Lee County News

A driver's license checkpoint was set up on West Point Parkway, off of Interstate 85 Exit 64 on Sunday as part as part of a July 4 safety campaign put on by the Central Alabama Highway Safety Office.

Lee County investigators are still searching for a man wanted in a brutal knife attack.

A Lee County jury Friday found an Opelika man not guilty in the shooting death of an Auburn man more than two years ago.

Lee County authorities arrested a group of Phenix City men suspected in more than 100 car break-ins. Deputies with the Lee County Sheriff's Office arrested Robert Bryan Haefner, 20, Kevin Dewayne Watson, 22, Kerry David Watson, 20, and Christopher Brian Hammock, 19, on Wednesday.

Lee County School board members are giving the go ahead for the new high school in Smiths Station.

A Lee County jury returned a guilty verdict Thursday afternoon, convicting Antonio Nixon, 30, of first-degree burglary and attempted rape.

A Tuskegee man was sentenced Monday to 25 years for his part in robbing Momma Goldberg's Deli in Auburn in December.

An Auburn University student and a Phenix City man died early Saturday in separate car accidents in Lee County, Ala., and Harris County.

An investigation into five house fires last month in Auburn helped lead to the arrests of four people in connection with February church fires in Chambers and Lee counties, Alabama Fire Marshal Ed Paulk said Monday.

An Auburn woman, formerly employed by a district judge, will go before a Lee County grand jury in September after being charged with theft from a local church, District Attorney Nick Abbett said.

A Tallassee man was ar rested and charged with first-de gree robbery last week, accord ing to Opelika authorities.

Alabama's Fire Marshal Ed Paulk says a fourth Auburn resident has been charged in connection with three church fires in Lee and Chambers counties.

Alabama State Troopers responded to an accident on Interstate 85 in Macon County late Friday afternoon but declined to release many details.

A defense attorney for Courtney L. Lockhart, the Smiths Station man charged with the March 4, 2008 murder of an Auburn University student, asked a judge Wednesday for his client to have access to some of the case's evidence.

State troopers say two Lee County juveniles have been arrested after leading officers on a car chase across three counties at speeds up to 90 mph.

Two Lee County juveniles are now in custody after leading law enforcement in a high-speed chase across three counties.

A small, single-engine plane that apparently carried Newnan passengers crashed into a field in Lee County, Ala., just before noon Friday, killing two passengers and injuring two others on board.

Two people were killed and two were injured after a two-vehicle wreck on Interstate 85 in Auburn Sunday afternoon, law enforcement officials said.

Federal aviation experts are trying to find out exactly what caused the small plane to crash in Lee county on Friday.

The names of the victims who died have been released. The Opelika Auburn news says 56-year-old Fulton County Juvenile Court Judge Sanford Bishop and 18-year-old Alexander Nicholas "Sasha" Medina.