Now it can be told. It was gambling tycoon Charlie “Atong” Ang who tried to interfere in the National Police Commission (Napolcom)’s probe into the kidnapping and killing of sabungeros or cockfight aficionados.

Up to 240 mayors convened in San Juan City yesterday to discuss accelerating the construction of classrooms as local governments move to take a more direct role in addressing the worsening classroom shortage.

To help reduce traffic volume along the busiest thoroughfare in the metropolis, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is looking at the possibility of allowing high-occupancy vehicles with at least 10 passengers to use the EDSA busway....

President Marcos honored yesterday civil servants who made significant contributions in their respective fields.

After leading the Philippine National Police in an acting capacity for the past five months, PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. has finally received his fourth star.

Former Commission on Elections spokesman James Jimenez has died, the Comelec announced yesterday.

 Five firefighter volunteers are in hot water after they were recorded on video stealing bottles of liquor from a membership-only retail supermarket, which was razed by a fire in Quezon City yesterday.

Two people were killed while a barangay kagawad was wounded in an attack by unidentified assailants in Nabalawag, Cotabato before dawn yesterday.

A passenger was shot and wounded by airport security officers for refusing to surrender a knife detected in his baggage at the Iloilo International Airport in Cabatuan, Iloilo yesterday afternoon.

A former teller of the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija has been sentenced to up to eight years in prison for allowing the encashment of three checks insufficient of funds.