Two boys carry water in a plastic container as they help extinguish the smoldering ruins of their house in Quezon City on Monday. The fire left more than 100 poor families homeless. (AP photo)
MANILA -- Tribesmen are helping hunt down the suspect in the killing of US Peace Corps volunteer Julia Campbell whose body was found buried in a shallow grave last week in Banaue, Ifugao, a police official said.
CEBU CITY -- Government agents arrested a Cebu City policeman for allegedly escorting a suspected drug peddler in a buy-bust on N. Bacalso Ave., Cebu City last Sunday afternoon.
KORONADAL CITY -- A delegation official from Marinduque Province succumbed to heart failure while nine other athletes and officials suffered from heat stroke after temperature soared to a high 38 degrees Celsius during the opening day of the Palarong Pambansa Sunday.
ANGELES CITY -- A former local chief executive filed murder and attempted murder charges against Mexico Town Mayor Teddy Tumang before a court in the City of San Fernando last Friday.