Category Archives: Local News

The annual Muscogee County School District Spelling Bee was held on Wednesday morning. Forty-four contestants competed, and our own Chuck Leonard was the moderator. 

Controversial extreme right speaker Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor for Breitbart, was scheduled to speak.

A 10-year-old was transported to Children’s of Alabama hospital in Birmingham after being hit by a vehicle in Eufaula Wednesday night.

Some Muscogee County School Board members are publicly asking others on the board to vote to fire the district’s current attorney.  District 8 Representative Frank Myers and District 2 Representative John Thomas want the board to hold

The investigation continues in Troup County after a 911 phone call ended in a LaGrange man’s death. James Thompson, 44, died after a confrontation led to him being stunned by a taser.  

In the midst of the National Signing Day festivities, one Alabama school got a big surprise from Academy Sports and Outdoors. The store surprised Smiths Station High School by donating new softball and baseball equipment to support the

A graphic video of a brutal fight at Terry High School has hit the internet. The Sheriff says the students involved used to go to school together in Jackson, and transferred. They got in a fight on

Columbus Tech teamed up with other vocational schools in our area to gather goods for the city of Albany, which was hit by recent storms and tornadoes. 

It’s been five years since the remains of an unidentified young girl were discovered in an Opelika trailer park. A resident’s son discovered the small skull behind her home in Brook Haven Trailer Park on Jan. 28, 2012.

A murder investigation is underway in Lee County after 54-year-old Ricky Brooks, a well-known East Alabama man, was found apparently strangled inside his Smiths Station home.