Contributed by theLee County Sherriff’s Office A suspect in the late December 2020 shooting at the Del Ranch Bar in the Smiths Station area has been taken into custody. On Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, Clark County, Nevada, authorities notified Lee County Sheriff’s...

By Hannah Lesterhlester@opelikaobserver.com  The Auburn City Council debated and discussed proposed short-term rental regulations, but it did not pass an ordinance Tuesday night.  The regulations as they were presented by the planning commission were amended...

In only 21 short months, at the close of 2022, Alabama will lose the greatest senator in our state’s history. Those of us who are political historians will acknowledge Richard Shelby as Alabama’s most pronounced political emissary in Washington. In my 2015 book, Six...

By Will FairlessAssociate Editor Sheriff Jay Jones called a press conference on Feb. 10 to announce that Lee County Sheriff’s Investigators arrested D’Mario Jones, a corrections officer who had been with working the sheriff’s department for seven months, for supplying...