The Enquirer, which later merged with The Ledger, was founded in 1828, the same year the city of Columbus was incorporated. As the city has grown into the vibrant place to live and work that it is today, so has the media company that started out with it. Providing 24/7 news coverage across mobile, desktop and printed products, the Ledger-Enquirer is committed to being the Chattahoochee Valley's and East Alabama's primary source of news.
Shannon Robinson, mother of Harris County singer and musician AJ Robinson, told the Ledger-Enquirer her son has always had a big imagination. In elementary school, Shannon said, AJ would write pages and pages for writing assignments that only required one because he wasn’t done telling his story.
Girl, meet world. World, meet girl. Viewers across the world cannot get enough of Phenix City Little League sensation Kinley Rasmus. The 12-year-old has been dominant this summer en route to helping her team clinch a Southeast Regional title and a top-six finish, at minimum, in the United States at the Little League World Series.
Members of the Phenix City Little League age 11-12 all-star team have been dreaming for years about making it to the Little League World Series. This year’s tournament hasn’t begun here in idyllic South Williamsport, Penn., home of the iconic Lamade Stadium. But, for many of Phenix City’s players, their first impressions of this baseball heaven since they arrived Thursday have surpassed their lofty expectations of a place they previously could only fantasize about while watching it on TV.
In mid-July, while automotive metal casting company Aludyne Foundry LLC was closing its shop and demolishing its business in Columbus, it spilled a notable amount of diesel fuel into Roaring Branch Creek.
