A grenade explosion rocked the residential compound of newly elected mayor Amanoden Ducol of Pualas, Lanao del Sur on Friday.

Two persons died when their car rammed an acacia tree along the highway in Barangay Gongogong in San Ildefonso, Ilocos Sur before 5 a.m. yesterday.

A 21-year-old man died when he fell from a mango tree after being electrocuted and was impaled on a metal gate in Quezon City on Friday.

The Valenzuela City government is set to open the newly designed Fatima Avenue, which would admit only pedestrians, in two weeks.

Malabon City Mayor-elect Jeannie Sandoval is calling on other newly elected officials, particularly from rival parties, to work together for their constituents’ welfare.

The vaccination cluster of the pandemic task force in this city is giving away a kilo of rice to those who will get their booster shots against COVID.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is planning to hold special elections in Tubaran, Lanao del Sur on May 24.

Eleven towns in Cagayan elected husband and wife teams, siblings as well as father and son tandems as mayors and vice mayors.

All post-election assemblies and other mass actions held around the country were generally peaceful, the Philippine National Police said yesterday.

A police official is backing proposals to reimpose the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps as a mandatory collegiate program.