Category Archives: Local News

It’s been a good year for our hometown’s soulful songstress, D’Ambra Renee. With a new single out this week, the awards and accolades for the RB singer are racking up this year.News Leader Nine wanted to get

Beauregard Elementary School students chant BES is the best Thursday after receiving the 2014 Attorney General’s Safe School Initiative Award of Excellence for District 2. 

Beauregard Elementary School students chant BES is the best Thursday after receiving the 2014 Attorney General’s Safe School Initiative Award of Excellence for District 2. 

President Obama has signed an executive order authorizing the National Guard and reservists to assist in the U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.This development comes after a second American nurse who treated a patient

After a police cruiser slammed into a Phenix City food bank December 2013, the building’s owner is calling for the city to repair it. Marie Ertha, owner of God’s Store House, said she feels since a Phenix

Blackmon Road Middle School recognized students who received all A’s and demonstrated good behavior for the first nine weeks of the semester at the Eagle Day/ Principal’s Cookout on Friday, Oct. 17.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded two universities in Georgia with the People, Prosperity, and Planet (P3) award Thursday, Oct. 16. The grants were awarded nationally to 42 teams of college and university students. 

A spokesperson from Fort Benning said they believe there are no cases of Ebola on post, despite rumors that have spread around Columbus on Friday.

Muscogee County Schools participated in National School Lunch week this week to emphasize the importance of eating healthy meals.The National School Lunch Program is federally funded and it works to provide healthy and nutritionally balanced meals to

A team of Fort Benning soldiers will be sent to Africa to assist in the fight against Ebola.Army officials held a news conference on Friday, Oct. 17 to explain the mission of the group. We are told