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The Columbus Police Department reallocated resources and assigned officers to patrol neighborhoods in December with the goal of reducing traffic-related deaths and residential theft and burglaries.

Mike Sorrentino, who starred on “Jersey Shore” from 2009-12, began an eight-month sentence on Tuesday in New York.

Spring graduates from Columbus State University’s College of Education will now have a guaranteed job in the Muscogee County School District. It’s all through a unique partnership between the both entities.

The organization was presented an award celebrating a 20-year partnership with the Columbus Police Department’s Bike Patrol and Motor Squad.

A Kentucky man is behind bars after police say he carried an unresponsive woman into the men’s bathroom of a McDonald’s after he gave her what is suspected to be methamphetamine.

The 15-year-old was lured “by the promise of a better life” police said, but instead was held in a “filthy trailer, covered in animal feces” and sexually abused.

Mexico Beach is still trying to recover three months after Hurricane Michael.

The Columbus area is down in terms of the entire state, but the state isn’t doing so bad nationally.

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 8, appearing as one of the new Democratic majority’s first witnesses as they seek to provide more stringent oversight of President Donald Trump.

According to officials, the Muscogee County Jail is reportedly packed to capacity.