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Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Atlanta, GA – A widespread hard freeze is set to grip nearly all of Georgia overnight, with temperatures plunging into the lower 20s and creating dangerous conditions for crops, plumbing, and early spring...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Officials with the Columbus Police Department are searching for two missing juveniles who were last seen near 5th Avenue last Friday. Officers are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing 13-year-old identified as Drayah Landers, described as a Black female with black hair and brown...

Columbus historian, professor, author and preservationist John Lupold has died. Lupold died Feb. 26 in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to his obituary on the McMullen Funeral Home and Crematory website. He was 83. No cause of death was reported in the obituary, but fellow Columbus historian Ken Thomas Jr. told...

A Columbus judge delivered the sentence Tuesday for a man found guilty of felony murder, aggravated assault and rape in the 2015 death of a woman found in an Alabama creek. Stacey Gray, 55, was found guilty on Dec. 1, 2025, in the death of 25-year-old Renee Eldridge, whose body was found July 7, 2015, in Osanippa...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Columbus police have arrested a person over the weekend in connection with a shooting that occurred near Apex Road on Friday, March 6. Officials with the Columbus Police Department arrested Javontis Powell in connection with the shooting. One person was injured in the shooting incident that...

Somewhere in Seale, Alabama, there’s a museum that throws every rule about museums out the window and replaces them with something far more entertaining. The Museum of Wonder Drive Thru is what happens when someone decides that art should come to you, not the other way around, and the result is pure magic.

Board Chair for the Literacy Alliance Columbus Stephanie Thomas discusses the organization’s mission to empower the Columbus community through education and invites individuals to join their efforts. To be included in our video interviews or if you need video services for your company, please contact us.

Retired Ledger-Enquirer editorial page editor Billy Winn has died. Winn died Tuesday morning from natural causes in Columbus Hospice House, retired colleague Mike Owen told the L-E. He was 87. Funeral arrangements and his obituary are pending. “He was a gift to Columbus,” said Owen, who was city editor when Winn...

St. Anne Outreach of Columbus, the largest pantry partnered with Feeding the Valley , canceled a scheduled food distribution last week, citing a shortage of food at the food bank that has left the pantry struggling to fill shelves. There has been a significant food shortage over the past year, Kelly Tolman, director...

PHENIX CITY, Ala. (WTVM) - The Phenix City Police Department is asking the public for new leads in the unsolved 2003 homicide of Eric Nelams, a former U.S. Army soldier who was shot and killed outside his home more than two decades ago. Nelams, 32, was found dead in the...