Category Archives: Local News

It’s week two for News Leader 9’s Sports Overtime! This week’s Games of the Week are Spencer versus Carver and Opelika versus the Callaway Cavaliers. 

The Phenix City Police Department is requesting assistance from the public and has released surveillance photos.

The Opelika Police Department has made a second arrest in a late July murder near an Opelika mobile home park. 

Another suspect has been named in an April murder outside a Columbus Pizza Hut.

Columbus police are investigating is investigating a bank robbery.

The third murder suspect of the deadly Pizza Hut shooting appeared in Recorder’s Court Friday morning. Tommie Mullins, 24, was arrested and charged with the murder of 32-year-old Branden Denson. 

The Troup County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man for impersonating an officer after a traffic stop for speeding. 

A possible drugging may have happened on the campus of Auburn University.

Controversy continues in Randolph County, GA after the Board of Elections proposed to close several polling locations.

The Muscogee County School District is still trying to resolve school bus issues.