Detained former senator Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan is hounded by media as he is escorted inside the justice department in Manila to submit his counter-affidavit to coup charges leveled against him in this March 5, 2007 file photo. (AP photo)
MANILA -- Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez Sr. on Friday dropped a coup charge against senator-elect Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan in connection with a short-lived mutiny in 2003.
He, however, reaffirmed the coup case against senator-elect Antonio Trillanes IV and other junior military officers who in July 2003 briefly occupied the ritzy Oakwood apartment-hotel in Makati City and demanded President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's resignation for alleged corruption.
CEBU CITY -- Nineteen Wyeth milk products have already been taken off the shelves of Cebu City supermarkets, according to a Bureau of Food and Drug (BFAD) 7 report.
DAVAO CITY -- Police have identified the person behind the bombing of a bus in Bansalan, Davao del Sur and are preparing to file multiple murder and multiple frustrated murder cases against the suspect.
CEBU CITY -- Mayor Tomas Osmeña does not mind if he will appear vindictive, but he will ask the Capitol to turn over one-half to three fourths of the Cebu South Bus Terminal (CSBT) to the City Government within 15 days.
