Category Archives: Local News

An Elgin woman has been arrested after she admitted to Kershaw County Sheriff’s investigators she stole nearly $100,000 from a church to buy drugs on the street in Columbia.

A family in Texas says a boy enjoyed some Dr Pepper before the family realized that a rat was lodged inside the bottle. The family wants answers. 

Wearing big hair, loads of makeup and high heels, small-town drag queen Ambrosia Starling is the new worst nightmare of suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore.

According to court documents, a Muscogee County jury has decided not to indict a former Columbus police officer stemming from aggravated assault and cruelty to children charges from 2014. 

A local nonprofit organization Overflo outreach Ministries, Inc. is launching a campaign to nominate its president Gerald Riley to receive the Good Neighbor Award during this year’s Steve Harvey Neighborhood Awards. 

A Georgia Court of Appeals has denied an appeal filed by the City of Columbus, it’s mayor and other key city leaders as defendants in a lawsuit regarding two elected officials.

A Georgia man killed in Eufaula, AL over the weekend will be honored with a candlelight vigil later this week. Devanta Davis, 22, of Georgetown, GA was killed in a shooting at the Jazzy Bones Club early Sunday morning. 

The United States Marshal’s Gulf Coast Fugitive Taskforce is searching for two fugitives wanted for capital murder.  On April 27, an adult male was shot and killed at 3230 Virginia Pines Lane in Montgomery, AL. 

According to Major JD Hawk of the Columbus Police Department, a dog was shot during a pursuit of a suspect fleeing police on foot early Tuesday afternoon.