Tuesday, June 18 2013 6:32 PM EDT2013-06-18 22:32:07 GMT
A special guest speaker from New Jersey made it all the way down to Fort Benning on Tuesday June 18 to speak to soldiers about post traumatic stress.More >>
A special guest speaker from New Jersey made it all the way down to Fort Benning on Tuesday June 18 to speak to soldiers about post traumatic stress.More >>
Tuesday, June 18 2013 6:28 PM EDT2013-06-18 22:28:11 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 >>
Tuesday, June 18 2013 6:21 PM EDT2013-06-18 22:21:09 GMT
The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction of Charles Bulloch of Harris County. Bulloch was convicted along with two other men in the death of Paul McKeen Jr. in 1990.More >>
The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction of Charles Bulloch of Harris County. Bulloch was convicted along with two other men in the death of Paul McKeen Jr. in 1990.More >>
Tuesday, June 18 2013 6:16 PM EDT2013-06-18 22:16:08 GMT
Columbus City Council members have approved the final budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The budget is over $260 million and will not require any city departments to cut positions.More >>
Columbus City Council members have approved the final budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
The budget is over $260 million and will not require any city departments to cut positions.More >>
Tuesday, June 18 2013 6:12 PM EDT2013-06-18 22:12:21 GMT
The Alabama Department of Education has just released a list of 78 "failing" schools. This is based on new criteria by the Alabama Accountability Act, a controversial school choice law recently approved by More >>
The Alabama Department of Education has just released a list of 78 "failing" schools.
This is based on new criteria by the Alabama Accountability Act, a controversial school choice law recently approved by legislators.More >>
PHOENIX (CBS5) -
Some members of the Phoenix City Council will be briefed on the results of a 4-month review of the city's ethics policy Wednesday morning.
A volunteer task force put together a 20-page report recommending changes to the city ethics policy for employees and elected officials.
The biggest eye-opening thing for task force members was finding out that city workers are held to a much higher ethical standard than elected city officials. In fact, the task force found that in some instances, no ethics policy existed for elected officials.
Recommendations for elected officials include:
Developing a policy to require the reporting of gifts
Putting a discipline procedure in place for ethics violations
Having an overall policy that measures elected officials by the same high ethical standards as city workers.
"We have a good City Council. We have a great mayor. I believe that they'll want to exceed expectations," said Ernie Calderon of the ethics task force. " If they exceed expectations by adopting our recommendation, in turn the rank-and-file employees would have a lot more confidence in their leadership and we citizen's will feel we have a clean City Hall."
The report will be presented to the city's public safety subcommittee Wednesday morning before it's introduced to the full council. Calderon and former County Attorney Rick Romley, who chaired the task force, will make the presentation Wednesday.
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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 5:57 PM EDT2013-06-18 21:57:08 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 5:54 PM EDT2013-06-18 21:54:26 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 >>
(Source: CBS 5 News)
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