Category Archives: Local News

With the passionate race to the White House stirring opinions from many, Columbus elections administrators say thousands are registering to vote in this important election.

Twenty-one teachers from five area schools participated in training on Tuesday to learn about empowering parents and finding alternatives to traditional student discipline.  

A West Baton Rouge Sheriff’s deputy is among the three people who died in a triple shooting in Pointe Coupee Parish. 

Scientists say the first baby has been born from a controversial new technique that combines DNA from three people – the mother, the father and an egg donor.

WBTV crews were there as a vehicle with the Bomb Squad arrived at the scene.

A high-speed pursuit ended in a crash that killed three people in the Anniston/Saks area of Calhoun County on Tuesday afternoon, Sheriff Larry Amerson confirmed. 

The Senate on Tuesday stumbled over a must-do bill to prevent the government from shutting down this weekend and to fund the fight against the Zika virus. Democrats, demanding money so Flint, Michigan, can address its…

A former Jackson police officer has filed an employment complaint against the City of Jackson, Police Chief Lee Vance and Jackson Police Commander Tyree Jones. The complaint is also against a number of other unnamed individuals. 

What could have been a routine traffic stop turned into an eye-opening experience when an officer decided to drive a grieving man 100 miles to see his family after his sister’s death. 

Police are investigating a murder on the 600 block of Edmond Avenue in Opelika on Tuesday.