A mediaman was gunned down in a motorcycle chase in EB Magalona town, Negros Occidental, at about 5:50 p.m. yesterday.

Killed was Niel Aranga Jimena, 42, of Barangay San Isidro, La Paz, Iloilo, but currently residing in Hacienda Teresa, Barangay Alicante, EB Magalona, SPO4 Leonardo Cobing, EB Magalona police officer-in-charge, said last night.

Jimena, an Iloilo radio blocktimer, had worked for the defunct dyRP in Iloilo and dyAG in Cadiz City in Negros Occidental, and was set to start a blocktime program at Radio Mindanao Network-dyRI Iloilo tonight, his friend Larry Trinidad, a reporter for dyHB-RMN Bacolod, said.

An epileptic boy was found dead and buried in mud at the shoreline of Brgy. Singcang-Airport in Bacolod City yesterday.

The fatality was identified as Bryan Guardario, 12, of Yulo’s Park in Brgy. 13, Bacolod, by case investigator Police Officer 2 Art Zureta of Police Station 8.

Barangay Captain Rosenie Distrito said he was informed that Guardario was found lying on his stomach by several children, who were collecting sea shells at the shoreline of Purok 6 in Sitio Magsungay in the barangay, at about 10:45 a.m.

Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia garnered 17 more votes over former Bacolod Rep. Monico Puentevella based on the initial results of the recounting of protested ballot boxes at the Commission on Elections First Division in Manila, City Legal Officer Joselito Bayatan said yesterday.

Puentevella filed an election protest before the COMELEC on May 24, 2010 seeking the annulment of the proclamation of Leonardia, and cited massive fraud and irregularities in the casting, counting and transmission of votes committed by the Board of Election Inspectors in connivance with the mayor.

He also filed a motion for recount of votes in the precincts where he lost.