Russell County News

Ask Kathryn Bryant why her family wants to settle in Fort Mitchell, Ala., and her reply is straightforward.

A Phenix City man died Saturday night in a one-vehicle wreck on Sandfort Road. Frank Smith, 47, was driving near Flynn Hill when his SUV Trailblazer went off the road, said Russell County Coroner Arthur Sumbry Jr.

Tucked away on county road 12 in Russell County just a few miles north of Eufaula live the Screws family.

A Russell county man accused of sexually abusing a young girl is behind bars tonight.

Russell county authorities aren't calling it a crime wave, but they've made several burglary and theft arrests in a Fort Mitchell neighborhood.

It was the kind of price you might find at a fire sale. A vehicle that, when new, sold for as much as $750,000 went for $6,800. "Not a bad deal at all," said Steve Moore of the new ladder truck purchased by the Seale Volunteer Fire Department.

A vote by the majority-white Russell County School board against renewing the contract of the system's second black superintendent has led to allegations that race played a role in the decision.

Motorists from LaGrange, Ga., to Phenix City found a house divided in their way Wednesday as a home in two sections was moved from Troup County in Georgia to Russell County in Alabama.

Steve Stokes has served as Dothan City School Board chairman since 2005. Since becoming chairman, Stokes has helped set the agenda for a number of changes in the city school system, including a uniforms policy, rezoning and the end of a federal desegregation order.

Phenix City councilors' pay will more than double Monday to $21,620 a year from $9,600, thanks to legislation introduced by state Rep.

Alabama State Troopers and deputies with the Russell County Sheriff's Office are on the scene of a car crash in Russell County.

Eighteen alligators were killed on opening night of the second split of the 2008 alligator season on the Mobile-Tensaw Delta on Friday.

A Seale, Ala. man accused of raping a woman and abusing her for two weeks is in custody.

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.

On Saturday, May 23, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Landmark Park show visitors how to plant cotton the old fashioned way--with draft animals.

By the early 1950s, Phenix City, Alabama, had descended into near lawlessness thanks to a decision two decades earlier to legalize 3.2 beer.

Russell County is under a tornado watch this morning until 8:30 a.m. At 6:57 a.m., CDT, the National Weather Service detected a severe thunderstorm with strong rotation.

Today, by most accounts, Phenix City, Alabama, is a nice place to live and work.

A week after a Phenix City man reported being attacked by a rabid fox, officials in Russell County said more cases have been discovered and they are encouraging residents to get their pets vaccinated.

Russell County Circuit court judge George Green sentenced Convicted murderer David Wiggins to die by lethal injection.