The Columbian-Progress

12/25/2025

Jail Docket: December 25, 2025

12/25/2025

Obituary: Marilyn Louise Gibbs

12/25/2025

Four people were shot in Greenwood on Christmas Eve, two of them fatally.

12/25/2025

Obituary: Freddie S. Green

12/24/2025

Obituary: Allen “Sonny” McKenzie

12/24/2025

It has been a whirlwind season for the West Marion Trojans amidst their best start in a decade. Through the chaos, though, interim head coach Donald Aaron steadied the ship and helped lift the Trojans to the East Marion Holiday Classic championship Saturday night with a 68-56 victory over rival Columbia.

It has been a whirlwind season for the West Marion Trojans amidst their best start in a decade. Through the chaos, though, interim head coach Donald Aaron steadied the ship and helped lift the Trojans to the East Marion Holiday Classic championship Saturday night with a 68-56 victory over rival Colu...

12/24/2025

Deputies with the Marion County Sheriff's Office were busy chasing suspects Friday as they were led on a high-speed chase that reached 120 miles per hour and had to chase down another individual who attempted to while handcuffed.

12/24/2025

Too often when we hear it’s “never too late,” we get a temporary boost then let the idea fade away almost as if it was never there in the first place. But for Columbia native Jason Mikell, a meteorologist for a TV station in Boston, he lived his “never too late” moment Dec.

12/24/2025

Obituary: Hilton Webster Holmes

12/23/2025

Letters to Santa: Columbia Head Start

12/23/2025

Three Greenwood police officers were injured Monday night at Crestview Apartments when a Life Help patient allegedly experienced a mental health episode and opened fire on them with an automatic assault rifle, according to a statement released Tuesday morning on Mayor Kenderick Cox’s page.

Three Greenwood police officers were injured Monday night at Crestview Apartments when a Life Help patient allegedly experienced a mental health episode and opened fire on them with an automatic assault rifle, according to a statement released Tuesday morning on Mayor Kenderick Cox’s page...

12/23/2025

(Jackson, Mississippi) Today, Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced the sentencing in federal court of Romanian national Loredana Gianina Sava, 36, on one count of Wire Fraud. This case was investigated by the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office with assistance from the United States Secret Service.

(Jackson, Mississippi) Today, Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced the sentencing in federal court of Romanian national Loredana Gianina Sava, 36, on one count of Wire Fraud. This case was investigated by the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office with assistance from the United States Secret Serv...