Columbus News

Mayor Teresa Tomlinson and Columbus Council meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday on the plaza level of the Government Center.

The fire in the 1600 block of Third Avenue at Railroad Avenue engulfed a building that was once the old Burnham warehouse, Fire Marshall Ricky Shores said.

A Columbus woman accused of stabbing a woman in the back Friday afternoon on Holly Avenue is held in the Muscogee County Jail.

Magean De La Torre's three-run home run keyed a seven-run uprising in the bottom of the sixth inning as Oklahoma City pounded Cal State San Marcos 8-3 in the NAIA Championships at South Commons Softball Complex in Columbus, Ga.

The recent news about the FBI's seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States.

The blossoming IRS scandal over the targeting of conservative groups is provoking new scrutiny and terse questions about the agency's role in shaping and implementing the controversial new national health care law, with the biggest changes set to begin next year.

Some random thoughts as we enter the Memorial Day weekend. Warning: Two of them are related to the Muscogee County School District, one is kind of related but really about whitewater, and one is a story about my dog.

Most of us have had dreams for our lives since we were children. Some have been accomplished.

The Muscogee County Library Board unanimously voted Thursday to offer the Chattahoochee Valley Libraries director's job to Alan Harkness, an assistant state librarian.

Local domestic violence shelter Hope Harbour hosts Bidding for Hope Silent Auction, a fundraising event that will take place at the W.C. Bradley Co.

Army National Guard 2nd Lt. Casey N. Allison has graduated from the Army Basic Officer Leader Course at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga.

Huff was called up from Columbus on May 13. In three appearances this season, he allowed five runs over three innings.

Someone recovered enough to suggest we forsake the heat and go inside where the air conditioner was running full speed.

"We're looking for mid-June at this point," said Milton Hodges, co-owner and director of Baby Bear, of the new center's opening at 2039 Torch Hill Road in Torch Hill Plaza .

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.