Category Archives: Local News

Playoff hopes for the Columbus Cottonmouths officially ended Saturday night as the Snakes fell to the Louisiana Ice Gators, 5-3.

People came together on Saturday to honor the late Reverend William Boddie Junior at Gaines Chapel AME Church. Boddie was a long time minister and community leader in Phenix City who spent 57 years ministering in Alabama.

LaGrange Police Department have confirmed that a person was struck and killed by a train near Cannonville Road. The incident happened on April 2 around 12:17 a.m. at the CSX Railroad. An autopsy has been scheduled to

The National Civil War Naval Museum is proudly presenting the the 2016 RiverBlast in a special way this weekend. The museum commemorated the 151st Battle of Columbus. This educational and fun event took place at Port Columbus,

A Columbus couple is on the lookout for a police officer because they have something very important to tell him – thank you. Yolanda Arnold and her husband went to Home Depot Saturday morning to buy some

Dogs are truly a man’s best friend. It was an emotional day for a combat soldier and his military working dog separated for several months. News Leader 9 Irisha Jones was at the special event in Pine

On National Autism Awareness Day Autism Hope Center hosted their first ever Light It Up Blue Columbus Walk and 5k at Woodruff Park. Following nearly two straight days of rain the Chattahoochee was still in a state

Columbus police have made arrest in connection to the deadly accident that killed 50-year-old Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas Morgan. 26-year-old Justin Prohaska was arrested in the 500 block of 10th Street on Friday, April, 1 at 8

The Coweta County Coroner’s office has confirmed that three Columbus residents have died following a crash on I-85 near exit 56 on Friday April 1. There was a total of seven people who occupied a Ford Expedition

The city’s first walking food tour, Columbus Eats Food Tours, stops by five local eateries every Saturday for lunch. Columbus Eats owner Shannon Zimmerman joined News Leader Nine Saturday morning to talk about the new food tour, which debuted March