Columbus News

Four-year-old Armani Brown gets a balloon bracelet from Slim the clown as her mother, Jahnine Gibson, watches Friday afternoon.

A man suffering from a gunshot wound wrecked his car early Saturday while trying to drive to the hospital.

She was ready to leave Columbus. But those that need her moved her to stay. BY LARRY GIERER - lgierer@ledger-enquirer.com -- Photo by Mike Haskey/Ledger-Enquirer Charlene Hooper laughs on Wednesday.

The ship is taking shape. Columbus' National Civil War Naval Museum slowly is recapturing the USS Water Witch, the Union warship Confederate commandos seized on June 3, 1864, in Georgia's Ossabow Sound.

Millie's Market store manager Freddy Martinez said store cook Walter Paloma sustained a flesh wound in the shooting at 2033 S. Lumpkin Road and he would be O.K. Columbus Police Sgt.

One passenger's bus ride to Columbus ended Friday with a trip to the Muscogee County Jail.

Fireworks light up the night sky over Columbus Friday evening during the Fourth of July fireworks show, the highlight of the annual Thunder on the Hooch celebration.

Columbus Police are currently on the scene of a shooting at Millie's Market at 2033 South Lumpkin Road.

Chasity Hardman, Miss Capital City, is crowned as the new 2008 Miss Georgia by Leah Massee, Miss Georgia 2007, Saturday night at RiverCenter for the Performing Arts during the final night of the 2008 Miss ...

The Atlanta Thrashers signed free agent defenseman Ron Hainsey to add size and youth to their blue line.

It was something she said, something about bald guys with beer guts hitting on her at clubs.

Fire Marshal Tommy Streeter, of the Columbus Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services, said the first firefighters arrived on the scene around 4:30 p.m. No one was injured in the blaze.

Police are looking for a man accused of shooting a woman outside a Columbus nightclub early Sunday morning.

A Columbus, Ga. man is headed to prison after he pleaded guilty to his role in two DUI-fueled wrecks that left a police officer and two men seriously injured.

Columbus Police say a pregnant woman lost control of her vehicle, Thursday afternoon, hitting a van head-on on Interstate 185 and Highway 80 .

Our media partner, the Dothan Eagle, is reporting an 11-year-old from Columbus was killed in an accident involving her family's pickup truck and a bus filled with students.

An 11-year-old Georgia boy has died from injuries he suffered when the truck he was riding in collided with a church bus from Kentucky, authorities said Monday.

A Delaware man is in custody in the weekend slayings of a couple in Harris County, Georgia.

A Columbus woman was crowned Miss Georgia 2008 on Saturday. Chasity Hardman is the second African-American to represent Georgia in January's Miss America pageant in Las Vegas.

The United States Supreme Court has rejected all further appeals of a more than $20.7 million pollution verdict against a Phenix City plant.