Lee County News

Voters in Smiths Station, Ala., and other rural Lee County communities overwhelmingly approved a 100 percent increase in their annual fire fees Tuesday night.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigations has confirmed that a Taylor County girl has been removed from her adoptive parents after neighbors say she was forced to live in a chicken coop for months.

The report, sent by the local Federal Bureau of Investigations Office from their laboratories in Quantico, Virginia, sheds more light on who the remains found on January 28 may have belonged to.

JIM MUSTIAN jmustian@ledger-enquirer.com Daniel Sexton with the Smiths Station Fire & Rescue.

A two-vehicle crash Saturday night claimed the life of a Smiths Station man, according to an Alabama State Trooper press release.

Gregory Lance Henderson, the man convicted of the 2009 capital murder of a Lee County sheriff's deputy, is scheduled to be sentenced July 27.

Charges are being upgraded in the case of a man accused of domestic violence against a child after the 4-year-old died over the weekend.

A domestic dispute that escalated into an altercation has left an Auburn man dead.

A local man faces felony assault charges in connection with a child abuse investigation after the Lee County Department of Human Resources informed police of a 4-year-old girl being treated at UAB hospital for serious physical injuries on Thursday.

A thief disappointed one or more little girls by stealing some dresses from a car and a suspect's sock apparently wasn't a very good hiding place for drugs, according to a statement from the Police Department today.

The name and charges against a man involved in the 10-hour stand off with police , have been released, along with some details of the angry tirade that precipitated his arrest.. A statement from the Police Department said the drama played out in the 1400 block of East University Drive after police received reports about 6:50 p.m. of gunshots and a ... (more)