Category Archives: Local News

The Columbus community is remembering one of their own two days after a fatal shooting. Joseph McDaniel,19, of Columbus was killed at the Summer Stone Apartments in Rome after being shot.

There are scary costumes and then there’s the Spookie Poochie parade. People from the community Monday along with family members of Columbus Hospice brought out their dogs for a pet costume parade.

A new emergency health care option is in the works for the city of Auburn. Right now, all patients in Lee County with emergencies are directed to the East Alabama Medical Center (EAMC).

A big step forward for Columbus State University Monday as TSYS opens a new cybersecurity school at the Turner College of Business on the main campus.

Two New York City police detectives are accused of threatening an 18-year-old woman with arrest over a bottle of prescription pills, handcuffing her, driving her around and then raping her, authorities said Monday. 

The Muscogee County School District and Columbus police are investigating allegations of inappropriate phone communications between an educator and student.

Opelika police have made an arrest in a fatal traffic accident from September.

Governor Nathan Deal announced that Georgia has been named the top state in the nation in which to do business for the fifth consecutive year by Site Selection, a leading economic development trade magazine.

The City of Hogansville has issued a boil advisory on Monday.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey announced that Milwaukee-based Briggs & Stratton Corp. plans to begin production of Vanguard big block V-twin engines at its Auburn location in 2018.