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As the 2017 school year begins, a new list of priorities and ideas for the Muscogee County School Board is also underway, but controversy still surrounds incidents and several board members.

The federal government plans to pay tribute to Georgia’s largest barrier island by issuing a special coin.

Columbus State University alumnus and actor Michael Stiggers Jr. has become the university’s first-ever graduate to perform on Broadway.

Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson has released a statement following the violent white nationalist protest this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia. 

Officials have identified the woman killed on Saturday during the "Unite the Right" rally after a man drove a vehicle into a group of protesters.

An Ohio man authorities say plowed his car into a group of counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally in a Virginia college town — killing one person and hurting at least more than a dozen more —

The chaos erupted around what is believed to be the largest group of white nationalists to come together in a decade – including neo-Nazis, skinheads, members of the Ku Klux Klan – who descended on the city

Teenage brothers Josh Spencer and Steward Spencer III have been found after they drowned in the Gulf of Mexico, according to authorities and family.

The state of Alabama continues to face an emergency blood shortage for most of the summer but now a special need for some of Alabama’s tiniest patients. 

The fourth annual Grand Columbus Whitewater Paddle is taking place in the Fountain City with over 1,500 paddlers going down the Chattahoochee River all day Saturday as the largest weekend of whitewater rafting.