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MANILA, Philippines — Stanley Pringle capped off his second title run with a Best Player of the Conference award after leading Barangay Ginebra in the 2020 PBA Philippine Cup. The 6-foot-1 guard averaged 18.5 points, on 44.3 percent from the field and 38.3% from three, along with 5.9 rebounds, 3.7 assists, and a steal in 22 games for the Gin Kings for the All-Filipino Conference. Pringle, a two-time champion, beat out TNT teammates Bobby Ray Parks Jr. and RR Pogoy, Phoenix’ Matthew Wright and Calvin Abueva, and Terrafirma’s CJ Perez for the conference’s top individual award—the first of his career. “I always believed that you shouldn’t look at stats and like I said I’ve not been…

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ZARAGOZA, Nueva Ecija — A 64-year-old woman was killed while a 14-year-old boy was wounded in an evening gun attack by two still unidentified men here on Saturday, Jan. 16, police said. Investigators identified the fatality as Julie Ramos, a resident of Benitez Subdivision in Barangay Concepcion. She died instantly while the minor was taken to a hospital in Cabanatuan City for treatment. Ramos was tending to her store when the motorcycle-riding gunmen pretended as customers and shot her several times around 7 p.m., police said. The boy was hit by a stray bullet. Forensic investigators recovered several spent shells from caliber .45 and 9mm pistols from the crime scene. Polic…

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MANILA, Philippines — A House of Representatives committee will look into the spending of the national budget as well as the funds allocated under the two Bayanihan laws created to cushion the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. House appropriations committee chair Eric Yap said the panel will exercise its oversight function to look into how the national budget for 2021 will be spent throughout the year. Aside from this, the committee will also look into the spending of funds under the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act (Bayanihan 1) and Bayanihan to Recover as One Act (Bayanihan 2). “Our responsibility as the Appropriations Chair does not end once the budget is e…

Keep on reading: House panel to look into nat’l budget, Bayanihan funds spending