Teacher dies in mishap; Abra mayor faces raps

DAGUIOMAN, Abra -- Mayor Marcelo Padilla here is facing charges of homicide and physical injury following a road accident that left a day care teacher dead and another injured.
    Police said Padilla’s pickup hit Emerita Tubera, 53, and Mariso Sison, 55, along the Abra-Ilocos Sur National Road in Barangay Tangadan in San Quintin, Abra on Oct. 31.
    Tubera died while being treated in a hospital, where Sison remains in critical condition.
    Police said Padilla was driving his Ford Raptor when he lost control of the wheel and hit a concrete barrier and the two pedestrians.
    Padilla was with Vice Mayor Salma Padilla when the accident occurred.
    The mayor surrendered to Mayor Amador Diaz of San Quintin town.

4 druggies nabbed in buy- bust operations in Baguio

BAGUIO CITY -- Four drug suspects were arrested in buy-bust operations by police and anti-narcotics agents here Oct. 29-30.
    Suspects were identified as Francis Fred Gustarde, 31; Edmon Mosa Genese, 22; Carl Resurrection a.k.a "Dino", 21 and Angelo Valdez Simon, 19.
    Authorities nabbed Gustarde and Genese along Tacay Road, Guisad here
for allegedly selling 0.3 grams of suspected shabu worth P2,040 to a cop.
    Authorities confiscated additional suspected shabu weighing a gram worth P6,800 and two cell phones owned by the  suspects. 
    In Lower Magsaysay, suspect Angelo Valdez Simon was arrested after he sold to a cop marijuana leaves weighing two grams valued at P240. Also, in Upper Q.M, "Dino" was arrested after he sold suspected shabu weighing a gram valued at P6,800 to lawman who acted as buyer.
    Charges for illegal drugs were prepared against suspects by police.