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The signing day ceremony is a recognition program that honors students in Muscogee County who excel in academics.

Wayne LaPierre, the fiery public face of the National Rifle Association for decades, fended off a backlash inside the organization over its finances and direction, winning re-election Monday as the gun lobby’s CEO.

In addition to a 36-month study, recent standardized test scores put students well above the national average.

The study published Monday can’t prove that the Netflix show “13 Reasons Why” was the cause, but there were 195 more youth suicides than would have been expected in the nine months following the show’s March 2017

Water pollution charges were filed Monday against a company that owns a Houston-area petrochemical storage facility where a large fire that burned for days in March caused chemicals to flow into a nearby waterway.

The man accused of killing five people at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, changed his plea Monday to not guilty by reason of insanity.

The Safety Fire Commissioner’s Office, along with the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office and the Cuthbert Police Department, is investigating a string of fires that all happened in the Cuthbert area.

The Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office said between two major events held here in Columbus, more than 700 pounds of medications were taken in and are going to be properly destroyed.

His departure ends a nearly two-year run defined by his appointment of a special counsel to investigate connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Filmmaker John Singleton, who debuted with the Oscar-nominated “Boyz N the Hood” and continued making movies that probed the lives of black communities in his native Los Angeles and beyond, has died.