A lingering dispute in the neighborhood ended in violence Tuesday in a courtroom when a Canadian retiree charged with malicious mischief gunned down his accuser and a lawyer before killing himself, police said.
A lingering neighborhood dispute, sources and local authorities said, was the root of the shooting death of two persons and the wounding of another after a 67-year-old Canadian man opened fire inside a courtroom before killing himself at the Palace of Justice in Cebu City Tuesday morning.
A physician and a lawyer were killed while a female prosecutor was wounded when a Canadian national went on a shooting rampage inside the Palace of Justice about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, the authorities said.
The Southern Leyte provincial government on Saturday served at least 10,500 pieces of prawns (350 kilograms) in a bid to establish a Guinness World Record for the longest prawn stew.
Battling cold winds and rampaging waves while praying for help to come, three Australia-based foreigners survived two days clinging to a capsized boat until they were rescued off the waters of Oriental Mindoro on Thursday.
Two police intelligence officers in Iloilo City are being investigated for allegedly illegally detaining and extorting P250,000 from a Pakistani businessman.
A Filipino Catholic priest wanted in the United States for theft and possession of child pornography has surrendered to Philippine authorities after more than a year as a fugitive.
Manuel Amalilio, CEO of Aman Futures Group Phils. Inc., has blamed another company official, Fernando Luna, for the financial woes of the firm.
The police medico-legal officer of Western Visayas declared that overseas Filipino worker Aloha Acer Magbanua could have committed suicide in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last month.
Business groups, officials and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) welcomed the opening of international flights from and to the Iloilo International Airport on Friday as a boost to travel, tourism and trade in Western Visayas.
Civil aviation and tourism officials in Western Visayas are gearing up for the opening of direct international flights to and from the Iloilo international airport on November 8.
An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) arrested for the attempted murder of a Bacolod policeman died after he jumped from the third floor of the Bacolod Hall of Justice on October 31.
