Oscar Cosicol, dean of the criminology department of the Southern Mindanao Colleges in Pagadian City, was arrested at his home.

Makati City is offering booster jabs for non-residents who received their primary vaccines from a different local government unit or facility, Mayor Abby Binay said Tuesday.

Two Abu Sayyaf bandits surrendered to the military in Talipao, Sulu on Saturday.

Five persons were hit by stray bullets while two others were injured by firecrackers during the New Year revelry in Sulu, authorities reported yesterday.

Illegal lumber with an estimated value of P600,000 was intercepted in Nueva Ecija on Sunday.

Murder charges were filed yesterday against a bodyguard of slain former mayor Aldrin Cerdan of Anda, Pangasinan.

Three inmates died and 14 others were injured after a riot broke out at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa on Sunday night, the Bureau of Corrections reported yesterday.

Another mayor in Metro Manila has contracted COVID-19.

The National Water Resources Board is urging the public to conserve and use water wisely as Angat Dam’s water elevation was below the normal high level at the end of 2021.

The provincial government of Negros Occidental is planning to close its border anew in preparation for the rise of COVID cases.