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Danilo Celeste, an escapee of the Negros Occidental District Jail in Bago City, was killed after he allegedly resisted arrest at Sitio Ambulo, Barangay San Fernando, Talisay City, Negros Occidental Friday, July 2.*

Taal Volcano emitted a one kilometer high phreatomagmatic plume Thursday afternoon raising fears of more eruptions.* Phivolcs video screengrab

PRISON BREAK. The five prisoners of the Negros Occidental District Jail in Bago City who escaped on Tuesday, June 29.*NODJ photos

A wayward pickup truck slammed into parked vehicles and a sari-sari store beside the national highway in Barangay Mabini, Valladolid, Negros Occidental, Monday morning, June 28, that left three people injured.*Mark Cabrillos photo

A wild monitor lizard spotted in Barangay Mambulac, Silay City, Saturday, June 26.*Aeson Baldevia photo

Bacolod resident Ann Ledesma tied yellow ribbons on her gate in honor of former president Benigno Aquino III.*

The Philippine flag flies at half-mast in front of the Bacolod City Government Center for former President Benigno Aquino III who passed away Thursday, June 24.*Bacolod PIO photo

The Parish of San Isidro Labrador in Moises Padilla held a special thanksgiving mass that was attended by Mayor Ella Garcia-Yulo, her family, and the municipal government employees Wednesday, June 23, a day after the NAPOLCOM resolution came out dismissing six cops.*Moises Padilla LGU photo

RESCUED. A Philippine serpent eagle was rescued from illegal traders at Purok Paglaum, Barangay Zone 2, Cadiz City, on June 10, who sold it on Facebook to the City Environment and Natural Resources Office operatives in an entrapment operation for P2,500. The eagle was then released back into the wild.*CENRO/Marc Caceres photo

Some of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office personnel who were hit with COVID-19 received cash assistance at Camp Alfredo Montelibano Sr. in Bacolod City Monday, June 21.*NOCPPO photo