A court stenographer in Tarlac has been dismissed by the Supreme Court for being “habitually disrespectful, disobedient and offensive.”

The Department of Public Works and Highways has acquired 32 million worth of maintenance equipment to be utilized in Metro Manila, a DPWH official reported yesterday.

Germany will hire 600 registered Filipino nurses for hospitals and elderly care centers through the Department of Migrant Workers, the German embassy in Manila announced yesterday.

Thousands of job vacancies are available nationwide for tourism workers, the Department of Labor and Employment reported yesterday.

Seven persons were arrested after the local police and agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency raided a suspected drug den in this city on Sunday afternoon.

The newly designated Cavite police director assumed the post yesterday morning.

An Army sergeant allegedly shot and killed a fellow soldier before turning the gun on himself in Piñan, Zamboanga del Norte on Sunday night.

A son and daughter-in-law of the late New People’s Army leader George Madlos, alias Ka Oris, were killed in an encounter with government security forces in Impasug-ong, Bukidnon over the weekend.

Criminal charges were filed yesterday before the Department of Justice against 11 people believed to be involved in the disappearance of a chief executive officer of a pharmaceutical company in Bonifacio Global City in Taguig last July.

The Sandiganbayan has allowed former Iloilo congresswoman Judy Syjuco to plead guilty to lesser offenses in connection with an allegedly anomalous P5.9-million cell phone project in 2005.