MAGALANG, Pampanga — One soldier died and another was injured when a military truck was sideswiped by a passenger bus in Magalang town in Pampanga province Sunday, a military spokesman said.
Maj. Enrico Gil Ileto, spokesman of the Army’s 7th Infantry Division, said the troops were on the way to a counter-insurgency operation when the incident [...]

CONCEPCION, Tarlac — The extension of the North Luzon Expressway and the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway to La Union which was a major project of the Arroyo administration is now being threatened with landgrabbing allegations.
Callled the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway or TPLEX, the highway is an 88.15 kilometer, four-lane travel way, is being built under a build-operate-transfer scheme [...]

PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley — A massive landslide hit the gold-rich mining town of Pantukan in Compostela Valley, killing 36 miners and burying dozens, 44 of whom are still missing.

Governor Arthuro Uy of Compostela Valley said at least 36 bodies had been recovered and rescuers were still looking for 44 people who went missing following the [...]

CEBU CITY – At least three persons were killed as thousands of families were evacuated on Tuesday in Cebu and other parts of the Visayas and the northern parts of Mindanao after a day of nonstop rain.
Weather men said there was no storm on that day but the rains were caused by tail-end of cold [...]

ZAMBOANGA CITY — A Filipino-American boy held captive was released by Abu Sayyaf captors in Basilan province late Saturday, about five months after he, his mother and a cousin were snatched by armed men in Zamboanga City.
Citing sketchy details, the military’s Western Mindanao Command spokesman Lt. Col. Randolph Cabangbang said Kevin Lunsmann, 14, was freed [...]

CEBU CITY – A gold trader in this city has been charged by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) win P2.67 billion tax evasion.
The complaint was filed before the Department of Justice (DOJ) against Junrie Daitol Tenorio, a resident of 2170 Tambis St., Guadalupe, Cebu City.
Tenorio is registered with Revenue District Office No. 82, South [...]

By FRANCO G. REGALA
SAN FERNANDO CITY — The Pampanga provincial government headed by Governor Lilia Pineda has started its five-day celebration of the 440th Aldo Ning Kapampangan (Pampanga Day).
The event, which opened on December 6 to and ends on December 11, will have business tycoon Manny V. Pangilinan, whose roots is in Pampanga, as guest [...]

DUMAGUETE CITY — A member of the Provincial Board questions what he considers as excessive and exorbitant rates of private doctors who perform surgeries in a government hospital like the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital.
Board Member Rodrigo Alanano of the 3rd district raised the concern  based on experience because these poor patients usually approach them to [...]

CEBU CITY – Former Cebu governor Lito Osmeña said he is preparing his son, Mariano “Mimo” Versoza Osmeña, to run for public office either as governor, congressman or mayor of a major city, in the 2013 elections.He is a consultant for firms in New York, Florida, Los Angeles, Beijing and Hongkong, where most of his [...]

ILOILO CITY – An 11-year-old girl from Capiz delivered a baby boy at a hospital in the province of Iloilo.
The minor mom was first brought to the Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital in Roxas City  but because of her critical condition and the lack of appropriate facilities, she was transferred to a hospital in Iloilo where [...]