Smiths Station News

A Lee County jury finds a former Russell County Sheriff's Corrections officer not guilty of killing his son-in-law last October.

Jose Velazquez remembers the exact date that the car he was driving crashed into a tree.

Gregory Lance Henderson, accused of striking Lee County Deputy James Anderson with a car and killing him, waived his preliminary hearing on Wednesday, sending his case to a grand jury.

Hoar Construction said it recently started work on a new school in Lee County. The Birmingham-based general contractor will build the new Smiths Station High School in Smiths Station near Opelika, said a news release.

Residents in the Columbus neighborhood of Gregory Lance Henderson, the man charged with running over and killing a Lee County Sheriff's deputy last week, were mum when asked about the man on Monday.

The barefoot body of Lee County Deputy James Anderson rested at the front of First Baptist Church Tuesday afternoon.

A Georgia man had been booked into a jail 16 times in the past 11 years and was on parole from a 2007 felony drug conviction when charged with capital murder in the death of an Alabama deputy last week, the Ledger-Enquirer reported.

A Lee County sheriff's deputy was badly injured this afternoon when struck by a car fleeing a traffic stop on a county road in Smiths Station, WFSA TV in Montgomery reports.

Lee County Sheriff's Deputy James Anderson was killed in the line of duty Thursday after being run over by a vehicle during a traffic stop on Lee Road 240 in Smiths Station.

A body was found in the woods in Smiths Station, Ala., on Sunday, though authorities don't suspect foul play, the Lee County coroner said.

Lee County officials are investigating after deputies found a body decomposing in a wooded area.

A handful of homeowners say construction of a new high school in Smiths Station is taking a toll on their homes and yards.

Posted by: John Shryock - bio email OPELIKA, AL - The Lee County Crime Stoppers program says it's offering a reward for any information leading to the location of Debra West Schierling, 57, of Smiths Station.

The Russell County Panthers are looking for their first region win after losing a nail biter to Northview last Friday.

Some East Alabama schools are looking to the public to help address the state's high school drop-out dilemma.

Some East Alabama schools are looking to the public to help address the state's high school drop-out dilemma.

The Lee County Board of Education voted with one abstention to hire Jerrell Brown as the Clerk-of-the-Works. District 5's Fred Copeland Jr.

Nine of 12 Lee County Schools joined other schools in Alabama to make up the 86.48 percent of schools across the state that met 100 percent of their goals to achieve Adequate Yearly Progress in reports released Monday by the Alabama Department of Education.

A 32-year-old Phenix City man died Friday after his motorcycle crashed into an SUV in Smiths Station.

A 26-year-old Smiths Station, Alabama, man pleaded guilty this week to trafficking in stolen explosives.