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MANILA -- A Mindanao lawmaker has proposed to declare January 25 of every year as a National Day of Mourning in memory of the 44 brave and gallant members of the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) who died in Mamasapano, Maguindanao last year.Rep. Zajid G. Mangudadatu (2nd District, Maguindanao) raised the proposal through House Bill 6320, saying the nation should dedicate Jan. 25 every year to remember the 44 brave and heroic members of the Philippine National Police-SAF who died in Mamasapano.

ALEOSAN, North Cotabato – Unidentified
men bombed another transmission tower of the National Grid Corporation (NGCP)
in Aleosan, North Cotabato Thursday night but the steel tower was not toppled,
police said.

The two improvised explosive devices
that went off at 11:58 p.m. damaged two legs of NGCP Tower No. 63, according to
Senior Inspector Jun J. Napat, Aleosan town police chief.

The tower remained standing, the
blasts only damaged two of its four feet,” Napat said.

The incident also did not trigger
outage,” he added.

KORONADAL CITY –-
Police hauled Thursday night five persons, including an ex-police officer,allegedly engaged in illegal drug activities
during a buy bust operations in Barangay Gen. Paulino Santos here, police said.Newly installed city police director,
Supt. Barney Condes and Dr. Glorio Sandig, action officer of Koronadal City anti-drug
abuse council, led the operation at past 10 p.m. in Purok Ycon. A police asset served as poseur buyer confirmed the existence of prohibited drugs that led to the operation.
Condes identified the

KORONADAL
CITY – Police authorities here have arrested over the weekend three
men long wanted by law for a string of robbery cases in South Cotabato, police
said.
Senior
Inspector Timonthy Arciso, chief of Criminal Investigation and Detection Team (CIDT)
in South Cotabato, identified the suspects as Hernito Tuan Ungkal, 50 Robin
Fann Maan, 60, and Archie Sulan, all residents of Barangay Tubi-Allah,
Surallah, South Cotabato. Arciso
said Ungkal was the leader of Buroy robbery group responsible in the series of big

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Police operatives here have arrested an 18-year-old boy for carrying an unlicensed firearm as police and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) commenced the implementation of election gun ban.DXND-AM Radyo Bida reported that police officers manning checkpoints along a highway in Kidapawan City and conducting Oplan Sleepless Nights flagged down Dan Monteverde Pounes of Barangay Bagumbayan, Tulunan, North Cotabato.Upon inspection, a cal. 45 pistol with four bullets was seized from him.

COTABATO CITY – The Regional Board of Investments in theAutonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (RBOI-ARMM) is expecting to draw more investments this year.Atty. Ishak Mastura, RBOI-ARMM chairperson, said the agency is targeting to generate at least P900 million worth of investments and 900 new jobs in 2016, conservative figures considering what the regional government has achieved last year.RBOI-ARMM posted P6.5 billion worth of new projects in 2015, way over its original investments target of only P700 million announced early last year.

COTABATO CITY -- The Cotabato Light and Power Company (Cotabato Light) today announced it has scheduled rotational power interruption due to limited supply from the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). There's a probability of 1-2 hours of rotational interruption in all feeders during peak hours due to limited supply allocation today of21.6 megawatt only, Arlene Hepiga, Cotabato Light branding and corporate communication staff, said in a statement.Power demand for Cotabato Light franchise is 25 MW.

Reading 1 and//usccb.org/bible/readings/bible/1john/4:11 1 JN 4:11-18 Beloved, if God so loved us,we also must love one another.No one has ever seen God.Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us,and his love is brought to perfection in us.This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us,that he has given us of his Spirit.Moreover, we have seen and testifythat the Father sent his Son as savior of the world.Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,God remains in him and he in God.We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us.God is love, and whoeve

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COTABATO CITY - The Department
of Health (DOH) in Central Mindanao today reported 125 cases of firecracker
related injuries during Christmas and New Year’s revelry and is counting,
health officials said.

Jenny
Panizales-Centura, focal person of DOH-12 Iwas Paputok,” said the number may
increase as DOH monitoring of firecracker related injuries is until Jan. 5.