Category Archives: Local News

The Miss Georgia Pageant will celebrate seventy- four years, June 12-16, in the Bill Heard Theatre at RiverCenter for the Performing Arts in historic Uptown Columbus, Georgia. Ninety-nine women, from across the state will compete for academic

Alivea Cox, who was heading into the ninth grade at Richmond Hill Middle School, was diagnosed with Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (ALCL) after being sick for a few weeks and discovering a lump. Her case had been referred

News Leader 9 has confirmed that the body found at Lake Eufaula on Friday, May 25 has been identified. Police say 57-year-old Jeffrey Melton, a Columbus missing man, was identified as the man found in the lake. 

The obituary appeared in the print and online editions of the Redwood Falls Gazette in Minnesota.

Smiths Station is excited to announce that the Jones Store Museum will be opening in the late summer of 2018. City staff and volunteers have worked hard to successfully curate items that tell about their local history. 

An Indiana mother is warning parents after she says her daughter was the target of a possible abduction attempt at a highway rest stop. 

Dr. Paula Walker-King stopped by News Leader 9 to give us some more detail about Alzheimer’s and give us some tips on how to keep our brains healthy. 

The judge was targeted for recall in June 2016 shortly after he sentenced Brock Turner to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a young woman outside a fraternity house on campus.

A truck has overturned at the intersection of two roads in Columbus.

The Columbus Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a missing 15-year-old.