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The Auburn airport will get federal and state grant money for improvements, according to the Alabama Department of Transportation.

Lots of community members came out for Alabama State University's second annual Buzz Run 5K.

The participants spent one hour in the pool in rafts while getting ice buckets dumped on them and having to "walk the plank" for the fund raiser.

Nearly five years after Lowndes County Sheriff John “Big John” Williams was shot to death at a Hayneville gas station, the man accused of pulling the trigger is set to go on trial.

) - With a jury now seated, the prosecution and defense delivered their opening statements Tuesday morning in the capital murder trial of William Chase Johnson. The defendant is accused of shooting to death Lowndes County Sheriff John ‘Big John' Williams on the night of Nov. 23, 2019.

William Chase Johnson is charged with capital murder for the 2019 death of Lowndes County's sheriff By and WSFA 12 News Staff

) - A witness to the fatal shooting of Lowndes County Sheriff ‘Big John' Williams and a law enforcement officer who help process the scene for evidence took the stand Wednesday in the capital murder trial of William Chase Johnson.

Thanks to our generous sponsors, we were able to fill several shopping carts with new toys to donate at the event.

) - Losing a child is heartbreaking, but two in a matter of years is unbearable. That's a reality for one Alabama mother.

) - Funeral arrangements are set for longtime Auburn University football chaplain, the Rev. Chette Williams.