Parents evacuate their children from an elementary school next to a Taguig city courthouse where a gunman identified as Almario Villegas and his lady partner seized four people hostages inside a courtroom Tuesday. (AP photo)
MANILA -- Police stormed a courtroom to end a two-day hostage crisis Wednesday, killing the gunman and freeing all four captives who were held by the movie stuntman and his common-law wife.
Gunshots and a blast rang out inside the Taguig city court in suburban Manila as police went in.
MANILA -- Warning of yet another political upheaval, the country's three biggest oil suppliers on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court (SC) to reconsider its March 7 decision ordering the immediate closure of their depots in Pandacan, Manila.
CEBU CITY -- The controversy over the allegedly overpriced decorative lampposts bought for the Asean summit has intensified, with the anti-graft office recently discovering 150 more units priced at over P300,000 each.
DAVAO CITY -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered the military to restrain its artillery and aerial bombings in Mindanao, as she expressed her desire to advance ongoing peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
