Criminal charges were filed against a man who was arrested in Pasig City for alleged “sextortion” in Pasig City, the police Anti-Cybercrime Group said yesterday.

A bettor in Las Piñas City won the Mega Lotto 6/45 jackpot in Monday’s draw, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office said yesterday.

A former teacher of a school for lumads was arrested in Tandag, Surigao del Sur on Sunday.

A suspected bombmaker of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) was killed in an encounter with soldiers in Maguindanao on Monday.

Three motorcycle riders were killed in an alleged shootout with police manning a checkpoint in Nueva Ecija on Monday night.

A soldier was killed and five others were wounded after New People’s Army rebels detonated anti-personnel mines while government troopers were conducting community support programs in Catubig, Northern Samar yesterday.

A female election officer was gunned down outside a satellite office of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Isabela City in Basilan yesterday.

The Sandiganbayan has denied the bail plea of a private supplier charged for the alleged “vehicle repair scam” at the Department of Public Works and Highways in 2001.

A man was arrested after accepting a parcel, which contained 2,984 tablets of party drug Ecstasy worth P5.07 million, during a controlled delivery operation in Cebu City on Monday.

With a few more days left before the end of the voter registration period, the target number of registrants for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in December has been reached.