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Gunman kills nine at Oregon college before being fatally shot by police

A gunman opened fire at a community college in southern Oregon on Thursday (October 1), killing nine people and wounding seven others before police shot him to death, authorities said, in the latest mass killing to rock an American campus. Governor Kate Brown said the suspect was a 20-year-old man who was slain in an exchange of gunfire with police in Snyder Hall at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg following the rampage shortly after 10:30 […]

Additional medical crews brought in after Oregon shooting

A Springfield, Oregon hospital, near where a mass shooting on a college campus left ten people dead, prepared for additional emergency medical personnel on Thursday (October 1) in order to handle the casualties it was expecting. “We called in multiple extra resources, surgeons, emergency physicians, nursing and others. In the meantime, we’ve been preparing also outside the actual medical arena by helping support some of the families, by setting up family resources, lodging and areas […]

The titans should have eaten them all…

QUEZON City, Philippines (October 2) – I know that we should treat a film or a movie differently from its source material. That a film is the director’s interpretation of the original work and that it can never compete with your own interpretation or imagination. But still… The live-action adaptation of the “Attack on Titan” is very disappointing. The manga “Attack on Titan” by Hajime Isayama was a commercial and critical success. So is the […]

DavNor tourism not affected by kidnapping

Tourism in Davao del Norte particularly in Samal Island has not been affected by the September 21 kidnapping of three foreigners and one Filipina at a resort in Samal. “We have not received reports of previous bookings which were cancelled after the kidnapping. “ Noel Daquioag, provincial tourism officer of Davao del Norte said during his guesting at the Club 888 media forum in Marco Polo Davao yesterday  (Sept. 30). Daquioag said that they view […]

Subway System will solve Metro Manila traffic – MMDA Chair

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chair Francis Tolentino said that Subway System is a solution to the massive traffic experiencing in Metro Manila. In a recent study conducted by the community-based traffic and navigation app Waze, Metro Manila has been reported to have the worst traffic on Earth. In line with the report that Metro Manila had the worst traffic on Earth, Tolentino said that the cities included in the study have efficient Mass Transit […]

Manila has worst traffic on Earth – Waze

Metro Manila has the worst traffic on Earth. That’s according to the popular GSP-based navigation app Waze. Waze recently released the world’s first “Global Driver Satisfaction Index,” which determined by evaluating the driving experience of fifty million users in 32 countries and 167 metro areas. The results of the study by Waze showed that on a city level, Metro Manila has the worst traffic – followed by Bandung in Indonesia and Guatemala in Central America. […]

San Jose, Nueva Ecija nakiisa sa E-course kaugnay ng solid-waste management

Sumailalim ang San Jose Cenro sa isang “E-course on solid waste management for local government units” nitong Lunes at Martes (Sept.28-29) na ginanap sa Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Visayas Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City and San Jose City Environment Natural Resources Office kasama ang iba pang lungsod sa Pilipinas. Layunin ng naturang pag-aaral na mapahusay ang kapasidad ng bawat LGU sa pagbuo ng kanilang sariling plano patungkol sa solid waste management at mga […]

Bulacan isinailalim na sa “state of calamity” dahil sa dengue

Nagdeklara na ng state of calamity ang Bulacan dahil sa patuloy na pagtaas ng kaso ng dengue kung saan labing isa katao na ang nasawi sa nasabing lalawigan. Sa pamamagitan nito, magagamit na ng provincial government ang kanilang tatlumpu’t siyam na milyong calamity fund para gamiting pangtulong sa mga nabiktima ng dengue. Tinatayang aabot na sa 4,771 na dengue case ang naitala sa Bulacan mula Enero hanggang Setyembre ngayong taon, mas mataas umano ng dalawang […]

MNLF confirms sighting of kidnap victims

An officer of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) said confirmed that there was a sighting of the four kidnap victims in a forest in Sulu. The kidnappers were said to be members of a faction of the Abu Sayyaf Group. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Dexter Magno, MRFaith Bonalos)

Duterte calls on persons-with-authority establish rapport with soldiers

DAVAO CITY, Oct 1 (PIA) Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, chair of the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) in Davao Region urged mayors, barangay chairs and teachers and persons with authority to establish good rapport with the security sector to harmonize relationships in responding to the needs of the people, particularly safety and security. He made the statement during the RPOC 3rd Quarter meeting Wednesday, following an interview where leaders of the Island Garden City of […]

Gilas Pilipinas to meet Lebanon

As the FIBA Asia championship continues, basketball fans are excited for the much-awaited fan between Gilas Pilipinas and Lebanon. That and more sports news from Agila Balita Alas Dose. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Dexter Magno, MRFaith Bonalos)