Category Archives: Local News

US Senator Ted Cruz (R) of Texas will be the first 2016 presidential candidate to visit the Columbus area – at an event on August 8 at Solid Rock Church in Midland.

On Friday, July 17 at approximately 5 p.m. Auburn Police officers responded to a report of individual passing counterfeit bills at a business in the 800 block of E. Glenn Avenue. Responding officers were given the description

For the first time ever, three women are taking on the Ranger School's extremely intense mountain phase. They have two weeks of grueling training in the north Georgia mountains. 

The Notasulga Police Department made a huge drug seizure in their community on Monday, July 20. News Leader 9 was on hand as police announced the bust of a sizable marijuana grow operation.

On Sunday, July 19 the Auburn Police Division arrested one adult and three juveniles charging them each with burglary third degree and theft of property second degree.  

As Dove walked through the grounds of Bethesda Academy, she said it's the perfect place to grieve and try to find peace. It's also the same place she thought that one day she would get married.

The Columbus Police Department is looking to identify the person they believe is connected to a stolen vehicle incident on Buena Vista Road from July 12.

A Columbus man is in the Muscogee County Jail after being charged and arrested for inappropriately touching a child. According to a CPD arrest report, John Paul Jones, 36, of Columbus, was arrested on July 19.

The Columbus Police Department is searching for a grocery store robbery suspect. On Saturday, July 18 at about 12:32 p.m., police received a call in reference to a robbery at Hometown Grocery located on 27th Street.