Category Archives: Local News

News Leader 9 has more details about what happened right after a fuel tanker exploded on Interstate-185 in Harris County yesterday, November 5, blocking off several northbound lanes.

News Leader 9 has more details about what happened right after a fuel tanker exploded on Interstate-185 in Harris County yesterday, November 5, blocking off several northbound lanes.

Tuskegee University is home to an Electric Vehicle Transportation Center. It is funded by a $600,000 grant that allows the University to work on transforming the country’s transportation network and create educational projects for environmental sustainability.

News Leader 9’s Brittany Dionne goes behind the scenes and takes you inside Today’s Police Academy, Thursday at 11 p.m. on WTVM News Leader 9.

The Tri-City Community Veterans Organization will honor active duty and retired military at a program on Sunday. The group will host its annual Veterans Day service at St. James AME Church on Nov. 9 at 4 p.m.

A man born and raised in Columbus, Ga. has made a name for himself in his new home state of North Carolina.Alan Martin is known in Burlington as the man who has used Olive Garden’s Never Ending

Phenix City renews a contract that could save you money on your utilities. The deal allows processed solid waste to be transported and recycled on farms throughout Russell County. News Leader Nine’s Tyrone McCoy has the details.

The area around Martin Luther King Blvd. in Columbus is the last known location 60-year-old Willie Boddie was spotted. Wanted for probation violation, Boddie according to police is no stranger to crime.

The Ice Bucket Challenge trend may have calmed down, but students at Britt David Magnet Academy are still doing their part to help raise money to fight ALS.

A Columbus man has died after he was shot on his birthday. Robert Bolden, who just turned 44 years old on Wednesday, Nov. 5 was shot in front of Riverwind Apartments in Columbus that same day. Bolden’s