Category Archives: Local News

The Urban League of  Greater Columbus is offering its Summer Youth Jobs Empowering Program to help youth find jobs for the summer. 

Historic Columbus hosted its 10th annual Box City Summer Art Camp awards ceremony Thursday. 

The 74th annual Miss Georgia Pageant is underway at the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts in Columbus. 

The Chambers County Drug Task Force and the Lanett Police Department have been investigating several individuals for allegations of unlawfully distributing controlled substances. 

Hands-Free will be the new Georgia law starting July 1.

Police in West Point are investigating a deadly shooting of a 50-year-old Alabama man.

Columbus police are investigating a burglary at an Autism Learning Center located on Veterans Parkway. 

The Madison County Sheriff’s Office tells us that 26-year-old Yoni Martinez Aguilar was arrested in connection with the murder of 13-year-old Mariah Feit Lopez

The Miss Georgia contestants visited children in the hospital, and it hit close to home for one Columbus family whose daughter was recently diagnosed with Osteomyelitis, a bone infection. 

A former Phenix City chiropractor and Columbus resident pleaded guilty to wire fraud. On Wednesday, June 13 Dr. Kenneth G. Edwards, 65, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud.