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Tuesday | Opelika-Auburn News

Officers ramp up traffic patrols

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.

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Related Topix: Auburn Metro, Opelika, AL

Tue Jun 30, 2009

WSFA-TV Montgomery

Suspect sought in brutal knife attack

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

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Related Topix: Auburn Metro, Opelika, AL

Mon Jun 29, 2009

Opelika-Auburn News

Jury finds Opelika man not guilty of murder

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

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Related Topix: Auburn Metro, Opelika, AL, Violent Crime, Auburn, AL

Sat Jun 27, 2009

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Police link Alabama men to 100 car break-ins

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.

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Related Topix: Phenix City, AL, Smiths Station, AL

Tue Jun 23, 2009

WSFA-TV Montgomery

Board approves start of construction for new Smiths Station High School

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

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Related Topix: Smiths Station, AL

Sun Jun 21, 2009

Opelika-Auburn News

30-year-old man found guilty of burglary, attempted rape

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

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Related Topix: Phenix City, AL

Tue Jun 16, 2009

Opelika-Auburn News

Judge sentences Tuskegee man to 25 years for deli robbery

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

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Related Topix: Tuskegee, AL

Mon Jun 15, 2009

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Two die in separate car accidents

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

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Related Topix: Auburn University, Phenix City, AL, Auburn, AL

Sat Jun 13, 2009

Opelika-Auburn News

Auburn house fires investigation leads to break in church fires

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.

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Related Topix: Auburn, AL, Chambers County, AL

Thu Jun 04, 2009

Opelika-Auburn News

Former judgea s secretary charged in church theft

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.

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Related Topix: Auburn Metro, Auburn, AL, Clanton, AL, Loachapoka, AL

Wed Jun 03, 2009

Montgomery Advertiser

Tallassee man charged with robbery

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

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Related Topix: Tallassee, AL, Auburn Metro, Opelika, AL, Fitzpatrick, AL

Tue Jun 02, 2009

ABC 33/40

New Church Fire Charges

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.

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Related Topix: Auburn, AL, Chambers County, AL

Sat May 30, 2009

Opelika-Auburn News

Accident on I-85 stops traffic

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

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Related Topix: Macon County, AL, Auburn Metro, Opelika, AL

Tue May 26, 2009

Opelika-Auburn News

Attorney for Lockhart asks for access to evidence in Burk case

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.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Smiths Station, AL, Auburn University, Russell County, AL

Sun May 24, 2009

WHNT-TV Huntsville

2 juveniles in stolen car lead Alabama police on 3-county chase ending on I-65

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.

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Related Topix: Montgomery Metro, Montgomery, AL, Auburn Metro

Sat May 23, 2009

Montgomery Advertiser

Montgomery Trooper Post stops high-speed chase, two juveniles in custody

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

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Related Topix: Montgomery Metro, Montgomery, AL, Auburn Metro, Auburn, AL, Opelika, AL

Wed May 20, 2009

The Times-Herald

Plane from Newnan crashes near Auburn

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.

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Related Topix: Newnan, GA, Air Accidents, Entertainment, Drama, Television

Mon May 18, 2009

Opelika-Auburn News

Two dead, two injured in I-85 wreck

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

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Related Topix: Auburn, AL

Sun May 17, 2009

WSFA-TV Montgomery

Investigators comb through wreckage of Lee co. plane crash

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

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Related Topix: Air Accidents, Auburn Metro, Opelika, AL, Auburn, AL

Sat May 16, 2009

WRBL

UPDATE Two Dead in Plane Crash in Beauregard

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.

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Related Topix: Air Accidents, Auburn Metro, Opelika, AL

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