Category Archives: Local News

Newly released numbers from the Georgia Department of Labor shows the unemployment rate in October was 5.7 percent, down .1 percent from September.

Five foreign nationals were arrested on the Ohio Turnpike and charged with possessing criminal tools and forgery.

The son of a man and woman who were found dead in the Mississippi River has been charged with their murders.

For a few hours Wednesday evening, drivers navigated their way through a heavy downpour with some thunder and lightning in Columbus.

With only one month away from the release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” in American theaters, new footage is being unveiled in this just-released trailer of Episode VII in the Star Wars franchise.

A suspected serial robber who authorities say bit one of his customers while robbing him is in custody. Ricky Lee Ford, 35, was wanted for multiple robberies in Americus. 

Parents listen up! If your young child has a cell phone or tablet, a technology expert has a warning for you. Are you putting the Boogeyman in your child’s back pocket?

The Beat BAMA food drive is in the home stretch. It will wrap up on Friday.

Birmingham police have charged a 15-year-old in connection to three homicides, and possibly a fourth.

Pleas to God and confessions of abuse came to light  in a local child abuse trial as one investigator read the jury diary entries of the defendant. Prosecutors also rested their case at the Taylor County court