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COTABATO CITY –
An accountancy student of Notre Dame University was crowned Mutya ng Cotabato 2017 besting seven other equally beautiful ladies during Monday night’s beauty pageant celebrating Cotabato City’s 58th
founding anniversary.

Ms. Yiannie
Olalisan, 3rd year Bachelor of Science in Accountancy student also
brought home minor and special awards like Miss Belly Fit, Miss Queen of
Closet, Miss Gluta White, Miss AlNor, Miss Photogenic, Miss SanSan Cosmetics,
and Best in Long Gown.

LANAO DEL SUR --- The P250 million worth of shabu found Sunday by soldiers in a hideout of Maute gunmen in Marawi City was only one-third of the group’s actual stockpile, local leaders said Monday.Elected municipal officials in Lanao del Sur province said the custodians of the 11 kilos of shabu took with them more than 20 kilos more as they escaped when they sensed that personnel of the Army’s 49thInfantry Battalion were closing in.Marawi City is the capital of Lanao del Sur, which covers 39 towns, whose local officials are mostly related to one another either by blood or by affinity.

MARAWI CITY- The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will construct sanitation facilities in some of the evacuation camps in Lanao del Sur to help ensure the health and wellbeing of families staying there.While majority of the almost 46,000 families displaced by the armed conflict in Marawi City have sought shelter in their relative’s houses, some families are forced to crowd into evacuation camps.ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman said the unfavorable conditions in evacuation camps expose individuals staying there, especially the children, to potential health risks.Hataman led a team of ARMM off

COTABATO CITY --- North Cotabato is grieving over the death in Marawi City of another son, the sixth soldier from the province killed there in line of duty since May 23.1Lt. Junrich Legada, a nurse in an Army Special Forces unit fighting the Maute terror group, even planned to marry his girlfriend of ten years immediately after their operation in Marawi City. His girlfriend lost a good would-be husband and his family lost a member with good standing in the local community, North Cotabato Vice Gov.

KIDAPAWAN CITY --A village treasurer and a farmer, both suspected of drug trafficking, were arrested by authorities in Kabacan, North Cotabato on Friday.Chief Inspector Bryan Placer, station chief of Kabacan Police, identified the suspects as Abdulkadir Calim, 41, farmer, and Nadya Hasim Abubakar or Nandja Bacuna, 36, treasurer of Barangay Nabundas in Pagagawan, Maguindanao.Both are residents of Barangay Kayaga, Kabacan.

GEN. SANTOS CITY – Police arrested
here the No.3 most wanted kidnapper during the serving of warrants of arrest.

Police Chief Inspector Renato
Salarda, Gen. Santos City Police Station 2 chief, in his report to Supt. Romeo
Galgo, PRO-12 spokesperson, said joint elements of local police and the Camp
Crame-based PNP Anti-Kidnapping Group, arrested Emily Pedecio Pedtukasan.

The operation was conducted in Silway
district, Sta. Cruz, Barangay West, General Santos City.

KORONADAL CITY -- While many were asleep, a magnitude 4.2 earthquake rocked parts of Mindanao at 2 a.m., state volcanology office said today.Tectonic in origin, the tremor has a depth of 23 kilometers and its epicenter was located 19 kilometers southeast of T'boli, South Cotabato.Intensity 4 was recorded in General Santos City. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said no aftershocks are expected but residents are advised to stay vigilant.No reported damages in the affected areas.

COTABATO CITY – A thousand barangay tanods on Wednesday vowed to execute members and even mere sympathizers of the Dawlah Islamiya and Ansa’r Al-Khilafa they find here.They promised it before Mayor Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi, Col. Jose Gongona of the Army-led anti-terrorism Task Force Kutawato, Senior Supt.

LANAO
DEL SUR --- Officials on Thursday warned that terrorists are
deliberately holding out in mosques in Marawi City to provoke airstrikes
they can hype as sacrilegious to trigger indignation by moderate
Muslims.Gov.
Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and
his constituent-Maranaw lawmaker, Zia Alonto Adiong of the 24-member
Regional Assembly, separately said Thursday that the Dawlah
Islamiya want the two old and historic mosques in Marawi City they are

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- At least 77 houses, stores and establishments were demolished by the provincial Government and Kidapawan along a road leading to the North Cotabato Provincial Hospital (CPH) in Barangay Amas. At the same time, the provincial government unveiled its plan for big-ticket infrastructure projects including road widening and hospital expansion. Atty.