Category Archives: Local News

A hostess at Stax Omega, who admitted to police she had been using alcohol, was charged with assault and battery Saturday afternoon after an incident involving customers at the restaurant, police reports state. 

The Laurens County Coroner’s Office said a teen stopped to help a stranded driver on his way home from college when his vehicle was struck by an 18-wheeler early Monday morning on I-385.

Two central Georgia police officers have been shot while serving a search warrant in Crawford County.

At 9:30 p.m., Mississippi Highway Patrol responded to MS 43 heard Goodloe Road in Madison County after getting a call about an accident involving 5 horses and a car. 

A Byron officer is in surgery and another is recovering after both were shot while executing a drug warrant at a home in Peach County early Monday morning.

The customer told her children that if they ate too much ice cream, they would look like the teenager then she wrote a negative Yelp review about the worker’s weight.

A Pima County deputy lost his left eye after a woman intentionally kicked him with her boot heel during a DUI arrest, according to authorities.

A medical student and fashion blogger want to bring attention to the lack of diversity in the modeling industry in a creative and beautiful photo project. 

A Los Angeles radio station says former “Brady Bunch” star Susan Olsen has been fired after she got into an online confrontation with openly gay actor Leon Acord-Whiting.

Several law enforcement agencies from Muscogee County traveled to Sumter County to show their support for slain officer Nicholas Smarr.