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KORONADAL CITY - Two elementary school children who ask moneyfrom people in the city night market showed they only beg and do not claim what is not theirs.The two children, Jessica Musa, 9 and Soraida Bantilan, 8, were begging for coins at the city night marketwhen they both found a pouch, according to Police Officer 3 Arnel Falcis of Koronadal City Traffic Office.The two girls, residents of Purok Kings, Barangay General Paulino Santos and studying at Marbel I Central Elementary School, said they found the wallet in front of Siomai stall.Falcis said he found the girls' act very noble and

TACURONG CITY --- Gov.

COTABATO CITY --Close to 300 stray dogs had been snared
by the Cotabato City veterinary office in three months of operations meant to
stop the spread of the rabies and protect residents against potentially deadly
dog bites.

Of the number, 20 have been retrieved by
owners, according to Dr. Robert Malcontente, DVM, who heads the city’s
veterinary office.

KORONADAL CITY --– A 44-year-old pedicab driver here is offering a day-long free
ride to anybody within the city as he celebrated his natal day today.

This is my
way of saying thanks for all the blessings and for the gift of life, Dante
Letimas, a resident of Barangay Poblacion here, told w and//www.ndbcnews.com.ph www.ndbcnews.com.ph .

Letimas, a
father of two, has been a pedicab driver the past 15 years, is a pastor of Born
Again Christian sect.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – Joint Elements of 19th Infantry Battalion,and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-ARMM) arrested Friday morning a drug suspect during drug by bust operation in Barangay Lower Caption, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.Arrested during joint drug buy bust operation at 11 in the morning wasDatu Daffi, believed to be peddler of prohibited drugs not only in Datu Odin Sinsuat town but also in other areas of Maguindanao. The law enforcers also recovered twoCal. 45 pistols, a 9 mm pistol, aCal.

MAGUINDANAO --- Two Moro men were killed while another was injured in a mysterious explosion in Datu Piang town at past 3and00 p.m.

KORONADAL CITY – Two children on their way ome from school were drowned Wednesday afternoon
in a river in the upland town of Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, disaster officials
said.

Roberto
Bagong, the municipal disaster risk reduction and management council action
officer, said the two male children, aged 8 and 9 years old, were crossing the
LamLahak River in Barangay Lamlahak, near the town Poblacion when they were
swept away by rampaging waters.

MAGUINDANAO --- Authorities have foiled an attempt by a foreigner with a Spanish passport to smuggle into Maluso town in Basilan materials for improvised explosive devices.In a statement Thursday, the Police Regional Office-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao said Abdulhakim Adib was arrested on Monday, but was not immediately announced due to extensive identity validation processes.Adib was intercepted at past 11:00 p.m.

COTABATO CITY -- Applicants for the college scholarship
program of the provincial government of North Cotabato has doubled from the original target of 316senior high school students set to graduate this school year.

Norito Mazo, scholarship
program coordinator for the provincial government, said only 316 scholarship slots will
be available for the incoming school year as the same number of college
scholars are set to graduate this year.

TACURONG CITY,
Jan 24 -- An escapee from South Cotabato provincial jail was killed in a
shootout with government forces and another escapee was rearrested following
police operations here Wednesday morning.

Senior Supt. Raul
Supiter, Sultan Kudarat police provincial director, said Andy Evangelista who
escaped from the provincial jail was killed while his companion, another
escapee, identified as a certain Mando, was nabbed in police follow-up pursuit
operations.