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Updated: 23 hours ago
|By Katrice Nolan and Ashlee Williams
Columbus Police Chief Freddie Blackmon presented his strategic plan for the department. Blackmon had 30 days to develop, and present a plan to the council.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 8:18 PM EDT
|By Katrice Nolan
The man accused of stabbing an AutoZone worker has been found guilty of aggravated assault and possession of a weapon during the commission of a felony.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 11:48 AM EDT
|By Katrice Nolan
WTVM’s job fair happening at Columbus State University.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 5:25 PM EDT
|By Katrice Nolan
Court proceedings will resume Thursday morning in the case of a man accused of walking into an AutoZone and stabbing an employee in what prosecutors call a racially motivated attack.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2023 at 11:07 PM EDT
|By Katrice Nolan
Michael Hunt: “Please stop, I have a wife, I have kids. Please stop.”
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 10:25 PM EDT
|By Katrice Nolan
Take a look, this is the sample ballot for the special mayoral race in LaGrange. Only two candidates on the ballot so one choice for voters. The two are long time city commissioner Willie Edmundson and Jim Arrington.
Updated: Mar. 17, 2023 at 10:04 PM EDT
|By Katrice Nolan
“We had a request to go into executive session, for the city attorneys real estate acquisition,” said Mayor Skip Henderson at the March 14th city council meeting.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2023 at 10:42 PM EDT
|By Katrice Nolan
By day, Brad Giles is the preacher of the Chattahoochee Valley of Christ. Outside the church, he helps fight crime, as a previous student in the Columbus Police Pastor’s Academy.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2023 at 1:34 PM EDT
|By Katrice Nolan
We continue to follow details of a newly released strategic plan for the Columbus Police Department. Chief Freddie Blackmon presented the plan to city council March 14.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2023 at 10:59 AM EDT
|By Katrice Nolan
Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan has been using some unusual equipment within his department to haul bodies.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 4:20 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
“A referendum, a state referendum that would allow our citizens in Georgia to vote as to whether or not they would like gaming in the state of Georgia,” says Columbus businessman Robert Wright
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 6:23 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
The 16th Annual Rosa Parks ‘Women of Courage’ Breakfast brought a massive crowd to the Columbus Convention and Trade Center.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 6:19 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
A violent weekend last month in Columbus, but what is the solution to stop the violence? It’s a question for those who work with teens often, Those who talked to us agree it starts in the home.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 11:01 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
Standing room only in Tuesday night’s city council meeting.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 10:57 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
A source close to WTVM gave us an assessment conducted on the Columbus Police Department 10 years ago.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 10:34 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
“She has a name, say it loud, Amore Jo’Veah Wiggins,” says the mother of Amore Wiggins.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 11:02 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
Recorder’s court in Muscogee County is where most court cases are heard for the first time.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2023 at 10:53 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
Former President Jimmy Carter, a humanitarian, a leader, father and husband. From peanuts in Plains, Georgia to the White House in Washington D.C.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 10:06 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
Over 300 people filled the Cunningham Center at Columbus State University to hear about the big issue in the room after several shootings over the weekend in Columbus.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2023 at 10:23 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
“I think the peace and the love for people, and you just want to know is it going to continue, at the level that he promoted it,” says LeAnn Smith, the niece of Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2023 at 12:14 AM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
Mayor Skip Henderson sat down with News Leader 9, and addressed what he says started two years ago. “We had a record number of homicides,” says Henderson.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2023 at 9:22 AM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
With a low number of officers, we looked into who paid Jensen and Hughes, the company that conducted the assessment of the police department.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 at 12:01 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
“I want it fixed now, and as soon as we can do that,” say District 9 council member Judy Thomas.
Updated: Feb. 13, 2023 at 11:03 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
“Amore Wiggins, this is a picture of her,” says Jenkins. Owner of 10th Street Nutrition, Mallorie Jenkins is explaining to her customers the story of Amore Wiggins. “You’ll have to look up her story, very traumatic,” says Jenkins.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2023 at 1:50 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
Elliot’s Walk continues community development project
Updated: Feb. 7, 2023 at 10:57 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
Columbus, a city full of rich history, and now more career opportunities. It’s the second largest city in the state behind Atlanta, but what if someone wants to move to the area? Would rent be affordable?
