A Columbia County woman, beaten in her home, has died. Columbia County Sheriff’s Office investigators say Laverne Parsons was beaten Wednesday after she walked in on a burglary in her home. She died Thursday at the Medical College of Georgia. Her death is the first murder in Columbia County, this year. WJBF News Channel 6’s Renita Crawford has more.

A Grovetown neighborhood is on watch, after a woman is brutally attacked. It happened on Hot Springs Road, in the Orchard Hill subdivision, near Columbia Road. WJBF News Channel 6’s Barclay Bishop has the details.