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KORONADAL CITY -- A 4-month old baby miraculously escaped unharmed in a highway mishap here Tuesday afternoon that left five persons injured, traffic investigators said.Involved in a 3:30 p.m.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – The provincial prosecutor in North Cotabato has found probable cause to indict a state-run college president for keeping unlicensed firearms and illegal drugs when anti-drug personnel searched his cottage in Arakan town, three months ago.Charged was Dr.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – After a year in hiding, authorities arrested here on Monday the suspected killer of the municipal agriculturist of Arakan, North Cotabato, police reports said.Senior Inspector Jun Napat, officer-in-charge (OIC) of the Arakan PNP, identified the suspect as Caesar Mangawan, also known as Boy Dawag, who, according to witnesses, was a gun-for-hire.Mangawan was accused of killing Arakan municipal agriculturist Edgar Arana in November 18, 2017.Aside from facing murder, Napat said the suspect is involved in robbery by band with two homicide cases under Criminal Case Number 4198-

Cotabato Light and Power Companywill be available to serve its customers on June 20, 2018, Wednesday, declared asspecialnon-working holiday,in celebration of the Araw ng Cotabato. CLPC's collection and customer related transactions at Sinsuat Avenue, Cotabato City will be open from 8and00 AM to 4and00 PM with no noon break. Meanwhile, forpayment options, customer can proceed to Cotabato Light's different TPA agents - ECPAY, Cebuana, CIS Bayad Center, Mlhuillier and SAVEMORE (CityMall).

GEN. SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao – An Army colonel and his buddy have been doing two things almost at the same time, that is running after IS linked terrorists in the Maguindanao marshland and brokering warring families to smoke the pipe of peace. The military here facilitated the settlement of a 20-year-old Muslim clan war that already claimed the lives of a dozen persons from both sides.It was historic and sweet as it came during the Eud’l Fitr or the end of fasting month of Ramadhan.

DATU ODIN
SINSUAT, Maguindanao – Anti-narcotics operatives, police and military
personnel arrested today a Maguindanao lady public school teacher and three
other companions during drug buy bust operation that led to the recovery of about
P6.8-million of suspected shabu.

MAGUINDANAO - The 2018 Eid’l Fitr was the fourth where Muslims in central Mindanao prayed in the Army’s Camp Siongco and were served with food prepared by Christian soldiers who celebrated the event with them.The celebration of the Eid’l Fitr on Friday marked the culmination of the Islamic Ramadhan fasting season, which lasts for one lunar cycle, or about 28 to 29 days, where Muslims fast from dawn to dusk as a religious obligation and reparation for wrongdoings.The Camp Siongco, located in Datu Odin Sinsuat town in Maguindanao, is the command center of the Army’s 6thInfantry Division, acti

KORONADAL CITY - A couple and two students of a public school here were separately arrested by the City Andit-Drug Abuse Council (CADAC) operatives following drug buy bust operation.Dr. Glorio Sandig, CADAC action officer, said Carl Renza Dumalog and his live-in partner, Ariana Pagod were arrested during the 2 p.m. operation in Agan Est, Barangay Sta Cruz, Koronadal City.The suspects, both boarders, were nabbed after they handed over a sachet of suspected shabu from a poseur buyer.

Cotabato Light and Power Company is open on Feb. 15, a holiday

KIDAPAWAN CITY – A55-year old husband shot dead his own wife after a heated argument while inside the family’s compound at Purok Rosal in Poblacion, Matalam, around 6 a.m., Tuesday, police reports said.Senior Inspector Sunny Leoncito, chief of Matalam Police, identified the slain wife as Evelyn dela Torre-Belgira, 54, employee at the Matalam municipal government.Also dead was a certain Miraluna Brigole, 27, who worked as laborer in the Belgira’s family.Brigole, according to Leoncito, was a member of the Lesbian-Gay-Bi-Transgender (LGBT) family.Wounded were Evelyn’s father, Eduard dela Torr