Category Archives: Local News

The ALS Association is crediting money raised through the Ice Bucket Challenge for the discovery of a gene they say is among the most common that contribute to the progressive disease.

The water tested positive for a brain eating amoeba earlier this month.

Sheriff’s investigators say a man fatally shot his 1-year-old daughter and injured his 7-year-old son before killing himself during an argument with the children’s mother along a South Florida road.

Three local politicians with ties to Columbus witnessed history on Tuesday night when Hillary Clinton became the first female nominee for the presidency of the United States. 

According to initial police reports, the shooting occurred after deputies responded to a call just before midnight reporting two suspects rolling shiny objects down the street

Community members and an environmental group on Wednesday sued the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense and the secretary of defense over a plan to turn two Pacific islands into live-fire testing sites.

Two Good Samaritan vessels rescued 46 people Tuesday night who abandoned their sinking fishing boat in the Bering Sea off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, the Coast Guard said.

A group of men were caught on Facebook Live assaulting a driver of an ice cream truck.

While people in other local cities voted, there was talk of money and pay raises in one East Alabama city on Tuesday night. Phenix City Council and department heads discussed the proposed general fund budget for fiscal

Sometimes children of a Pennsylvania couple were locked overnight in dog cages as punishment, a prosecutor said.