OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) – An Alabama district attorney on Thursday pleaded guilty to perjury and an ethics charge following trial testimony in which a witness likened his office to a fraternity house. Former Lee County District Attorney Brandon Hughes pleaded guilty to perjury in the first-degree and the use of his public office for personal gain. Hughes will be sentenced…
Alabama State Troopers say a Lee County man has been killed in a two-car wreck.
BEULAH, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man has been convicted of killing a 72-year-old acquaintance whose body was found shot, stabbed, and dumped in a well on the suspect’s property. On Friday, a Lee County grand jury found 59-year-old Hubert Timothy Sprayberry guilty of intentional murder in the December 2019 slaying of James Edmund Clarke. According to testimony presenting during…
Gov. Kay Ivey has awarded a $30,000 grant to an east Alabama nonprofit agency that assists child victims of sexual assault and abuse in Lee and Macon counties.
Alabama State Troopers say an Auburn man was killed this morning in a one-car crash in Lee County. Investigators say 21-year-old Jerimiah Jones was killed when his car left the road, hit a mailbox and ditch before hitting a tree. The wreck happened at about 3:15 a.m. on Alabama Highway 14 about five miles west of Notasulga. Categories: News, Statewide…
The sheriff of Lee County is on the hunt for vandals who dug up the grave of a man buried in 1882. The Opelika-Auburn News reports someone removed the hefty slab and dug a significant hole at the grave of early Lee County settler Samuel Jones. Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones said he can’t say for sure if the vandals…
Courtesy: Lee Co. Sheriff Office A suspect of a shooting that took place at the Del Ranch Bar in the Smiths Station in late December of 2020 is now in custody. Thursday, February 11 Clark County authorities in Nevada informed Lee County Sheriff investigators that they had Alex Omari Rutledge (20) of Phenix City, Alabama in custody in Las Vegas,…
A Salem man is dead following a two vehicle crash on Thursday, February 4, around 5 pm. Williams Kent, 61, died when his 2002 Subaru Forrester collided with a 2006 Ford Mustang driven by Rafer E. Springfield, 18, of Phenix City. Police say Kent was wearing a seat belt but pronounced dead at the scene. Springfield was transported to a…
Lee County Sheriffs Deputies have made an arrest in a shooting that occurred on December 9, in the 500 block of Lee Road 592. The shooting happened in Phenix City. Authorities arrested and charged David Cobb, 19, of Auburn with the shooting. Multiple shell casings were located in the area that spanned the distance between two homes. Multiple victims were located…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is responding to a circuit court judge’s decision to reduce the sentencing of former House Speaker Mike Hubbard. Attorney General Marshall said he was disappointed with Lee County Circuit Court Judge Jacob Walker’s decision to reduce Hubbard’s sentence from 48 months to 28 months. “Mr. Hubbard was convicted of the intentional violation of Alabama’s ethics…
