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COTABATO CITY -- Southerners will remember two events in 2015 that added colors to the rosy history of the Mindanao region.These events are the now infamous January 25, 2015 Mamasapano incident” and the demise six months later of Datu Andal Ampatuan, Sr., principal suspect in the Nov.

KORONADAL CITY - A woman believed to have been hit by a speeding vehicle ormolested on board a van and dumped along the national highway here the other night has been identified.Police said a certain Rex Binas of Barangay Rotunda, Koronadal City claimed the woman, Sunshine Brameda, 21,was his live-in partner.Brameda was found by responding traffic enforcers and rescue units bloodied andlifeless along the national highway in BarangayCarpenter Hillat past 11 p.m.Binas said his partner told him she will visit her parents in Barangay Namnama, also in Koronadal City.But Binas could not explain w

KORONADAL CITY -- A former municipal assessor ofBanga, South Cotabato who was accused of falsifying public documentswas arrested by police authorities.Nerissa S.

COTABATO CITY -– Local officials will make use of force multiplier” to help secure
the city from lawless elements after 125 policemen, earlier deployed in the
city, were recalled back to police regional office in Gen. Santos City.

Presiding over the City
Peace and Order Council Meeting (CPOC), Mayor Japal Guiani Jr raised concern
over the pull out of police augmentation force amid reports lawless elements
may strike anytime during the Holidays.

KORONADAL CITY - Three persons were killed when a motorcycle they were riding smashed an Isuzu Bighorn vehicle in the national highway in Tantangan, South Cotabato.The incident happened in Purok Acacia, New Iloilo, Tantangan town at about 7 p.m. Sunday.Senior Insp.

COTABATO CITY -- The police and military on Monday placed under tight surveillance power relay towers scattered in Central Mindanao due mounting threats of attacks by bombers during the holidays.Governors Esmael Mangudadatu and Emmylou Mendoza of Maguindanao and North Cotabato, respectively, on Monday ordered their constituent-mayors to help authorities secure the steel relay pylons of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) in the two provinces.The NGCP towers carry high tension cables connecting towns in Maguindanao and North Cotabato to a state-run hydroelectric plant in

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MANILA) -- Another tower of power-grid operator National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) in Mindanao was bombed Friday evening.In an advisory Saturday, the company said NGCP's Tower #168 of Kabacan-Sultan Kudarat 138kV line in Ladia, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao was bombed on 18 December at 11:00 p.m.

SOUTH UPI,
Maguindanao – More than 600 Indigenous Peoples (IP) school childrenand village educators have
received on Thursday early Christmas gifts” from the Notre Dame Broadcasting
Corporation (NDBC) and its partners from social welfare andeducation departments of the Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Salamat,
Thank You,” were the only words that the beneficiary could say since it was the
first time such activity reached Biarong Primary School and Lamud Elementary
School, both in the upland town of South Upi.

KORONADAL CITY - Police and netizens found cases of emptied beers at the back of a government pick-up vehicle driven by Lake Sebu Vice Mayor Floro Gandam that figured in a highway mishap in Barangay Palian, Tupi, South CotabatoThursday.The freak accident happened at past 2 p.m. along the Koronadal City - Gen.