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Truth be told, there have to have been times over the years when even the most passionate and committed champions of the Columbus whitewater project privately conceded that it just wasn't going to happen.

The city’s unemployment rate dropped from 8.4 percent March to 7.9 percent in April, its lowest level since 7.7 percent in December 2008.

Officials are offering up to a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the Historic District vehicle fires last weekend, Mayor Teresa Tomlinson said.

Veterans Memorial Middle School eighth-grader Cameron Chandler is the 2013 winner of the T. Hiram Stanley Award, considered the most prestigious honor a Muscogee County School District middle school student can receive.

The Second Division Association is searching for anyone who ever served in the Army's 2nd Infantry Division at any time.

Robert Wadkins, Muscogee County's chief public defender, appeared before Columbus Council Tuesday morning to appeal the budget cuts his department is being asked to make.

An estimated 26,300 city voters will be eligible to cast ballots in a special election June 5, to decide if Columbus will change from a five to a seven-man commission, including an elected mayor.

Don Thompson is set to join a long list of CCC softball officials chosen to work the NAIA softball championships final site Thompson will travel to Columbus Georgia for the 2013 NAIA Softball Championships being held May 24-30. A resident of Salem, Thompson has been officiating collegiate softball for the past 10 years with this being his first ... (more)

Aflac said Wednesday it is shuffling key management positions and duties to strengthen the company, with the moves obviously setting up an eventual succession plan.

I need to hear more about the deliberations within the superintendent's cabinet that led to support for closing schools knowing it means larger class sizes.

Small Business Week in Columbus continues Wednesday with “boot camp” sessions on contracting and social media, with the half-day event taking place at Columbus State University’s Cunningham Center, 3100 Gentian Blvd.

Faced with the possibility of laying off firefighters to meet proposed budget cuts, Columbus Councilor Gary Allen restored about $700,000 in Columbus Department of Fire and Emergency Services funding for fiscal 2014, temporarily at least.

"We're portrayed by Republicans as either being lying or idiots," said one Obama administration official who was part of the Benghazi response. "It's actually closer to us being idiots."

DreamWorks Studios movie "Need for Speed" will film scenes in Columbus during the first week of June, a publicist for the movie confirmed today.

Another round of pre-trial hearings on multiple defense motions was to begin Monday in Columbus’ death-penalty murder case against Ricardo Strozier, the alleged burglar accused of killing disc jockey David Heath Jackson on Sept.

This year's Run for the Heroes does not begin until Wednesday, but its fundraising goal of $100,000 has already been passed.

The White House on Monday once again added to the list of people who knew about the IRS investigation into its targeting of conservative groups - saying White House chief of staff Denis McDonough had been informed about a month ago.

What happens after those words are uttered is usually spectacular — and often really stupid.

Would all you Sound-Offers stop yelling and hold a pleasant thought for just one hour? I'm trying to take a nap.

Today's opening is from Proverbs. And speaking of birds, Hal Kirven paid Habitat for Humanity $100 for the birdhouse sculpture I made for a fundraiser, and he since has been trying to give it away, as evidenced first by this email to Richard Bishop of Uptown Columbus, and second by his follow-up message to me: I have in my possession, a "sculpture" ... (more)