Category Archives: Local News

It’s been a long wait, but wait finally comes to an end, at least for Georgia high school football teams. 

The Phenix City Police Department needs the public’s help in locating a missing woman. Cynthia Jones, 67, attended a concert at the Phenix City Amphitheater on Aug. 12 and she has not returned home ever since. 

Building a pinhole camera is cheap, quick and easy.

A massive air and sea search is underway for five missing soldiers who were on board an Army chopper that crashed late Tuesday off Oahu.

News Leader 9 wants you to be the next American Idol. Our most talented viewers will be given the opportunity to skip the line at the American Idol audition in Atlanta. 

The man says he felt fine and didn’t want to bother anyone, so he drove himself to the hospital.

A local organization is working to provide parents with the information they need to help their young children thrive.

A man has been shot in a shooting in east Columbus. According to the Columbus Police Department, the shooting happened on the 1900 block of Amber Drive around 4:15 p.m. ET.

Columbus police are investigating a shooting in south Columbus.

Students at Columbus State University returned to fall classes this week and among the changes they’ll have to deal with a new state law now in affect allowing concealed weapons on campus.