Category Archives: Local News

With the latest study paving the way for a high-speed train from Columbus to Atlanta, Mayor Teresa Tomlinson said the results make the Fountain City the ideal launching pad. 

Columbus police are searching for a man wanted for fraud, who may have deposited checks into an account belonging to another person. Police are also looking for a woman wanted for identity theft. 

Witnesses differ as to how a Russian woman came to die in a giant vat of chocolate. 

A researcher said that a rocket that can be launched relatively quickly should be made ready to defend earth from catastrophic asteroids or comets that could devastate life. 

The number of foster care cases in the state of Alabama went from 5,216 to 5,575 from November 2015 to November of this year, according to data from the Alabama Department of Human Resources.

Teachers at a Mid-South elementary school received a shock when a frantic mother rushed to the school with a 2-month-old unconscious.

Several people worked together to save a Columbus man’s life Tuesday night after an accident that left him trapped inside a car. We with one of those people, a sheriff’s deputy who happened to be off-duty at

An East Texas mother is searching for answers after her son was stabbed in the eye at Mike Moses Middle School, and questions why the Nacogdoches Independent School District will not cover his medical costs.

Threats made online are being taken more seriously now than ever. Early Monday morning, Northside High School student Alexander Barefield was arrested for making terroristic threats on social media.

A call to 911 from a dying Richmond 15-year-old may have helped save the life of his mother after she was shot five times by her ex-husband.