A member of the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit was killed while three others were badly hurt in an ambush here at noontime Friday.

The situation was eventually raised to a second alarm by 9:00 a.m. due to the thickness of the smoke coming out.

Two brothers who admitted to be members of the New People’s Army surrendered to the military in Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental on Wednesday.

A magnitude-5.1 earthquake shook parts of Ilocos Sur yesterday afternoon, state seismologists said.

Marijuana plants with an estimated value of P27 million were burned following a police operation in Tinglayan, Kalinga yesterday.

Former National Press Club president Alfredo Lobo was found dead in his condominium unit in Malate, Manila on Tuesday.

The movement of the Abu Sayyaf bandit group will be more limited after the Anti-Terror Council designated as terrorists five of its subleaders tagged in cross-border kidnapping activities, the military said yesterday.

The mayor of Pilar town in Abra and his sister vice mayor whose security men were tagged in a stand-off with policemen have surrendered more firearms to the provincial police.

Workers in the private sector in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will have higher take home pay after the regional wage board on Wednesday granted them a salary increase of P16 per day.

Eighty-one new soldiers will join the Armed Forces of the Philippines after they passed a special training at the Army’s 5th Infantry Division in Gamu, Isabela, the military said yesterday.