Category Archives: Local News

Last month, the Peppers family had their door kicked in and their Salem home turned upside down. Rita Peppers returned home on Monday, Feb. 23 to find her house had been burglarized and thieves had stolen a

The Empty Bowl luncheon takes bowls decorated and created by local artists and served them with soup for decoration.

Graphic and disturbing are two words many people are using to describe a new pop-up display at Columbus State University. Images of aborted fetuses hung in the free speech area of campus Monday morning, causing quite the buzz.

Opening statements were made on Monday in the capital murder trial of an Etowah County, Alabama woman accused of running her granddaughter to death.

Columbus State University held open forums Monday with the third of its five remaining presidential candidates. Monday’s forum was held with Dr. Chris Markwood, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Texas AM University.

There is now new leadership at Fort Benning. The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, or WHINSEC, held a change of responsibility ceremony Monday.

On Monday, Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. announced NeighborWorks in Columbus, Ga. would be the recipient of a new $395,400 grant from the NeighborWorks national organization. The grant will assist NeighborWorks Columbus in their efforts to revitalize

By FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer Sam Simon, a co-creator of “The Simpsons” and animal-rights advocate who made a midlife career shift into philanthropy and channeled much of his personal fortune into…

Five Columbus residents, including a 5-month-old baby, were shot at Sunday night, according to Columbus Police Department incident reports.

A baby was saved from a Utah river more than 12 hours after a crash that killed her mother.