Tim Chitwood
Columnist at Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Writer at Freelance
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May 6, 2024 |
ledger-enquirer.com | Tim Chitwood
Attorney Stacey Jackson presents closing arguments in defense of his client Kareem Lane in Superior Court on September 4, 2014. Lane is being retried for murder in the 1992 stabbing death of former MCSD school superintendent Jim Burns. Ledger-Enquirer file photo No one knows how far Stacey Jackson's star might have risen, had a killer disease not cast it into shadow.
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Apr 23, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Tim Chitwood |Kelby Hutchison
Columbus had 57 homicides in 2023, according to the Ledger-Enquirer’s count. That brought the average over five years to 52. The five-year average, at the start of 2023, was 34. Authorities said a gang war that eventually subsided led to a recent peak of 70 reported in 2021, when the Columbus Police Department was critically short staffed. Columbus had had 45 in 2022, and 46 reported in 2020. The Ledger-Enquirer tallied 41 homicides in 2019; 34 in 2018; and 44 in 2017.
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Apr 4, 2024 |
ledger-enquirer.com | Tim Chitwood
Workers are installing a fence around Golden Park in Columbus, Georgia as part of the renovation of the stadium. 04/01/2024 [email protected] The first pitch went by so fast that no one who wasn't in on the game caught it. Late on Feb. 28, 2023, during a grueling, hours-long Columbus Council meeting, councilors passed an obscure resolution that was not on their meeting agenda in two minutes and with no public discussion.
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Apr 4, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Tim Chitwood
The first pitch went by so fast that no one who wasn’t in on the game caught it. Late on Feb. 28, 2023, during a grueling, hours-long Columbus Council meeting, councilors passed an obscure resolution that was not on their meeting agenda in two minutes and with no public discussion.
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Mar 27, 2024 |
ledger-enquirer.com | Tim Chitwood
With a year to go and $50 million in work to do, Columbus pitched its bonds to investors Tuesday to pay for bringing Golden Park up to current Minor League Baseball standards. Columbus City Council on Tuesday approved the $50 million bond sale in order to start upgrades on Golden Park, further clearing the way for the city to welcome an Atlanta Braves minor league affiliate.
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If Jeremy Williams does not plead guilty in the rape and strangulation of 5-year-old Kamarie Holland, whose mother allegedly sold her for sex, he will be set for trial in early April, prosecutors said. https://t.co/C24DX017qJ
With Stacey Jackson out of the race, Acting District Attorney Don Kelly said he will seek election, hoping to continue rebuilding the office after the previous DA pleaded to misconduct. https://t.co/cOTVAZ8Rw6
Though Columbus Council would not OK a $50 million Golden Park upgrade for the Double-A Braves without 1st seeing the bond financing, that's not on the agenda Tuesday, when council's to vote on the construction contract. https://t.co/6tcRtPoAjE