The undercover Columbus police officer was looking for an “adult service.”
The Georgia Supreme Court is scheduled today to hear the prosecution’s appeal of a Muscogee County case in which a man’s armed robbery, kidnapping and financial-transaction fraud convictions were overturned because the judge asked a witness where the alleged crime happened.
At first it was Feb. 15, the Monday after Valentine’s Day, but now it’s Feb. 26.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab in Columbus is on life support, and the state is scheduled to pull the plug at the end of March.
An Opelika, Ala., man who police say led officers on a car chase Saturday night crashed his car into a Burger King and had to be freed from his vehicle using the Jaws of Life.
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — An explosion that sounded like a sonic boom blew out walls of an unfinished power plant and set off a fire during a test of natural gas lines Sunday, killing at least five workers, injuring a dozen or more and leaving crews picking through debris for more possible victims.
MIAMI — Philip Wheeler was a star at Shaw High School. He was a star at Georgia Tech. When the third-round draft pick of the Indianapolis Colts hit the NFL in 2008 and didn’t make an immediate impact, it didn’t sit well with the Columbus product.
If Philip Wheeler wasn’t playing in the Super Bowl today, he probably wouldn’t see it.
LAGRANGE, Ga. — LaGrange College students and staff are urging lawmakers to think twice before cutting $29 million from the budget that would eliminate the Georgia Tuition Equalization Grant.
The Muscogee Educational Excellence Foundation announced the 61 honorees for the 2010 Muscogee County School District Teacher of the Year Wednesday at the Columbus Public Library.
A cell phone left behind at the scene of a burglary was enough for Columbus police Officer Alan Malone to track a suspect and solve 20 residential burglaries.
Students at the annex campuses of Hardaway and Northside high schools will have the same opportunities as students at the home campuses, Muscogee County school officials say, but some parents are questioning whether the plan will really create an equal high school experience for those students.
ATLANTA — One look at his budget and Jim Holton knew he’d have to cut one of the few non-classroom jobs in his tiny school district in rural east Georgia.
A $5.9 million ice rink will be the first Columbus project under construction with Local Option Sales Tax money.
Feb. 16: Parents of Carver, Spencer, Jordan and Kendrick will receive applications for transfers in the mail
It was late July, and the New Orleans Saints were reporting to training camp. Barbara Lynch, 75, was in a hospital in Gulfport, Miss., saying goodbye to her five surviving children.
The Cannon Brew Pub in downtown Columbus has temporarily stopped brewing beer and will resume when it receives an appropriate permit from the Georgia Department of Revenue.
Fort Benning hosted a deployment ceremony Friday morning for 13 soldiers with the 926th Medical Detachment who will soon leave for Iraq.
MADISON, Ala. — A ninth-grader shot by another student during a class change at a north Alabama middle school Friday has died at a hospital, officials said.
ATLANTA — If the U.S. swine flu epidemic isn’t over, it certainly looks as if it’s on its last legs.
