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Abortions would be banned after 20 weeks under a bill that Republican lawmakers hope to pass Thursday and add to legislation already on its way to GOP Gov. John Kasich that would prohibit abortions once a fetal

A Columbus man has been arrested on child molestation charges.  Leon Antonio Noid, 36, was taken into custody on Friday, Dec. 2 at about 3 p.m.  He is scheduled to appear in Recorder’s Court on Thursday, Dec.

The Columbus Optimist Club held its Annual Signing Santa Christmas Party for deaf and hard-of-hearing elementary school children. 

Wednesday, Dec. 7 is the 75th Anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which led to the U.S. entering World War II. In the attack, more than 2,000 Americans were killed with 1,100 injured.  

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced two children are charged with aggravated arson in connection with the deadly wildfires that destroyed hundreds of buildings, killed at least 14 people, and injured dozens more in East Tennessee.

Georgia Southwestern State University is currently under a campus-wide lockdown following an off-campus shooting Wednesday where two officers were shot. 

A man hunt is underway in Americus for a suspect who shot two law enforcement officers, killing one. The other is in critical condition, according to authorities. 

Russell County Sheriff’s Investigators need your help identifying two males who burglarized a business in Fort Mitchell, AL.

Investigators zeroed in on a refrigerator and other electrical appliances as possible causes of the fire at a warehouse in Oakland that killed 36 people, as crews were set to finish their search for bodies.

One of the five suspects currently in jail for the brutal beating of an 83-year-old Meriwether Co. woman is in more trouble.