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Gaston County 911 got the call just after 3:30 p.m. Monday that Jordan Ann Dumont was missing.

While many were displaced from their homes and uncertain about what will happen to them because of massive flooding, law enforcement said some people tried to take advantage of the situation.

Rebecca Barker sent an email reporting Michael Paul Thibodaux was born early Monday morning at home during the floods. She added she delivered the baby and is his godmother. The baby’s mother is Linda Thibodaux.

Investigators have established a timeline leading up to the day Mark Short confessed to killing his children, along with his wife and the family dog, in a suicide note left at the scene. 

Renata Phillip was 11 years into a satisfying teaching career when she shocked her friends and family last August by deciding to make a drastic career change: become a police officer.

Muscogee County School Board officials voted on filling two vacant positions within the district at Monday night’s meeting.  

For the majority of Erick Hendricks’ time in Columbia, a criminal complaint details that he was recruiting for the terrorist group ISIS.

One man has died following a house fire on Bunker Hill Road in Columbus on Monday night.