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Columbus city officials tackled many items on their agenda during a city council meeting on Tuesday.

Around 2,400 Chick-fil-A restaurants across America participated in Cow Appreciation Day, including locations in Columbus.

The right lane closure will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily through July 31 along US 80/ GA-22 (JR Allen Parkway) from the Alabama State line to the Georgia 85 intersection.

The last two years the department has been able to put $10 million dollars toward park improvements.

Columbus City Council approved a $1 million budget for the fiscal year 2020, but the steps for demolition are now underway.

Through donations from the community, the United Way hopes to help about 700 students with its school supply drive.

Authorities said illegal substances were found in the officer’s lunch box, in plastic wrap stuffed inside a burrito.

An 18-month-old Indiana girl who fell to her death from the 11th story of a cruise ship in Puerto Rico plunged from a window inexplicably left open in a children’s play area, the family’s attorney said Tuesday.

The Back the Badge Event will be held at the Village Event Center in Opelika from 5:30 to 9 p.m.

Though Lake Harding didn’t see any major boat crashes over the Fourth of July holiday, Alabama did, with six people dying in boating accidents from June 30 to July 7.