A Columbus jury rendered a “phase 2” verdict Friday of $2.5 billion in punitive damages in a case against the Ford Motor Company, according to a news release from Butler Prather LLP, a Columbus-based law firm.

John B. Amos Cancer Center at Piedmont Columbus Regional’s midtown medical complex is the first in Georgia to offer this groundbreaking cancer treatment. The treatment, Bi-Specific T-Cell Engager (BiTE) therapy, is showing promising results in U.S. patients with certain types of cancer, including small-cell lung cancer, lymphoma and multiple myeloma. 

Surviving Black Hawk Down, a three-part Netflix series, tells stories of soldiers and civilians who survived the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia.

The effort to play minor league baseball in Columbus for the first time in 17 years achieves another milestone Jan. 30 at Synovus Park.

Okay, Georgia, we have snow, and it’s colder here than it’s been in a very long time. These conditions are so unusual for us, it makes Southerners, unaccustomed to extreme winter weather, wonder just how bad we have it at the moment.

Asked whether state Rep. Carolyn Hugley of Columbus has the ability to be successful in her new role as leader of the Georgia House Democrats, retired state Rep. Calvin Smyre said, “I really think she is ready."

Foster Lambertus was among those throughout the Chattahoochee Valley whose holiday season wouldn’t be complete without a visit to Ludy’s Christmas Lights Spectacular. Now he's picking up the torch himself.

Columbus’ Calvin Smyre, who was the longest-serving member of the Georgia House of Representatives, was honored Wednesday as the intersection of I-I85 and Macon Road was named the State Representative Calvin Smyre Interchange.

A lawsuit filed by the Columbus-based National Ranger Memorial Foundation to restore the name of a Confederate officer to the memorial and to the elite Army unit’s hall of fame at Fort Moore has been dismissed.

Across the state as communities prepare for tree lighting ceremonies, concerts, art exhibitions, stage shows and more, a theme is emerging: nostalgia.

Leapfrog Group, the health care watchdog nonprofit, uses responses from a voluntary survey and other data collected by federal agencies to grade hospitals on safety.

The Muscogee County Board of Elections and Registration has sued the State Election Board in Georgia to block a new rule requiring a hand count of ballots, saying the move is too late in the process and it will “dramatically” alter election work.

Columbus officials announced Tuesday the arrests of eight Columbus Animal Care & Control workers on 34 criminal charges.

A Columbus attorney will be part of the team taking on corporate giant 3M over “forever chemical” contamination in Georgia.

Since its inception in 2000, Trees Columbus’ goal has been to protect and restore Columbus’ tree canopy, which has declined over time. But with little resources and funding, the nonprofit hasn’t been able to make the desired sizable shifts in the urban forest.