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After 12 years, a Quezon City court convicted yesterday three members of a carjacking group for the murder of car dealer Venson Evangelista, whose charred remains were dumped in Nueva Ecija in 2011.
After 12 years, a Quezon City court convicted yesterday three members of a carjacking group for the murder of car dealer Venson Evangelista, whose charred remains were dumped in Nueva Ecija in 2011.
Tagumpay Mendoza De Leon is a master teacher and performer of rondalla, a traditional Spanish-influenced form of music from the Philippines. De Leon, a 2021 NEA National Heritage Fellow, has spent his decades-long career promoting and preserving Philippine culture through the tradition of rondalla.
Print When the U.S. attorney’s corruption case targeting Los Angeles City Hall first broke into view, much of the public’s attention focused on vivid descriptions of cash bribes, escort services and lavish trips to Las Vegas. But as the investigation has unspooled over the past year, federal prosecutors have laid out another, less sensational set of allegations: that a deputy mayor-turned-real estate consultant worked to arrange “indirect bribes” for city officials by routing the money through those officials’ family members. Prosecutors brought an indictment alleging that former De...