Columbus GA

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Non-profit organization, SafeHouse Ministries, is attempting to help unhoused individuals in the Columbus area by shuttling them to warming shelters when temperatures reach below freezing this week. WEATHER FORECAST: A brief warm-up before the Arctic chill returns SafeHouse Ministry officials...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - Cortez Turner, accused of killing 22-year-old Jacarie Charles on Aug. 29 at Shirley B. Winston Recreation Center, appeared in court Tuesday for a bond hearing. District Attorney Don Kelly identified Turner as the getaway driver during the shooting. Kelly said the entire shooting was captured...

The nationwide trend of GameStop closures has reached Columbus. The GameStop store in Peachtree Mall, 3131 Manchester Expressway , has closed. It is one of what the “gsclosing” blog covering GameStop reports to be 470 locations closing this month. And it follows what the entertainment website Polygon reported to be...

A bond hearing was held for home invasion suspect Antanavious Butler in Judge Bobby Peters court January 13, 2026. Butler is charged with the murder of Norman “Terry” Lane at his Brookstone Boulevard home in Columbus October 6, 2025. Several members of Lane’s family huddled in the courtroom...

The bodies of nearly 30 dogs were found inside an Alabama home by authorities, with dozens more alive but malnourished. The deceased animals had been placed into plastic bags and discarded in a large pile in the property’s backyard, an investigation by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office found. Some 24 other dogs...

MUSCOGEE COUNTY, Ga. - Two brothers were arrested, and large amounts of drugs were seized following an 8-month investigation into a trafficking organization operating in parts of Georgia and Alabama, according to officials. The backstory:. Law enforcement executed the first search warrant on May 1 in Muscogee County,...

Two brothers are in the Russell County Jail after a drug trafficking investigation. The duo were arrested following an eight-month narcotics investigation regarding a local trafficking organization in Muscogee County, Georgia, and Russell County, Alabama. The investigation was conducted by the Muscogee County...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — A Muscogee County Superior Court judge denied bond to the Alabama man accused in an October shotgun slaying of a Columbus man inside his Brookstone home. An attorney for Antanavious Butler, 26, asked Judge Bobby Peters to set a bond for her client in the death of 65-year-old Norman Terry Lane....

Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan has released the identity of the pedestrian who died after being struck by a vehicle Sunday in Columbus on Veterans Parkway near Almond Road. Bryan identified the victim as 70-year-old Lawrence Allen Sutton. Bryan said Sutton’s cause of death was blunt-force trauma to the head and...

RUSSELL COUNTY, Ala. (WTVM) - Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor announced Monday that a major narcotics investigation led to multiple arrests and the seizure of drugs, cash, weapons and a vehicle. Taylor held a press conference at 11 a.m. ET at the sheriff’s office’s investigations building, detailing a joint...