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KORONADAL CITY – Karton karton na mga tsokolate ang ipinadala ng mga batang taga Mindanao para sa mga sundalong itinuturing na bayani sa patuloy pang sagupaan ng Armed Force of the Philippines at grupo ng Maute ISIS sa Marawi City.Ang nasabing mga chocolate ay mula mismo sa iba’t ibang paaralan sa Mindanao na nilikom ng grupong Mindanao youth for peace movement.

CAMP
SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao – Police and anti-narcotics agents
arrested in Lanao del Sur five persons involved in illegal drug trade in a town
where thousands of evacuees converged following the Marawi siege, police today
said.

COTABATO CITY -- A 40-year-old man who survived a murder attempt ended up in jail in Sultan Mastura, Maguindanao, police said.Farmer Ali Alongan of Barangay Solon, Sultan Mastura showed up at the town police office to put on record the murder attempt against him and his son Wednesday.He wanted to put into police blotter the attempt on his life and his son's hours earlier after two men armed with Armalite rifle opened fire on them.Alongan and his son Hissam survived but he sustained minor bullet injuries,Chief Inspector Noel dela Cruz, Sultan Mastura town police chief.

KORONADAL CITY — Muslims are opposed to renaming South Cotabato into Allah Valley province, a plan recommended by a ranking police official to Governor Daisy Avance Fuentes and South Cotabato Representative Ferdinand Hernandez.Michael Mendoza Mustapha, a former training officer at a local aviation school, described the change-name plan as an insensitive and ignorant suggestion.

SOUTH COTABATO - A 15-year-old girl here claimed she had been repeatedly molested sexually by her own father, her uncles and even her grandfather.DXOM-AM Radyo Bida Koronadal withheld the identities of the rape survivor and other personalities involved in the crime, including the town where they live, to protect them from humiliation.Relatives sought police assistance and arrested the girl's father while manhunt had been launched against her two uncles who she claimed to have been molesting her for so long.The child showed unusual emotional and psychological behavior while in school that ca

KORONADAL CITY - A police official in South Cotabato has recommended the renaming of the province to Allah Valley province.The reason, according to Senior Supt. Franklin Alvero, South Cotabato police director, is to erase the negative impression the word Cotabato implies.He said the term Cotabato is associated with crimes and violence, thus, renaming it to Allah Valley province would remove the stigma and promote tourism.Alvero forwarded his recommendations to South Cotabato Gov. Daisy Avance Fuentes and Rep.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- An operative of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in Soccsksargen (Region 12) has questioned the authority of the city vice-mayor here for allegedly interfering in their law enforcement operations they conducted along the Kidapawan-Makilala highway, early this month.In a copy of a report furnished to media on Tuesday, Bonifacio Dalawan, leader of the Law Enforcement Team from LTO 12, said Kidapawan City vice-mayor Bernardo Pinol, Jr., arrived at the area, around 1050 a.m., on July 7, while they were issuing temporary operator’s permit (TOP) to traffic violators they app

KIDAPAWAN CITY --- North Cotabato provincial government today expressed sadness over the passing of former Vice Provincial Governor Jose Segovia Bing Tuburan Jr who tragically did not survive a major operation at the Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao City.He expired t 6:30 in the evening Sunday. He is 70 years old.Tuburan died at the Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao City.

COTABATO CITY – Police announced today the arrest Sunday of a member of the Maute
terror group in an evacuation in Saguiaran town in Lanao del Sur.

Chief Supt. Reuben
Sindac, police director for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
(PRO-ARMM), said Lala Arafat, 38 was positively identified by evacuees as
followers of siblings Omar and Abdullah Maute.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Police here filed on Monday reckless imprudence resulting to homicide complaint against a driver of a passenger utility vehicle who allegedly hit and killed a 10-year old boy while heading towards Poblacion here, on Friday.Authorities identified the victim as John Karl Guiling, Grade Four pupil from Kilometer 116 in Barangay Paco, here.He just embarked from a tricycle after his class when the incident happened.Reports said the victim was about to cross the street when a speeding multi-cab driven by a certain Danny Villasor, 46, of Barangay Amas, also this city, hit him.The