The Department of Education has called for tighter security in schools amid reports of sexual abuse and robbery of four teachers while preparing for the opening of classes in Ocampo, Camarines Sur.

A policeman recently assigned in Bambang town in this province was killed in a gun attack yesterday.

A villager was shot dead by suspected New People’s Army rebels in Sitio Huebesan, Barangay Marcelo in Calatrava, Negros Occidental on Friday.

Two siblings drowned while swimming in Barangay Rawis in Donsol, Sorsogon on Friday.

A Chinese man and his three Filipino cohorts were arrested in an anti-drug operation in Pangasinan on Friday.

The family of a tricycle driver who was killed in a hit-and-run involving a pickup truck owned by a Quezon City Police District official criticized the policemen who were present at the scene for abandoning him.

The city government of Makati has formed a task force to monitor and prevent the transmission of monkeypox, Mayor Abby Binay said yesterday.

A Makati court has set the arraignment and pre-trial of Gwyneth Anne Chua, also known as “Poblacion Girl,” on Sept. 5 for the charges against her for allegedly breaching mandatory quarantine protocols last December.

Police are looking for the driver of a vehicle which was spotted following the Toyota Land Cruiser of a pharmaceutical company’s chief executive officer who went missing in Bonifacio Global City in Taguig last month.

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board is planning to open around 100 new and old routes for public utility vehicles in time for the opening of classes on Aug. 22, LTFRB Chairperson Cheloy Garafil said on Friday night.