COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — The Muscogee County Jail was a hot topic at the Columbus City Council meeting Tuesday, as city councilors debated how to allocate the funding needed to improve the jail. The jail, currently housing over 1,000 inmates, is at capacity. Muscogee County Sheriff Greg Countryman says major improvements need to be made before […]
Members of the Muscogee Creek Nation have held a memorial service in Alabama to mark the 210th anniversary of a battle which was the single bloodiest day of conflict for Native Americans with US troops. Prayers and songs of remembrance carried across the grassy field where more than 800 Muscogee warriors, women and children perished […]
One of the most significant increases in crime statistics cited by the Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office for last year was the skyrocketing value of seized drugs. The office saw a nearly 10 times increase in the value of drugs seized, according to the sheriff’s office 2023 annual report, with a total value of $21.1 million […]
Clouds of diesel that have blanketed school bus drivers and students for a century are becoming a thing of the past in school districts across the U.S. and throughout 15 school districts in Georgia, including two that neighbor Muscogee County. This month, Meriwether and Chattahoochee County received 12 electric school buses from the EPA Clean […]
In November, 2018, the legislative body of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation—a self-governed tribe in Okmulgee, Oklahoma—called an emergency session to repeal a three-year-old law that guaranteed a free press. Of the five hundred and seventy-four federally recognized Native American tribes, only five have codified press freedom. “This isn’t personal against the newspaper staff, but there’s […]