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Just ahead of the summer, the Columbus Civic Center could be seeing a new director. This comes after the city council voted on the recommendation Tuesday at their meeting.

After hours of debate, the Alabama Senate passed a bill Tuesday night that outlaws nearly all abortions in the state.

The purpose of the Partners in Education program is to improve education by encouraging meaningful business and community involvement in local schools.

The Columbus alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Inc. hosted the event, which raised over 17,000 items of female products.

New Orleans has bucked the odds and won the NBA draft lottery, and now will have the first chance at choosing Zion Williamson next month.

An Air Force veteran is teaming up with a U.S. congressman to end the loophole allowing convicted rapists in the military to be freed.

Historic Columbus’s participation grant, which is the organization’s largest grant program of up to $100,000, hopes to create enthusiasm in the public about preservation efforts.

Dive teams plunged into the icy cold waters of a southeast Alaska inlet Tuesday, searching an area the size of 24 football fields for two cruise ship passengers missing after two sightseeing planes collided.

The company that makes OxyContin did not stop pitching the powerful opioid painkiller to doctors even when its sales representatives raised concerns that they were prescribing the drug inappropriately, the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office said in a

Tami Tracy, 27, is charged with reckless conduct causing harm or endangering safety after a baby went missing in Columbus last weekend.