PAGASA said an LPA near Baao, Camarines Sur may bring scattered rains over Metro Manila and parts of Luzon.

Smuggled cigarettes seized in separate police operations were destroyed yesterday in Santa Maria, Bulacan.

The mayor of this town has urged the Philippine Navy to investigate the death of a Navy recruit while undergoing training.

The InterReligious Leaders’ Council for National Transformation yesterday expressed concern over a statement of President Marcos to revisit a proposal on the use of nuclear energy to bring down the cost of electricity.

Aside from Angat Dam in Bulacan, state meteorologists are closely monitoring the situation in three other reservoirs in Luzon, whose water levels have also been declining.

The Department of Education has been asked to investigate a viral video showing a male teacher being beaten up by students in Maco, Davao de Oro.

The city and provincial governments of Lamitan and Basilan conducted a hog depopulation activity yesterday to stop an outbreak of African swine fever.

Anti-narcotics operatives confiscated P122.53 billion worth of illegal drugs and arrested 206,516 suspects over the past four years, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency announced yesterday.

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board has suspended for 30 days the operation of a passenger bus that crashed into the concrete and plastic barriers of the EDSA busway in Quezon City.

More charges will be filed against the 18 self-styled bagmen of fugitive Zaldy Co and their lawyer Levito Baligod, former senator Antonio Trillanes IV said yesterday.