An Auburn man has learned his fate for defrauding an elderly woman out of more than half a million dollars.According to officials, 50-year-old James Clayton Langford III received a 15-year sentence, with two years to be served with the Chambers County Community Corrections Program and a 10-year probationary period.

This is an opinion column. We’ve said it before and why not one final time this college football season? Wow. What an incredible ride through a completely new world this has been. This journey ends Monday night with two northern invaders deciding a champion in the heart of SEC country.

The Auburn Police Department took 18-year-old Taylor Colbert—a student at Southern Union Community College—into custody on Jan. 14 on charges of aggravated cruelty to animals. Charges of aggravated cruelty to animals carry the weight of a Class C Felony in Alabama.

They are the two best teams in the country, no matter how many national media members salute fabulous Duke freshman Cooper Flagg.

Nineteen of the teams currently ranked in The Associated Press Top 25 poll will take the court Saturday as a stacked college basketball schedule takes center stage here in mid-January. The fun begins in Lexington when No.

In the absence of Broome, Auburn front-liner Chaney Johnson stepped up and delivered. Not only did Johnson tie his season high in minutes (34), but he had 17 points, eight rebounds and four blocks.

Alabama basketball picked up a resume-building win at Texas A&M over the weekend, so what did that mean for the Crimson Tide in the rankings?

Alabama basketball turnovers piled up and led to low-effort loss to Ole Miss, Tide's first defeat in conference play.

Johni Broome 's injury makes Auburn's spot more tenuous, but the Tigers beat Mississippi State by 22 even without him. Duke is barely breaking a sweat while blowing out inferior ACC competition. And then there's Iowa State, which has only a two-point loss to Auburn blemishing its résumé and just dispatched Kansas by 17.

The Iowa State men are ranked second in both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll Top 25s, but the Cyclones are not second in the NET rankings. Despite knocking off Kan

The win over Alabama kept Ole Miss undefeated in SEC play, holding a record of 4-0. Mississippi State, on the other hand, has dropped back-to-back league games against Kentucky and Auburn, so the Bulldogs will be looking to return to the win column in this in-state rivalry.

Top-25 teams will be in action in 14 games on Saturday’s college basketball schedule. That includes the Auburn Tigers squaring off against the Georgia Bulldogs at Stegeman Coliseum.Info on