(Eagle News) — Former Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago succumbed to cancer this morning (September 29). Santiago, 71, peacefully died in her sleep in their La Vista residence, according to her husband, Atty. Jun Santiago. The former senator, who ran for president in the May 9 elections, has been battling lung cancer since she announced that she had the disease in July 2014. She, however, revealed last year that she was undergoing a clinical trial for a […]