questionable actions of the police have spoiled and contaminated the pieces of evidence in the kidnapping of a Surigao City… »
Village chief opposed to illegal mining shot in Zambo City
By Mindanews on January 23 2011 12:01 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/22 January) — A barangay chairman who is said to be vocal against the illegal small-scale mining activities in his village was reported to be in critical condition… »
16 inmates bolt Cotabato City jail
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on January 21 2011 12:59 am
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/20 January) – Sixteen inmates bolted the city jail through the river behind it at midnight but one was arrested by village guards an hour later. Inmates from… »
Complainant in 7 counts of rape shot dead
By Germelina Lacorte on January 20 2011 12:03 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 January) – A working student who had filed seven counts of rape against a detained suspect was shot dead last Sunday in Davao City. Authorities suspected that… »
Drivers of public utility vehicles with tinted windows warned
By Mindanews on January 17 2011 12:07 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 January) – The ban on public utility vehicles (PUVs) with tinted windows is on. Starting Monday, January 17, the Land Transportation, Franchising and Regulatory Board will apprehend… »
Councilor kills female village chair in Davao del Sur; kills himself, too
By Mindanews on January 16 2011 9:38 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/15 January) — – A female village chair was shot dead by one of her councilors following a heated altercation during a barangay council session in Dimoloc, Malita,… »
P6M worth of prohibited drugs seized in Region 12 in 2010
By Allen V. Estabillo on January 14 2011 6:23 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/13 Jan) – Government anti-drug agents in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao have seized more than P6 million worth of illegal drugs in 548 anti-drug operations that… »
2 killed in Lanao Norte shooting
By Mindanews on January 13 2011 4:38 am
TUBOD, Lanao del Norte (MindaNews/12 Jan) – A businessman and his aide died when four still unidentified armed men barged into his residence in the municipality of Sultan Naga Dimaporo… »
7 kidnappers nabbed in GenSan
By Allen V. Estabillo on January 12 2011 6:01 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/11 Jan) – Police operatives arrested at least seven suspected members of an alleged kidnap-for-ransom gang while they were reportedly plotting a kidnapping operation here Monday afternoon.… »
ARMM LTO official killed inside Zambo hotel; suspects nabbed
By Mindanews on January 11 2011 1:32 pm
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/10 January) — An official of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) was gunned down at the lobby of a hotel… »
NPA claims slain Davao Sur barangay captain tried to fight back
By Germelina Lacorte on January 11 2011 1:31 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 January) — The Communist New People’s Army (NPA) said the barangay captain killed on January 8 in an NPA attack in Barangay Datu Danwata, Malita Davao del… »
Yu’s kidnappers demand ransom
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on January 11 2011 1:29 pm
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/10 January) – Kidnappers who seized a businessman at gunpoint Saturday night at the roadside parking area of the city’s premier hotel are demanding “some amount” for his… »
Bandits surrender in Malungon
By Allen V. Estabillo on January 11 2011 1:28 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/10 January) — At least 12 bandits operating in the tri-boundaries of South Cotabato, Sarangani and Davao del Sur surrendered over the weekend to police and local… »
2 Del Monte guards slain in ambush
By Walter I. Balane on January 9 2011 7:21 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/08 January) – Two security guards of fruit giant Del Monte Philippines were killed in an ambush Tuesday by suspected New People’s Army rebels along the highway in… »
Armed men burn 4 houses, truck in Tantangan
By Allen V. Estabillo on January 8 2011 12:05 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/07 January) – Unidentified armed men stormed a remote village in Tantangan town in South Cotabato around midnight Thursday and burned at least four houses and a hauling truck in the area.
Tantangan Mayor Arnold Garingo said the heavily armed attackers went around the central portion of Sitio Tanting in Barangay Poblacion shortly before midnight and fired several shots on some houses before setting four of them on fire.
