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KOTA KINABALU — The threat of execution hangs over the four abducted Malaysian sailors after Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines set an “early” May deadline for talks to begin for their release. Anti-kidnapping activist Prof.…
SAN LUIS, Agusan del Sur — Communist rebels yesterday afternoon took a surprise move to free three Army soldiers and a militiaman in what was supposed to be an event in a remote village of Balit here…
POLICE held a 36-year-old construction worker in custody after he forcibly entered a pawnshop in Barangay Guadalupe, Cebu City at about 5 p.m. Tuesday. James Abella barged into the two-story property that houses Agencia Niña, claiming ownership…
FIVE days of going without food and sleep might have caused 34-year-old Louie Bontowal to black out, then stab and wound a street vendor in Tabada Market, barangay Mambaling, Cebu City last Monday. Bontowal’s former live-in partner…
A man believed to be mentally unstable set his aunt’s house on fire then held two boys hostage at knife-point in Consolacion town, northern Cebu last Friday afternoon. Eight houses were destroyed in the fire. The hostage-taking…
A 21-year-old man was detained after he burned the house of his aunt after a heated argument and held hostage two minors past 2 p.m. in sitio East Binabag in barangay Tayud in Consolacion town. Neighbors said…
Lindelea Bacon still believes that her husband can change for the better even after holding her and their two children hostage at gunpoint in their house in Tinaan, City of Naga last Saturday. Lindelea said that Veroni,…
The former overseas worker who held his wife and children hostage over the weekend will be charged before the prosecutors’ office today. Police said Veroni Bacon will be charged with violating the law protecting women and children,…
Police will today file four charges against a former overseas worker who held his wife and children hostage in their house in Naga City Saturday. Supt. Brindo Nacario, chief of police of Naga City, said the hostage-taker,…
A former overseas worker held his wife and two children hostage at gunpoint for over 12 hours in their house in barangay Tina-an, Naga City, south of Cebu yesterday. He made no demands. The violent outburst was…
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