POLICE and agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 1 arrested a 45-year-old barber from Barangay Carmay East, Rosales town on February 10 and seized from him about 51.04 grams of suspected shabu with an estimated street value of P347,000. Suspect Michael Seguerra was apprehended after he sold…
URBAN legends come and go, and come again. In Pangasinan, tales of a white van going around and kidnapping children have resurfaced, spreading fear among netizens. There have recently been numerous posts online, particularly on Facebook, claiming that these alleged kidnappers have resumed their modus operandi of abducting children to…
(Filed by Ahikam Pasion) 3 nabbed in Urdaneta drug-bust ops, yields gun THE police apprehended three individuals in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Bonuan Gueset, Urdaneta City, and confiscated suspects shabu worth ₱40,800 and a .45 caliber pistol. One of the suspects, identified as 27-year-old Bobby, from Bonuan Gueset was…
ARMY troopers confiscated an arms cache from a group previously linked to the communist movement in Sitio Cabalitian, Barangay Santa Maria, San Nicolas town on February 10, 2025. Lt Colonel Benny Singca, battalion commander of the Philippine Army’s 71st Infantry Kaibigan, said the operation was done in collaboration with the community and a former member of the group….
A passenger bus overturned along the provincial highway in Barangay Unzad, Villasis on February 12, leaving all 25 people on board injured but no reported fatality. Villasis police chief P/Major Edgar Allan Serquina said the driver lost control of the steering wheel and veered off the slippery road caused by heavy rain….
THE Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) is still investigating the cause of a fire that broke out in a subdivision in Barangay Tapuac, Dagupan City, where the house of an Indian national was severely damaged. According to Fire Chief Inspector Michael John Escaño, head of BFP Dagupan, the second floor…
PARAYNOS: ONLY COMELEC RULE APPLIES MORE than a month after the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) served the one-year suspension order to Mayor Julio Parayno III and his cousin, Vice Mayor Jimmy Parayno, on January 7, the two city officials continue to occupy their respective posts and…
A new solar water system in Barangay Tobuan, Labrador town that will provide safe and clean water to residents was inaugurated last January 25 led by Representative Mark Cojuangco, Labrador Mayor Ernesto Acain, and other local officials. Cojuangco said this is the first in a program that aims to ensure…
DAGUPAN Mayor Belen Fernandez said it is only a matter of time before the more than 60-year-old dumpsite in Bonuan will finally be closed as hauling of excess garbage that have piled up there to the Urdaneta Sanitary Landfill is continuing. Speaking at the city’s plaza during a flag-raising ceremony…
THE much-needed repair of the partially collapsed 442-meter Carlos P. Romulo Bridge, also known as Wawa Bridge, along the Camiling-Wawa-Bayambang-Malasiqui-Sta. Barbara Road will start this quarter. Esperanza Tinaza, DPWH Ilocos Region information officer, said a P300-million fund for the reconstruction work was allocated in the 2024 national budget and the…
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