Category Archives: Local News

Starting this fall, public school students across Georgia, including those in Kindergarten, will begin learning about preventing sexual abuse in the classroom. 

The Columbus Police Department is investigating a homicide in the area of Hunter’s Ridge Circle.

An Arkansas State Police K-9 officer was killed and a suspect injured in an officer-involved shooting in Mississippi County Monday night.

Investigators with the Russell County Sheriff’s Department has arrested a man and charged him with trafficking.

A woman is recovering after being brutally beaten at the Madison bar where she works. It happened at a popular neighborhood hangout and the violent robbery suspects have not yet been caught. 

Everyone likes to give to others out of the goodness of their hearts when they can, but the Better Business Bureau wants to make sure you are donating with your head as well.

The Russell County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man on several drug charges and one gun charge.

Over the past few months, News Leader 9 has received countless reports of fraudulent services by Residential Roofing and Construction in Columbus and other services offered by Branden Jackson. 

Teachers, parents, and students are preparing to go back to school. In Eufaula,  drivers are going to see a major change in one route to class. 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, West Point Project, announced that vehicular and pedestrian traffic across the dam road will be closed Wednesday, August 1.