One pound less: Gary Russell Jr. makes weight on second try

Glendale Rosal 01/22/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines— The reigning World Boxing Council (WBC) world featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr. needed to step on the weighing scales twice to get the mandatory weight ahead of his title defense against Mark “Magnifico” Magsayo…

Cebu City barangay councilor shot dead

Paul Lauro and Alven Marie A. Timtim 11/30/2020

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — An unidentified gunman shot dead a 61-year-old Cebu City barangay councilor this noon of November 30, 2020 in an alley along Sitio Adelfa, Barangay Kinasang-an, Cebu City. Engineer Ponciano Villamil, Barangay Kinasang-an…

Cordova fire razes 15 houses, displaces 50 families

Paul Lauro and Alven Marie A. Titmtim 11/27/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A midmorning fire today, November 27, 2020, has razed 15 houses and displaced at least 50 families in Sitio Calan, Barangay Poblacion, Cordova town in Mactan Island. Fire Officer 2 Jan Cyril Delfin…

Dead man, whose face was covered with duct tape, was a bank loan processor

Paul Lauro and Alven Marie A. Timtim 11/20/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The unidentified dead man, whose face was covered with duct tape and whose body was found in Consolacion town, was a loan processor of a bank. This developed after a relative from Talisay…

Dead man, whose face covered with duct tape, found in Consolacion

Paul Lauro and Alven Marie A. Timtim 11/19/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Consolacion police are trying to identify the dead man, whose face has been covered with duct tape and whose hands have been tied with a cable tie. The man’s body was found in…

Friday the 13th fire razes 30 houses, displaces 56 individuals in Cebu City

Paul Lauro and Alven Marie A. Timtim 11/13/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A fire razed at least 30 houses and displaced 56 individuals this Friday the 13th in Sitio Fatima, Barangay Pahina Central in Cebu City. The Cebu City fire Department recorded at least 24…

Culinary student caught with P370K marijuana in Mandaue

Paul Lauro and Alven Marie A. Timtim 11/07/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A 25-year-old culinary student, who allegedly moonlights as a drug dealer, will have to put on hold his cooking dreams after he was caught with P370,000 worth of marijuana during a buy-bust operation…

Lapu-Lapu cops try to identify 5 masked gunmen involved in Babag killing

Paul Lauro and Alven Marie A. Timtim 11/07/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Police are turning to security camera footage in the hopes of identifying the five masked gunmen, who barged into the house of 58-year-old man in Purok Judas Belt, Barangay Babag, Lapu-Lapu City and…

Jealous man drags girlfriend, jumps off 30-meter deep cliff in Carcar

Paul Lauro and Alven Marie A. Timtim 11/05/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A jealous 25-year-old man, who was desperate to have his 21-year-old common-law wife to quit her job and return home with him to Balamban town, decided to end it all by jumping off…

P1.6M shabu seized, 2 HVIs nabbed in 2 Cebu City drug busts

Paul Lauro and Alven Marie A. Timtim 11/05/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Police in Cebu City confiscated an estimated P1.6 million suspected shabu and arrested two high value individuals  (HVIs) in two separate buy-bust operations in two days. The latest to fall was Jefferson Solon,…

Drugs eyed in brutal killing of Carcar resident

Alven Marie A. Timtim and Paul Lauro 11/02/2020

SANTA CATALINA, NEGROS ORIENTAL, Philippines — Was the brutal killing of a Barangay Valladolid, Carcar City resident, who was shot and hacked dead on Sunday morning, November 1, 2020, a drug-related crime? This is one of the…

Security guard killed, woman wounded in Cebu City shooting attack

Alven Marie A. Timtim and Paul Lauro 10/30/2020

SANTA CATALINA, Negros Oriental — A security guard was shot dead while a passerby was wounded in the shooting incident this evening, October 30, 2020, in Sitio Alumnos Riverside, Barangay Basak San Nicolas, Cebu City. Mambaling policemen…

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