Auburn and Alabama fans can start their travel, hotel and other plans for the first couple of football games for both the Tigers and Tide this season following recent television announcements by ESPN, CBS, ABC and SEC Network.
An inmate died in Lee County Detention Center on Wednesday night, and another inmate has been identified as a suspect, according to a report from the Lee County Sheriff's Office.
U.S. land managers have given final permissions for a 416-mile transmission line that would connect wind farms in eastern Wyoming with customers in Utah and elsewhere across the West.The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday said it has notified…
Hit by one of its worst droughts in decades and torn by years of war, Afghanistan was already facing a hunger emergency; but the Taliban takeover in August threw the country into crisis.
The governor of Texas says the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school had warned on social media minutes before the attack that he was going to shoot up a school. Gov. Greg Abbott says…
The only Republican candidate running for governor in Wisconsin who supported keeping the bipartisan state elections commission in place has reversed his position and is calling for it to be dissolved. The announcement Wednesday by construction company co-owner Tim Michels…
See who won every race on the ballot. And for the state races, see who won in Lee County, whether they really won or not.
All votes have been tallied from polling places in Lee, Tallapoosa and Russell counties in the race for Alabama State Senate District 27, and Jay Hovey leads Tom Whatley 8,367 votes to 8,363.
One of the last anti-abortion Democrats in Congress was facing his toughest primary challenge yet in Tuesday's runoff, while a staunch gun safety advocate ousted her House colleague in a fierce member-on-member congressional primary in suburban Atlanta. In northwest Georgia,…
John Andrew Harris defeated incumbent Richard LaGrand by 43 votes in Tuesday night's primary election to become the next District 5 Lee County commissioner.
On Tuesday night, Jeff Tickal defeated Elijah Beavers to become a Lee County Circuit Court Judge, succeeding Judge Jacob Walker.
The Opelika-Auburn News went to press while local races were still in progress. Here's where those races stood. For full results and stories about key races, go to oanow.com.
U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath has defeated fellow Democratic U.S. Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux in a Georgia primary race between two incumbents who became rising stars after flipping districts long held by Republicans. The contest in metro Atlanta’s 7th Congressional District cost…
The death toll from the shooting at a Texas elementary school rose to 18 children and three adults. Here are the latest updates from Texas, as well as comments from President Biden.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has defeated his Donald Trump-backed challenger David Perdue after a furious push by the former president to punish Kemp for not overturning the 2020 election results. Kemp’s victory on Tuesday sets up another general election race…