Muscogee County News

Louis Fudge was 16 years old when he hijacked an elderly couple's car in September 2008 in the driveway of a 13th Avenue home.

A woman found inside a car early Tuesday died from manual strangulation, authorities said.

The Rev. Joseph Roberson, the district superintendent of the Statesboro District of the South Georgia United Methodist Conference, was killed late Saturday after the car he was riding in collided with a truck in Screven County.

Students at Carver High School will be moved to Baker Middle School and Baker and Marshall Middle School students will share one campus beginning in the 2010-2011 school year.

Early voting in the Georgia House District 129 runoff between Steve Earles and Kip Smith is under way.

A West Point city councilwoman was to go before a Columbus judge today after being arrested on misdemeanor charges of serving alcohol without a license.

Lisa Ellen Taylor, 47, of Columbus was found dead early this morning in a car parked at Riverside Drive and 25th Street.

Columbus attorney Mark Casto told jurors in the Mark Shelnutt federal criminal trial Wednesday afternoon that he signed a letter to the Muscogee County District Attorney calling for an investigation into the Metro Narcotics Task Force because he believed Shelnutt was in line to become a Superior Court Judge.

After months of contract negotiations, Hughston Clinic and Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital have renewed their contract with United Healthcare.

A man walking along Victory Drive early this morning was struck by a vehicle and killed.

A second fatal fire in as many days claimed the life of an unidentified 49 year old man.

Pine Mountain businessman Steve Earles has less than four weeks to figure out how to cut into Kip Smith's large advantage in the race for the vacant Georgia House 129 seat.

Derrick Lamar Johnson told Columbus police he had a loaded .357 Magnum cocked in his lap in the back seat of a 1995 Ford Taurus Tuesday night when he dropped the gun and it went off, fatally shooting the driver in the back.

Columbus fire officials say that one man is dead and another person is in the hospital being treated for smoke inhalation as a result of a house fire Wednesday night on Estes Drive.

A LaGrange, Ga., police sergeant was arrested in downtown Columbus on Halloween and charged with DUI, police records show.

A new federal report shows that more than 16,000 Georgia education jobs were saved or created through stimulus funding.

One in a series Four candidates, all Republicans, are running in a special election Tuesday to succeed Vance Smith Jr.

Three men convicted on multiple charges of armed robbery and aggravated assault were sentenced Thursday to more than a decade in prison.

Carlos Rodriguez, accused of fatally stabbing a soldier in November 2008, was indicted on murder charges Tuesday by a Muscogee County grand jury.

Jurors were moments away from entering the courtroom on Monday and hearing opening statements in the murder trial of Albert and Ashley Debelbot - the husband and wife accused of causing the death of their 3-day-old child.