Crime and Public Safety

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (241+ words) Two Columbus police officers entered Blacklick Creek near Gender Road on August 20, 2026, as firefighters worked to rescue two people from the water. Two officers with the Columbus Division of Police went into the water during the response. 10TV reported that a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (244+ words) TBILISI, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Georgia has ⁠detained ⁠a man who ⁠planned to sell uranium-238 to a foreign national for $700,000, ​the national security service said on Wednesday. The Georgian citizen ‌is accused of illegally ‌handling nuclear material and faces up to ⁠10 years…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (931+ words) Gary Siders Sr., the grandfather involved in the Ohio "House of Horrors" case, has had all of his child endangerment charges dropped after a judge deemed him unfit to stand trial. Judge Laina Fetherolf Rogers made the ruling that Siders…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (353+ words) Columbus police responded to seven shootings and one stabbing over the weekend, leaving four people dead; here's a timeline of where and when each incident happened. The Conservative Party leader also pledged to cut the cost of hiring 21 to 24 year…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (739+ words) A Georgia man who allegedly helped his father, an inmate serving time for murder, scam a DeLand woman out of nearly $16,000 has been arrested, according to the Volusia Sheriff's Office. Sharod Poellnitz, 18, of Stockbridge, Georgia, is accused of being part…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (592+ words) Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Gregg v. Georgia, making Georgia’s rewritten statute the constitutional framework for the modern American death penalty. Gregg was the middle act in a trilogy of Georgia cases that shaped that system. Four years earlier,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (151+ words) A man walked out of a business in the 1500 block of Polaris Parkway without paying for merchandise valued at $34,000, and Columbus police are now asking the public to help identify him. Investigators say the suspect entered the store, gathered the…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (234+ words) COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — A man was extradited from the Russell County Jail to Columbus on Wednesday to face a murder charge in connection with the death of Lawrence Perry. RELATED: 1 person dead following shooting near Northside Industrial Boulevard According to…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (52+ words) Two people were seriously injured after a fire broke out at an east Columbus home Sunday. Fire officials say the fire originated from a cigarette bin. Two people were seriously injured after a fire broke out at an east Columbus…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (819+ words) Georgia’s child welfare agency has been wrongly charging parents foster care fees for children no longer in state custody, and the practice must stop, a federal judge in Atlanta has ruled. In an order Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Tiffany Johnson…...