Columbus News

Miss Cobb County Emily Cook, left, clasps hands with Miss Capital City Kristina Higgins, right, during the Miss Georgia pageant in Columbus Saturday, June 27.

About 4,900 Jehovah's Witnesses from west Georgia, east Alabama and north Florida are meeting in Columbus this weekend.

In tree talk it's called a "mortality spiral." Limbs start rotting and falling off, and what was once sturdy becomes a liability.

Linsey Favors, the man accused of killing a 75-year-old women at the state Farmer's Market in 2004, will go free today.

Littering on city streets will get more attention when 100 more Columbus police officers are hired.

Dustin Ray Horton, the Seale, Ala., man accused of causing the death of a former Lee County Sheriff's deputy Monday outside a Columbus Waffle House will have his first appearance hearing today in Columbus Recorder's Court.

Rose is facing a death sentence. Less than a week after her owner died, Rose, a 10-year-old Rottweiler mix, has ended up at the pound - with just two days to live.

A Phenix City man died late Sunday from wounds received in a fight at a Waffle House, and police consider the death a homicide, authorities said.

COLUMBUS, Ga. a ' A second Miss Georgia has been crowned in two days. One day after winning the title Saturday night at the annual pageant in Columbus, Gwinnett County school teacher Kristina Higgins relinquished the post, now filled by the runnerup, Emily Cook, a Marietta law student.

A Columbus man accused of stabbing someone was arrested Saturday night, police said.

Columbus native Tim Wilson, best known as a comedian, has written a book, "Happy New Year, - ted: Theodore Bundy and the Columbus Stocking Stranglings," with writer Roger C. Keiss.

A jury has convicted a Georgia man of fatally shooting his first-cousin to death on a New York City sidewalk a decade ago because the victim had an affair with the man's wife.

Though temperatures won't really be cooling down over the next few days, some rain is expected to fall this week possibly providing brief pockets of relief from the heat.

Numbers from Columbus State University say the soon to be officially open National Infantry Museum could pump millions into the local economy.

Attorney Jason Branch in Columbus was recently named a regional vice president of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association for the 11th Congressional District.

The Lee County Attorney's Office is planning on launching an investigation into online travel sites for not properly paying bed taxes to the county.

Rozelleta Blackshire made bond on a murder charge in early December. She was indicted on a murder charge Tuesday by a Muscogee County grand jury.

A weekend shooting in downtown Columbus sent one man to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the back, according to a police report.

A man was attacked while inside Pretty Pets Grooming early today, Columbus police said.

Lawrence Price spent 16 months in jail on accusations he made bomb threats to Columbus State University in November 2007.