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COTABATO CITY -- As far as the Commission on Elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Comelec-ARMM), preparations for the barangay and SK elections continue, a poll official said.Lawyer Ray Sumalipao, Comelec-ARMM regional director, told DXMS Radyo Bida that as far as his office is concerned the scheduled barangay and SK elections will push through unless officially declared by Comelec national office.Last week, the Comelec through minute resolution no.

GEN. SANTOS CITY -- A police officer here is in hot water after a security guard of a casino he repeatedly threatened filed charges of grave threat, slight physical injury and grave misconduct. Police
Officer 1 Rasel Pepugal Blabagno Jr, assigned with the GenSan PoliceMobile Patrol Unit (MPU), was charged before the Office of the City
Prosecutor in General Santos City by Crispin Bello Ugalde, a

KIDAPAWAN CITY - A member of the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) of the Kidapawan City PNP was seriously wounded when an alleged drug surrenderee shot him just as he was trying to respond to a shooting incident that transpired along the boundary of Datu Ingkal Street and Quezon Boulevard in Kidapawan City, around 10:15 p.m., Saturday.Superintendent Ramel Hojilla, Kidapawan City police director, identified the wounded SWAT member as Police Officer 3 Eric John Dado Yamuta.Hojilla, citing initial probe, said that before Yamuta's shooting, a certain Alvin Taran who is a chainsaw opera

CARMEN, North
Cotabato –- Manhunt had been launched against gunmen who ambushed
and killed a village chairperson here and his aide Friday night in what police
believed was motivated by robbery and personal grudge, police said today.

Chief
Inspector Julius Malcontento, the Carmen town police chief, identified the
slain village official as Renato Ortiz, the chairperson of Barangay Gen. Luna
and his aide and farm caretaker, Rey Nobleza.

COTABATO CITY -- Another fire hits residential areas in the island village of Poblacion 7 (Tukananes) Saturday morning, fire officials said.Fire Officer 2 Aldrin Nara, the spokesperson of Cotabato City Bureau of Fire Protection, said the fire of unknown origin started at 9:44 a.m. at the house of Harison Manalindog, 64.Nara said Manalindog house was made of concrete and light materials.

KORONADAL CITY - Two elementary school children who ask moneyfrom people in the city night market showed they only beg and do not claim what is not theirs.The two children, Jessica Musa, 9 and Soraida Bantilan, 8, were begging for coins at the city night marketwhen they both found a pouch, according to Police Officer 3 Arnel Falcis of Koronadal City Traffic Office.The two girls, residents of Purok Kings, Barangay General Paulino Santos and studying at Marbel I Central Elementary School, said they found the wallet in front of Siomai stall.Falcis said he found the girls' act very noble and

TACURONG CITY --- Gov.

COTABATO CITY --Close to 300 stray dogs had been snared
by the Cotabato City veterinary office in three months of operations meant to
stop the spread of the rabies and protect residents against potentially deadly
dog bites.

Of the number, 20 have been retrieved by
owners, according to Dr. Robert Malcontente, DVM, who heads the city’s
veterinary office.

KORONADAL CITY --– A 44-year-old pedicab driver here is offering a day-long free
ride to anybody within the city as he celebrated his natal day today.

This is my
way of saying thanks for all the blessings and for the gift of life, Dante
Letimas, a resident of Barangay Poblacion here, told w and//www.ndbcnews.com.ph www.ndbcnews.com.ph .

Letimas, a
father of two, has been a pedicab driver the past 15 years, is a pastor of Born
Again Christian sect.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – Joint Elements of 19th Infantry Battalion,and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-ARMM) arrested Friday morning a drug suspect during drug by bust operation in Barangay Lower Caption, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.Arrested during joint drug buy bust operation at 11 in the morning wasDatu Daffi, believed to be peddler of prohibited drugs not only in Datu Odin Sinsuat town but also in other areas of Maguindanao. The law enforcers also recovered twoCal. 45 pistols, a 9 mm pistol, aCal.