Three weeks before the Feds took Columbus attorney Mark Shelnutt to trial on a 40-count indictment alleging money laundering and drug charges, the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that should have made prosecutors re-evaluate their case, local lawyers said Wednesday.
Columbus police have charged James Louis Brock in connection with the Oct. 13 slayings of Tyesha A. McNair and Terence J. Clark.
Bridal shop owner and West Point, Ga., city councilwoman Judy Wilkinson was found guilty Wednesday of violating a city ordinance by serving a champagne cocktail to customers at her Columbus business Formal Elegance.
Nothing cures a headache like a little blood sucking.
Friends and family were crowded around the door leading into Mark Shelnutt’s office after his acquittal Wednesday afternoon.
Police are now investigating the death of a Columbus woman found inside a car early Tuesday morning as a homicide.
Count 1: Conspiracy to launder money — Not Guilty
May 21: Mark Shelnutt is indicted by a federal grand jury. The indictment alleges a connection between Shelnutt and Torrance Hill.
Thanksgiving came early this year for the soldiers of Fort Benning’s Warrior Transition Battalion.
Jurors in the federal money laundering trial of Columbus attorney Mark Shelnutt began deliberations Tuesday after hearing closing arguments from attorneys on both sides.
Phenix City moved one step closer to solving the flooding problems of south Phenix City this week after meeting with CDG Engineers and Associates concerning an engineering study for the Cachagalechee Creek Watershed Project.
After a brief caucus, Russell County School Board members elected Larry Laney in a four-to-two vote as the new board president.
A Holly Hills homeowner said Tuesday he wants to move out of his flood-prone neighborhood but the city’s appraisal is too low to accept.
The mimosa verdict is in, and it is guilty. Columbus Recorder's Court Judge Michael Cielinski this morning found bridal shop owner and West Point, Ga., city councilwoman Judy Wilkinson guilty of violating a city ordinance by serving champagne and orange juice cocktails to customers at her Veterans Parkway business Formal Elegance. Cielinski gave her a penalty of 30 days' probation.
A flash precipitated the boom and then there was darkness.
U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land dismissed three more counts Monday in the federal case against Columbus attorney Mark Shelnutt, just hours before his defense attorneys presented their side and rested.
It was another $1 million year for TSYS, with the company and its employees raising a record amount of money for United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley.
In a transfer of authority ceremony to take place while most Americans were asleep, the 172nd Infantry Brigade in Iraq was to relinquish responsibility to the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division.
U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land on Monday aggressively challenged the adequacy of certain evidence presented by the prosecution in the government’s drug and money laundering case against Columbus attorney Mark Shelnutt.
Planning on speaking before the Muscogee County School Board? Make it short and sweet.
