The Sandiganbayan First Division has affirmed charges of one count of graft and two counts of falsification of public documents filed against eight ranking officers of the Philippine Navy and a trader over alleged anomalous purchases of medical supplies worth P2.79 million from October 1990 to July 1992.

Former socioeconomic planning secretary Romulo Neri has agreed to appear before the Senate this coming Monday, despite alleged fears of being arrested once he shows up.

Government prosecutors have shelved for now their plans of seeking an immediate transfer of detention quarters for Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and other personalities implicated in last week's hotel standoff.

Malacañang on Thursday said it has not received any recommendation on the release date of jailed rapist Romeo Jalosjos, GMA News Flash Report said.

A judge who handled several recent high-profile cases will now handle the rebellion case against Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and more than 30 personalities in connection with the November 29 standoff in Makati City.

The Philippine Army strongly denied Thursday claims by detained National Democratic Front (NDF) consultant Elizabeth Principe that shed was tortured in her captivity.

(Updated) Opposition Senators Aquilino Pimentel and Panfilo Lacson arrived on Thursday morning in Camp Crame to visit detained Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV.

Six inmates bolted a San Juan detention cell before dawn Thursday but authorities recaptured two of them, radio dzMM reported.

Romeo Jalosjos, a former Zamboanga del Norte congressman convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl in 1996, may celebrate Christmas this year as a free man. A sister and a brother of Jalosjos are KAMPI partymates of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who approved the commutation of Jalosjos's double life sentence supposedly because of old age and unspecified illness.

Opposition Senators Aquilino Pimentel and Panfilo Lacson arrived on Thursday morning in Camp Crame to visit detained Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV.