Phenix City News

Firefighters are heating up efforts to raise money and break records as the Columbus Firefighter Association's MDA 5k approaches.

The Most Reverend Thoma J. Rodi on Sunday compared St. Patrick's School in Phenix City to the mythological phoenix.

Authorities identified the victims of the shooting early Saturday morning as 31-year-old Phillip Demetrius McCoy and 39-year-old Peter Thomas Sanders.

Phenix City Police responded to a call about a shooting at around 4:21 a.m. On arrival, responding officers identified the victim as Phillip Demetrius McCoy, 31. A second subject identified as Peter Thomas Sanders, 39, who was believed to have been shot during the same incident, was transported to Columbus Regional Hospital by a privately owned ... (more)

The names of the victims weren't released pending the notification of their relatives, said Russell County Coroner Arthur Sumbry Jr. The coroner said one man sustained a gunshot to the chest and the second had multiple gunshots in the shootings which occurred sometime between 4:30 and 5 a.m. today.

The Chattahoochee Valley Veterans Council and American Legion Post 135 of Phenix City held a ceremony at 1500 Airport Road in Phenix City.

Cammie is a 7-month-old German Shepherd belonging to deployed Marine Michael McCracken and his wife, Brittanie.

TV reports that northbound and southbound lanes were closed Wednesday between exits 277 and 288 in Bartow County.

There were several cases of bronze vases reported stolen from Lakeview Memory Gardens Cemetery in Phenix City recently, according to an email we received in our newsroom.

When Forrest Gump nervously peered over the shoulder of a fellow in a federally issued suit standing next to the feisty rooster that was George Wallace, Mike Raiford had seen enough.

Brittanie says she doesn't understand why the thief left behind Cammie's valuable information like her AKC materials, but Brittanie says her effort to find Cammie won't stop until she's back home.

Three Phenix City teenagers were killed in a single-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon on U.S. 431 in Russell County.

Three people were killed and four others injured in a Russell County automobile accident.

From the brass star at the top of the steps where Jefferson Davis took the oath as the Confederacy's only president to the coral orange roses planted in memory of the "first lady" of the civil rights movement, it's a building that should be visited by every Alabamian at least once.

The office of South Africa's president says former leader Nelson Mandela has been taken to a hospital because of a lung infection.

As part of a climactic scene for “Need for Speed,” a car was set on fire on the Phenix City side of the 13th Street Bridge on Thursday and thrown over onto the rocks south of the bridge.

Nick Saban's first summer camp session featured a number of 2014's top prospects that made their way to Tuscaloosa.

The Friends of the Phenix City-Russell County Library hosts a bag sale 2-6 p.m. Friday, June 21. Book lovers are invited to purchase bags and fill them to the top with gently-used hardback and paperback books at the Friends’ bookstore.

Expect a low-flying helicopter that will fly down 13th Street, west to east, on the Phenix City side and along the 13th Street Bridge.

Natalie Stovall brings a little bit of country and Brandon Giles offers a bit of rock 'n roll when they perform at the Phenix City Amphitheater on Saturday, June 8. Stovall is a fiddle player and she and her band play traditional country as well as new country and some rock classics.