Category Archives: Local News

The Chambers County Sheriff’s Office arrested 60 individuals on multiple in the past 17 days. 

COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) – The city of Columbus has just announced that the Government Center will close Monday due to a water leak that has flooded several offices inside the building.  All portions of the center were

Nearly 2,000 children were separated from their families over a six-week period in April and May after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new "zero-tolerance" policy that refers all cases of illegal entry for criminal prosecution.

Prosecutors say the 31-year-old kicked the victim, broke his ribs and strangled him.

Video of the encounter, in which an ER doctor laughs at and belittles a 20-year-old patient, has been viewed more than 4 million times on Facebook.

It’s a special celebration at the Liberty Theatre in Columbus. Organizers with the Juneteenth organization says it’s a commemoration of the emancipation from slavery in Texas today in the year 1865…

The first of many Hands Across the Border-Lake Eufaula was held Friday evening on the Ernest Vandiver Causeway. Officers and Deputies from the Georgia State Patrol, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Quitman County Sheriff’s Department…

Hundreds of children are waiting away from their parents inside a Border Patrol holding facility in South Texas, with groups of 20 or more children to a single cage.

Hunter Katich is a 21-year old Auburn student who knows the Chattahoochee all too well. He competed for the 5th time in the Go-Pro Mountain Games in Vail, Colorado, this time bringing home the gold medal. 

The 74th Annual Miss Georgia Pageant concluded last night at the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts in Columbus, Georgia. There were 53 women from across the state competing for an academic scholarship and the title of Miss Georgia 2018.