Tuesday, June 18 2013 10:57 PM EDT2013-06-19 02:57:08 GMT
Authorities have issued a missing child alert for De'Anthony Dejuan Kelly, who was taken by Dor'sayde Gathright in the early morning hours of June 17, 2013. More >>
Authorities have issued a missing child alert for De'Anthony Dejuan Kelly, who was taken by Dor'sayde Gathright in the early morning hours of June 17, 2013. More >>
Tuesday, June 18 2013 10:28 PM EDT2013-06-19 02:28:07 GMT
To help farmers markets everywhere, the Alabama Cooperative Extension System Food Safety Team has teamed up with the University of Georgia and is offering safe food handling trainingMore >>
To help farmers markets everywhere, the Alabama Cooperative Extension System Food Safety Team has teamed up with the University of Georgia and is offering safe food handling training to farmers who sell their products at markets, with the ultimate goal of preventing outbreaks of food borne illness.More >>
COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) -
There are activists in Tennessee demanding that any reference to the fact that some of our forefathers owned slaves be removed from the states school text books.
They want keep our forefathers reputation spotless and without any negative connotation.
One state has already changed their text books to cleanse the record of our forefathers. The founders of our country were great, visionary men who built an incredible way of life for us all.
A lot of them were farmers with large plantations and a lot of them did, indeed, own slaves.
That is a fact that cannot be disputed and cannot be ignored. History is history and we cannot pick and choose what we want to teach in our classrooms based on our own preferences and bias.
Let's tell our kids the truth and let them draw their own conclusions. Let's make sure our kids know the difference between a fairy tale and the truth.
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Tuesday, June 18 2013 9:23 AM EDT2013-06-18 13:23:30 GMT
A 5-year-old girl set up a lemonade stand across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church compound, and now the group is targeting her. Jayden Sink raised nearly $200 on Friday while she sold lemonadeMore >>
A 5-year-old girl set up a lemonade stand across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church compound, and now the group is targeting her.More >>
Tuesday, June 18 2013 5:54 PM EDT2013-06-18 21:54:06 GMT
At a 10:00 a.m. news conference this morning the Alabama Department of Education announced the list of failing schools in the state under the Alabama Accountability Act.Tommy Bice: Accountability Act hasMore >>
The Alabama Department of Education held a news conference Tuesday morning to release the long-awaited "failing schools" list under the state's new Alabama Accountability Act. A total of 78 schools in the state are listed as failing under the education accountability legislation.More >>
Monday, June 17 2013 9:41 AM EDT2013-06-17 13:41:08 GMT
An 11-year-old Columbus girl wanted to do something special to support troops fighting overseas, so she wrote a letter to a soldier in Afghanistan. On Sunday, she found out just how much that simple gestureMore >>
An 11-year-old Columbus girl wanted to do something special to support troops fighting overseas, so she wrote a letter to a soldier in Afghanistan. On Sunday, she found out just how much that simple gestureMore >>
Tuesday, June 18 2013 10:57 PM EDT2013-06-19 02:57:08 GMT
Authorities have issued a missing child alert for De'Anthony Dejuan Kelly, who was taken by Dor'sayde Gathright in the early morning hours of June 17, 2013. More >>
Authorities have issued a missing child alert for De'Anthony Dejuan Kelly, who was taken by Dor'sayde Gathright in the early morning hours of June 17, 2013. More >>
Tuesday, June 18 2013 10:27 PM EDT2013-06-19 02:27:08 GMT
What do fast food, garbage, and a Muscogee County jail inmate have in common? They're all key factors in the prosecution of inmate Michael Crooks. News Leader 9 was the only crew inside the courtroom. CrooksMore >>
Crooks pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to asking his girlfriend Ashley Brummett to help him escape from jail.More >>
Radar Radars are machines that use beams (or pulses) of radiation (radio waves) to detect different kinds of precipitation (rain, snow, hail, etc.).More >>
Tuesday, June 11 2013 7:17 AM EDT2013-06-11 11:17:04 GMT
the family of cousins, aunts, a mother and her son were coming from panama city beach, Florida.... a trip they all get together and take every year during the summer, but this time...their annual beachMore >>
A family of cousins, aunts, a mother and her son were coming from Panama City Beach, Florida when things went all too wrong. More >>
Tuesday, June 18 2013 12:11 PM EDT2013-06-18 16:11:40 GMT
Muscogee County School Board members have just voted to approve the 2014 school year budget.More >>
Muscogee County School Board members have just voted to approve the 2014 school year budget. At a meeting last week there was talk of 20 teacher positions being cut. Now, the school district humanMore >>
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