Columbus News

Muscogee County Sheriff's officers have arrested a man accused of trafficking cocaine.

After a two-week break for the holidays, Columbus councilors gather for the first time Tuesday under a change that calls for fewer meetings and work sessions.

Two Columbus men were arrested Monday after police say they found a methamphetamine lab off of Ada Avenue.

Samantha Javors, the former CSU student accused of fatally striking a 16-year-old, pleaded guilty Wednesday to vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident.

The juvenile charged with the Dec. 27 slaying of John O'Neal at Victory Crossing Apartments pleaded not guilty Monday in Columbus Recorder's Court.

A wrench-wielding robber took an undetermined amount of cash from the China Inn Express Monday afternoon.

The 61-year-old Columbus man had just gone inside Lil Kim's Cove early Sunday for a quick beer.

A thief grabbed a purse at the Airport Thruway Kmart Tuesday as a mother was putting her child in the car.

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A 19-year-old Columbus man was shot Thursday night in the parking lot of Alvin Chapman Homes on Alvin Chapman Way.

A 62-year old Ellerslie, Ga., man was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday on Nina Street, Columbus police said.

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Xavier Cannon, 23, of 84 Green Ridge Road, Cataula, Ga., was arrested around 2:30 p.m. today by Columbus police.

War heroes and civic leaders topped the list of those whom death took from us in 2008.

On December 7, 1941, young William Caldwell experienced a moment he will never forget.

Armed men gained a dollar in cash from a robbery early Monday. Columbus police said a 27-year-old Hampton, Ga.

A Saturday night shooting left one dead and put a 16-year-old in custody on a murder charge.

Mike haskeymhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com Blood discolors the grass in this lot at the corner of Third Avenue and Eighth Street in Columbus where the body of Bobby Ramsey, 45, was found.

Columbus attorney Ben Land won $1.25 million on Friday in a neglect case against a DeKalb County nursing home.

A 30-year-old Columbus man was stabbed early Tuesday as he walked to a Circle K, police said.