DAVAO City Councilor Leonarda Avila on Tuesday renewed his support for aerial spray ban.

DAVAO City Councilor Nilo Abellera on Wednesday gave an early warning to the city to be wary of thieves during the Christmas season.

COUNSEL of the complainant against a member of Villa Abrille clan accused of killing two young men in restobar last year said the police have yet to arrest the suspect.

THE military has recovered the body of the slain broadcaster who was among the 57 people massacred in Ampatuan, Maguindanao last Monday.

POLICE named Wednesday Andal Ampatuan Jr., mayor of Datu Unsay town in Maguindanao, as the prime suspect in an election-linked massacre of at least 60 people in Maguindanao.

THE National Government is giving financial assistance to relatives of Maguindanao massacre victims.

NO HIGH-powered firearms will be allowed in the City of Davao even if the owners have permit to bring them in.

THE Maguindanao massacre just showed how President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's administration had failed to address the growing impunity

WITH Monday's Maguindanao massacre where 34 journalists were killed, an international media watchdog group has tagged Philippines as the most dangerous place in the world for media workers.

A JOURNALIST, who was among those spared in the killings in Maguindanao town on November 23, confirmed there were 34 journalists who joined the convoy of the Mangudadatus.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- The mother of human rights lawyer Concepcion Jayme-Brizuela kept her pent-up emotions when she saw her eldest daughter's body being given "a face-lift" at a funeral home.

DAVAO City Council urged Tuesday the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to implement a gun ban effective December 1 stemming from Monday's Maguindanao massacre.

AN INTERNATIONAL environmentalist said Tuesday that current agreements on global warming, specifically carbon trading, are doing more damage than easing the effects of climate change.

THE Regional Trial Court (RTC) has granted the motion to release one of the accused in the murder case involving an Australian national for him to become a state witness.

DESPITE losing a wife, two sisters and several relatives, Buluan Vice Mayor Ismael "Toto" Mangudadatu vowed Tuesday to let the law take its course and appealed for sobriety among kin and supporters.