https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article316320566.html https://img.thecontentserver.com/43910efd-23fb-48d0-8017-58897761f8c9/1_th.jpg 'Havoc is part of my family.' K9 Havoc's handler gives update on condition A local artist and a police advocacy group have partnered to raise money for a Columbus K9 police dog wounded in the line of duty. Columbus artist Randy Nguyen gifted portraits of K9 officer Havoc to the Columbus Police Department at a Monday morning news conference in the Public Safety Center. Prints of those portraits are now on sale help pay for Havoc’s recovery. “As a gift from Randy, the actual paintings will be donated,” said Jed Harris, chairman and co-founder of Back Columbus Blue, “That’s a gift from him to the Columbus Police Department.” Learn more about Havoc here. https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article316320566.html/video-embed 106 2026-06-30T00:28:56Z no https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/living/travel/article316335543.html https://img.thecontentserver.com/4f0f770d-5d14-4beb-97c7-077688e27734/4_th.jpg Go inside the Columbus, GA coffee shop that inspired The Chalice in "Theo of Golden" Book clubs and fans of Allen Levi’s “Theo of Golden” are coming to Columbus, Georgia, to visit places like Fountain City Coffee, Broadway and the Riverwalk. “This is the first time I’ve come to Fountain City, and I’ve lived here many years,” Midland resident Cheryl Buttler told the Ledger-Enquirer during her June 25 visit. “I thought it was really quaint, and I was happy to see that the way that I pictured it in my mind is the way it looks.” https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/living/travel/article316335543.html/video-embed 65 2026-07-01T09:00:00Z no https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article316337359.html https://img.thecontentserver.com/3881e5bf-39a1-4a38-b03e-d18558449ebd/1_th.jpg Columbus, GA artist talks about drawings that helped inspire 'Theo of Golden' What started a decade ago as a simple request to decorate a Columbus coffee shop’s walls with portraits has snowballed, thrusting an already well-known local artist into a much brighter spotlight. This surge in popularity has brought fans of Harris County resident Allen Levi’s best-selling novel “Theo of Golden” to Columbus artist Garry Pound’s doorstep, an in-person visit from a movie production company and calls from Oprah Winfrey’s podcast producers requesting his help. The sudden attention for the artist whose “Fountain City Faces” portraits helped inspire Levi’s uplifting story was built one drawing at a time. Learn more here. https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article316337359.html/video-embed 83 2026-06-02T09:00:00Z no