Updated: Feb. 6, 2023 at 12:21 PM EST
|By Jatavia O'Neal, Jessie Gibson and Katrice Nolan
One of six co-defendants in a Upatoi home invasion turned deadly shooting confesses guilt to all crimes, changing everyone’s once not-guilty pleas to guilty right before the trial’s jury selection was to begin.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 12:44 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
“The community needs answers. We want to know what makes an animal do this,” says the Captain Johnathan Clifton Investigator with Opelika Police Department. “
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 8:58 AM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
County leaders load up for a bus tour for a firsthand look at economic development within the county.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 9:09 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
News Leader 9 met with Yvonne Johnson 11 years ago after she and her son found a human skull in her backyard. Today though, she says it is still very emotional for her to know there is now a name to the remains.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 12:56 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
More details are emerging from Opelika police since the identity of Amore Wiggins and her parents were discovered just days ago.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 6:46 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan and Jatavia O'Neal
WTVM’s reporter Katrice Nolan spoke with Sherry Wiggins, mother of Amore Wiggins, better known as Opelika Baby Jane Doe, in a candid one-on-one interview.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 6:24 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
“If you could talk to Mr. Vickerstaff what would you say to him,” says WTVM reporter Katrice Nolan.“I wouldn’t even know where to start. It always wondered in my mind, all the why’s but now it’s no justification, because now my child is gone,” says Wiggins.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 6:24 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
“She was just a baby, they deprived her of everything, she was a child.” Sherry Wiggins speaks through tears as she tells us how she found out her daughter was brutally beaten, killed and her remains left in Opelika Alabama.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 5:43 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
“We’re over 20 percent poverty rate in Columbus, that’s too high,” says Mayor Skip Henderson. Mayor Skip Henderson says that number needs to come down in our city, and he has a plan to get it done.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 8:55 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
“Anyone that is operating a criminal enterprise in Muscogee County we’re gonna get ya,” says Muscogee county Sheriff Greg Countryman With that promise, Sheriff Greg Countryman has released the 2022 annual report.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 9:52 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
Amore Wiggins now has a name after being affectionately known as Baby Jane Doe for several years. Her skeletal remains found January 28th in a mobile home park back in 2012.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 7:03 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan and Jatavia O'Neal
The story of Amore Wiggins has been unfolding for over a decade now with so many unanswered questions, especially surrounding the man accused of her murder -- her biological father.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 6:05 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
Damon Daniels Jr. walked out of a court room, handcuffed at the wrists and ankles. The murder suspect heading back to jail after a judge refused to issue a bond in his preliminary hearing Tuesday.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 11:31 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
Touch down after touch down!
Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 4:46 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
“I just can’t express myself, I’m so hurt, I’m numb and everything, I just don’t know,” says mother of slain 23-year-old DeAndre Meadows.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 5:44 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
As we enter a new year, the city plans on reaching new goals, at the top of the list is keeping crime low.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 4:31 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
Now that giving season has wrapped up, it’s time to see if you will get a gift from Uncle Sam.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2022 at 10:28 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
Damon Daniels, Jr. is facing murder charges after being accused of shooting and killing 40 year-old Darrelyn Harris and 32 year-old John Burkus on the river walk in Phenix City.
Updated: Dec. 27, 2022 at 10:12 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
“Columbus water works had a busy weekend, responding to calls we had approximately 600 calls this weekend,” says Columbus Water Works Vice President Vic Burchfield
Updated: Dec. 21, 2022 at 4:44 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
Family members grieve as they are told their brother was shot and found dead in an open field near railroad tracks off Cusseta Road and Liberty Avenue. According to Muscogee County’s Coroner, they identified the body as 44-year-old Marcus Spellers.
Updated: Dec. 20, 2022 at 10:44 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
Changes are coming to the Chattahoochee Valley and our weather forecast. With a deep drop in temperatures, local plumbers say this is a busy time of year for them as homeowners may forget to take care of their pipes.
Updated: Dec. 19, 2022 at 10:42 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
A Saturday night domestic dispute in Opelika ends with one man dead and police officers on administrative leave.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2022 at 10:46 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
“They killed my mother and his grandmother,” says Harris-Bush. Shameka Harris-Bush and her son are still grieving after their family member was hit and killed. she had just dropped off a friend. The accident forcing firefighters to use the jaws of life to rescue Gayle.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 10:20 PM EST
|By Katrice Nolan
Five defendants faced a judge in federal court Thursday morning after pleading guilty to fraud charges. They all admit to stealing more than $12 million from the federal government.
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