The suspect faces complaints of alleged violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act and for posession of unlicensed firearms.

A senior official of the National Irrigation Administration and provincial leaders inaugurated Wednesday seven projects in Basilan, designed to boost productivity of farmers, among them hundreds of now reforming former Abu Sayyaf gunmen.

The Office of the City Prosecutor of Mandaluyong has indicted the driver in the hit-and-run incident for a frustrated homicide charge for running over and abandoning traffic enforcer Christian Floralde last June.

A policeman allegedly committed suicide after killing his colleague at a checkpoint in Barangay Bakir in Bagabag town before midnight yesterday.

A refrigerated van containing an undetermined number of ice cream tubs, which was stolen from a cold storage facility in General Mariano Alvarez, Cavite on Monday, was found abandoned and empty in Calamba, Laguna on Tuesday.

The 92 families or 301 people who were evacuated in Marikina on Tuesday due to Severe Tropical Storm Florita returned to their homes as the Marikina River water level subsided yesterday.

The water levels in Angat Dam in Bulacan and Pantabangan in Nueva Ecija remain low despite rains dumped by the southwest monsoon enhanced by Severe Tropical Storm Florita in the past two days.

The remains of a woman and debris of a boat were recovered in the waters of Tarangnan, Samar on Tuesday, according to the military.

Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla has nominated two lawyers to be the next chief of the Bureau of Immigration and Land Registration Authority.

Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers is once again pushing for the restoration of the death penalty as a deterrent against heinous crimes.