DEGAMO SLAY: 17 CASES FILED VS TEVES, OTHERS

Negros solon still ‘hiding’ in US?, seeks 2-month travel extension

By ALFRED GABOT, Editor in Chief

MANILA/SAN FRANCISCO — Rep. Arnolfo “Arnie” Teves has been implicated by two arrested suspected killers of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo and has been impleaded in murder charges and other charges filed against the assassins and others following police raids on the lawmaker’s homes amid insistence that he was innocent.

Hate crimes in US hit record high in 2021: FBI

By Gilda Balan, Correspondent

LOS ANGELES - The number of hate crimes in the US rose dramatically in 2021, setting an all-time high of almost 11,000 incidents. So says an FBI annual hate crimes report.

Worst of all, the number could be substantially higher as an unknown number of hate crimes go unreported.

The latest FBI report was released in December of last year and its initial vs final figures for the previous year showed that data gathering could still be improved.

Initially, the number of hate crimes for the previous year was pegged at 7,262, but this was later adjusted to 10,840. That final figure showed a 31 percent increase from the 2020 figure of 8,263.

Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, said the year-on-year hike in hate crimes was the highest in more than three decades.

By Be�ng Laygo Dolor, Editor

MANILA – Did assassinated Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo have an inkling of his impending death and knew by whose hand he would lose his life?

This seems to be the case as records from the Senate revealed this week that Degamo had written a letter to the senators asking for help.

FilAm photojournalist, wife assaulted in Sacramento

SACRAMENTO - A Filipino photojournalist based in Southern California and his wife were assaulted by a man while strolling in Sacramento in a brazen robbery attempt that may constitute as a hate crime at the State Capitol.

By Jun Nucum

front of others in the scene who witnessed but reportedly did nothing even to help but may have even taken videos of the attack while they were shoved and kicked multiple times. They were even dragged by the man who was trying to get Arriola’s camera.

Some issues in applying for naturalization

Nicanor ‘Nikki’ Arriola, president of the Asian American Press Club of the U.S., and his wife, Julienne, were walking on a fine afternoon along the Capitol last month and taking some pictures the day before they were about to go back to Carson after visiting relatives in Sacramento.

Suddenly, a black man appeared and assaulted them in

Arriola, who was wearing his press badge, suffered six broken ribs aside from abrasions while his wife is still hurting from knee and other bone injuries. Both were confined a few days at the University of California Davis Medical Center.

“I thank God I had no inju-

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Levin told media organization this month that the rise in hate crimes represented “a horrifying new era that ry on my head that would have caused concussions, except for a big bruise on my nose,” Arriola stated, He said it

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