Suspected vigilante sued for murder
By Mindanews on January 7 2011 12:04 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 January) — The City Prosecution Office indicted an electrician, whose pistol was linked to eight incidents of summary killings in the city, for the death of a… »
Land-related conflict blamed for shooting of Pacquiao aide
By Allen V. Estabillo on January 6 2011 12:01 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/05 January) – Police investigators in South Cotabato are closely looking at a land-related conflict as behind the daring shooting of a liaison officer of Sarangani Rep.… »
Bishop Cabantan hits mining, criminality in New Year homily
By Walter I. Balane on January 4 2011 7:32 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/03 January) – Malaybalay Bishop Jose Araneta Cabantan centered his homily on mining and rising criminality in Bukidnon, in a mass held on New Year’s Eve at the… »
Mayor's driver sued for New Year's Eve shooting in Isulan
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on January 4 2011 7:30 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/03 January) – Authorities in Sultan Kudarat province today filed homicide and frustrated homicide charges against the driver of a municipal mayor in Maguindanao for wounding a balut… »
Soldier dies, pal hurt in grenade attack in NoCot
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on December 31 2010 12:01 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/30 Dec) – An Army soldier belonging to the 7th Infantry Battalion was killed and another was seriously injured after they were attacked by unidentified motorcycle-riding men while… »
Fake NPAs nabbed for extortion
By Mindanews on December 29 2010 12:01 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/28 December) – Nine persons who surrendered last week as New People’s Army rebels are actually members of an extortion gang operating in the city, police… »
6 slightly injured as blast rips off roof of police camp chapel in Jolo
By Mindanews on December 26 2010 12:03 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 December) – A blast ripped off a portion of the roof of a Catholic chapel inside Camp Asturias, the Philippine National Police camp in Jolo, Sulu at… »
Homemade bomb in Kabacan bus terminal defused Christmas Eve
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on December 26 2010 12:01 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/25 December) — Bomb experts defused on Friday an improvised explosive recovered from a bus terminal in Kabacan, North Cotabato. Athough no one was hurt, the discovery of… »
Security tightened in Shariff Aguak due to Wednesday's blast; no one injured
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on December 23 2010 10:04 pm
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/23 December) — Security has been tightened in Shariff Aguak town following the explosion of an improvised bomb Wednesday morning inside a culvert at the front gate of… »
LGUs in Region 12 urged to designate and train crisis negotiators
By Allen V. Estabillo on December 22 2010 8:51 am
m21nego GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/21 Dec) – Local officials in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao have endorsed the immediate designation and training of at least two crisis negotiators for each… »
Abadiez family plans to hire independent prober
By Roel Catoto on December 21 2010 12:02 am
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/20 Dec) – Dismayed with the finding of the police’s Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) over the controversial death of Rosalyn Abadiez, family members said they are… »
Homemade bomb explodes in Carmen town; no one hurt
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on December 19 2010 12:03 am
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/18 December) – A homemade bomb reportedly thrown from a bus exploded at a mango orchard along the national highway in Carmen, North Cotabato at about 3 p.m.… »
Charges filed vs kidnappers of 8-year old girl
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on December 19 2010 12:00 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/18 Dec) – Four suspects in Thursday’s kidnapping of an eight-year old girl and the killing of her father in Pigcawayn, North Cotabato, have been charged by the… »
Pa killed, daughter abducted in Pigkawayan
By Bong S. Sarmiento on December 17 2010 8:14 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/16 December) — Kidnappers snatched early morning today a businessman’s daughter in Pigkawayan town in North Cotabato, police officials said. Chief Insp. Jomar Alexis Yap, regional Philippine National Police spokesperson, said the three unidentified kidnappers also shot dead 8-year-old victim’s father, Allan Tamayo, when he resisted them.
Trader shot dead in Isulan
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on December 17 2010 8:08 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/16 December) — A trader was gunned down while on her way to a public market in Isulan town in Sultan Kudarat past 6:00 a.m. Monday, belated police… »
2 students of MSU-Marawi kidnapped
By Violeta M. Gloria on December 10 2010 12:06 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/09 December) — Mindanao State University President Dr. Macapado Abaton Muslim has started negotiations for the release of two students who were kidnapped Tuesday inside the school campus… »
Arms seized in raid on house of suspected MILF rebel in Kiamba
By Allen V. Estabillo on December 9 2010 7:05 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/08 December) – Army and police personnel in Sarangani province allegedly seized several rifle and rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) in a raid Tuesday on a house owned by… »
'Stopping Tampakan mine project is justice for my husband'
By Germelina Lacorte on December 7 2010 6:47 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 December) –The widow of a slain anti-mining activist said that if the government could not go after her husband’s killers, she would consider stopping the Tampakan gold-copper… »
3 media workers accuse publisher of rape; suspect denies charges
By Froilan Gallardo on December 5 2010 8:28 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/05 December) – Complaints of sexual abuse and harassment were filed last week before the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in this city against the publisher… »
