Category Archives: Local News

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.

A crash involving two commercial vehicles is causing major delays in Tuscaloosa County. The crash happened just after 9 a.m. on I-59/20 north at mile marker 82 near Vance. Both northbound lanes are blocked. One person has been injured.

According to authorities, Robert Stackowitz escaped from a Carroll County Correctional Institute in 1968. He was serving a 17-year sentence from a 1966 robbery-by-force sentence. 

A wildfire started in an impact area near Main Post last week from military training activities and continues to burn.  The fire is contained within the firebreaks of the impact area.  The smoke did not impact populated