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Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 12:07 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
Many of us know someone touched by Alzheimer’s Disease, because 1 in 3 seniors dies from the devastating illness every year.
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Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 4:20 PM EST
|By Holly Steuart
Red Flag laws allow police to remove guns from a person flagged as dangerous or mentally ill.
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Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 at 12:17 PM EST
|By Holly Steuart
One of the bills up for debate in this year’s Georgia State Legislature is House Bill 189.
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Updated: Feb. 13, 2023 at 2:37 PM EST
|By Holly Steuart
During some shifts, less than a dozen officers patrol the streets. It’s not just a Columbus problem. Recruiting more officers is a priority for almost every city in the country.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 8:00 AM EST
|By Holly Steuart
Police and forensics experts never gave up on the 6-year-old girl they called Baby Jane Doe, even when the clues were almost non-existent.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 11:19 AM EST
|By Holly Steuart
Lee County, Alabama Sheriff Jay Jones last week gave a 15 year old boy the chance to be “Sherriff for a Day.”
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 8:18 AM EST
|By Holly Steuart
It’s the first week of 2023…the year WTVM celebrates 70 years of broadcasting!
Updated: Dec. 21, 2022 at 10:41 AM EST
|By Holly Steuart
The WTVM Annual Coat Drive is one way to give…and we invite you to join us.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2022 at 3:26 PM EST
|By Holly Steuart
Roslyn tells the story of a long distance bus trip that left seven people stranded at a Columbus gas station, serving as the Greyhound bus terminal.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2022 at 9:06 AM EST
|By Holly Steuart
In schools across Alabama, South Carolina, and Georgia there have been multiple cases of what authorities call “swatting,” calling police with an active shooter warning that turns out to be a hoax.
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Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 1:53 PM EST
|By Holly Steuart
As the school district investigates, it’s important to encourage your children to be aware of what to do if they see a gun at school…or anywhere.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 9:16 PM EST
|By Holly Steuart
The renaming of Fort Benning should occur in 2023, when the name will change to Fort Moore.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2022 at 12:19 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
We’re all seeing a LOT of political ads on local television stations these days and that will continue, in even larger numbers, until election day on November 8th.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2022 at 12:52 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
The passing of Queen Elizabeth certainly marks the end of an era. Even before her remarkable reign, the young Elizabeth had a natural sense of duty.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 10:15 AM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
Monday was Labor Day, a national holiday created in 1894, setting aside the first Monday in September to honor the American worker.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 10:10 AM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
Paws Humane Society on Milgen Road hosted a pet food pantry for needy pets whose owners feel the crush of record inflation.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 3:24 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
Someone you know may have COVID right now…because it appears nearly every one of us will get COVID, and maybe more than once.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2022 at 10:31 AM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
Our news team recently covered the active shooter training held by the Muscogee County School District and we applaud the officers, trainers and Superintendent David Lewis for taking it seriously.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2022 at 12:47 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
The city of Columbus, like hundreds of other employers, needs to hire great employees.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2022 at 10:56 AM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
Columbus Police recently held another gun buyback event, one of several in 2022.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2022 at 12:29 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
Our former president and once Georgia governor, Jimmy Carter, just celebrated 76 years of marriage with his wife Rosalynn.
Updated: Jul. 5, 2022 at 3:57 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
Eight children died after being left in hot cars this summer…two of them in Georgia, the latest one in Columbus.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 2:59 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
But another special group deserving of a whole month of celebration, only gets one day: FATHER’S DAY.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2022 at 7:49 AM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
Inflation is now 8.6% overall, but it’s much worse, more like 60%, when it comes to gas prices, year over year.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2022 at 8:38 AM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
In Columbus, just two facilities, the Aquatic Center on Macon Road and the Double Churches Road pool will be open this summer.
Updated: May. 31, 2022 at 2:27 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
There are many major failures from every deadly school shooting - including failures of mental health care, critical lapses in school security and the purchase of guns by troubled young people.
Updated: May. 10, 2022 at 2:22 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
It’s the American people who have the power to judge what is - or is not – disinformation.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2022 at 2:28 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
Most people understand that inflation is caused by too much money chasing too few goods. It’s economics 101.
Updated: Apr. 22, 2022 at 1:52 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
75 years ago, baseball officially became integrated thanks to the selfless determination of Jackie Robinson.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2022 at 12:21 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
When local police offer gift cards or cash in exchange for guns, many people think it’s a great idea, and that streets will be safer with fewer guns in circulation.
Updated: Apr. 7, 2022 at 3:57 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
Not many people ever heard of Aphasia…until one day last week when it was reported that actor Bruce Willis would suddenly retire from acting to battle the brain disease.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2022 at 3:19 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
Now, in another disruption related to COVID, the University System of Georgia is waiving standardized tests for some students.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2022 at 12:12 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
A recent measure of just how important the issue of violent crime is, can be seen in the high number of questions on crime submitted by our viewers for the candidates in the first WTVM Mayoral debate we aired live last week.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2022 at 5:31 PM EST
|By Jatavia O'Neal
In honor of Black History Month, Chad Ohing, a speaker from the Tuskegee Airmen Museum paid Covenant Woods a visit today.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2022 at 2:59 PM EST
|By Holly Steuart
If you see something, say something – that was a popular way to encourage Americans to report possible terrorism after 911.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2022 at 8:35 AM EST
|By Holly Steuart
Big law enforcement operations get code names too, like the sheriff’s Operation Zero Tolerance and the Columbus Police Chief’s Crime Suppression Detail.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2022 at 2:46 PM EST
|By Holly Steuart
We simply must confront the gang problem to get gunfire off the streets.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2022 at 1:31 PM EST
|By Holly Steuart
But let’s look at the facts of Georgia’s Election Law.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2022 at 8:17 AM EST
|By Holly Steuart
As part of our ongoing commitment to help the less fortunate, WTVM is collecting gently used or new coats to distribute through the Valley Rescue Mission.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2021 at 1:13 PM EST
|By Holly Steuart
The story of Medal of Honor winner Alwyn Cashe is a story everyone ought to know.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2021 at 8:46 AM EST
|By Holly Steuart
The Annual WTVM Toy Drive is happening right now and your generous donation of a new, unwrapped toy is sure to make a local child happy.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2021 at 3:15 PM EST
|By Holly Steuart
None of us should overreact to the new coronavirus variant called Omicron.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2021 at 1:14 PM EST
|By Holly Steuart
During this week of Thanksgiving, it’s worth the effort to reflect on what we’re grateful for.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2021 at 2:38 PM EST
|By Holly Steuart
The now infamous “supply chain crisis” is having a direct effect on the cost of your Thanksgiving dinner this year.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2021 at 10:49 AM EST
|By Holly Steuart
The recent election for governor in Virginia made big national news. But the winner of another race there has a truly inspiring backstory.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2021 at 10:40 AM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
Active duty military and veterans are the lifeblood of our community.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2021 at 1:20 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
Suicide among our military is always alarming and despite the many efforts to bring down the numbers, not much positive change is happening.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2021 at 1:32 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
Now we can apparently add aspirin to the slowly growing list of possible therapeutics to fight COVID-19.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2021 at 2:54 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
Let’s go behind the scenes at WTVM, so I can share some exciting news with you.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2021 at 2:38 PM EDT
|By Holly Steuart
That was definition of the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993, when two Black Hawk helicopters went down as part of an effort to capture members of a warlord’s inner circle.