Austell News

On Tuesday, the Cobb County Board of Commissioners granted the first exception for backyard chickens to be raised on a small residential lot by an Austell family.

Two Austell businesses were robbed this weekend, and the Cobb County Police Department needs the public's help locating the suspects.

A woman who is five months pregnant was choked, shoved against a bathroom shower and struck multiple times in the face, Cobb police said.

The Austell Business Association will honor one of its own. Treasurer Lea Ellen Rich, the vice president/manager of Bank of America's Austell branch, will receive the 2013 M.L. Lamar Lifetime Achievement Award during an award ceremony at noon Tuesday at the Collar Community Center, 2625 Joe Jerkins Blvd., Austell.

Christian Aid Mission Partnership , an Austell coalition of of churches, businesses, civic groups and other community members, is accepting applications for its free education program for women.

Walmart Employee Wanted in Theft - South Cobb Patch A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Marietta man who allegedly stole more than $3,700 from the Austell Walmart Supercenter where he worked.

The 2008 Mazda car struck by an Amtrak passenger train in Stephens County on May 4, killing the car's three occupants, failed to stop for a stop sign before crossing into the train's path.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Marietta man who allegedly stole more than $3,700 from the Austell Walmart Supercenter where he worked.

Network with the South Cobb Business Association this Wednesday. The group's Wednesday Open Networking meeting will be held from 8 to 9:30 a.m. June 12 at the Holiday Inn Express , 3741 Tramore Pointe Pkwy.

South Cobb residents are invited to attend a public meeting in Austell tonight to learn more about a new bus service called Flex Route.

Sluggish economy? Not a problem. Local real estate in a deep slump and car sales stagnant? No big deal.

Four men, including one from Mableton, have been indicted on federal drug and money laundering charges for their roles in the alleged delivery of liquid methamphetamine to a residence in Austell.

A former Lindley Middle School student is wanted by police after being accused of raping a fellow student in the boys' bathroom at the school on May 1. Travion Malick Hubbard of Austell is accused of forcing a 14-year-old girl into the bathroom at Lindley Middle School on May 1 around 12:30 p.m. and sodomizing her.

Kennesaw State University's first head football coach is continuing to make the rounds across Cobb County.

Four men remain in the Cobb County Jail on charges in connection with trafficking methamphetamine and on immigration holds.

Puckett EMS paramedics once wheeled a man down the street on a stretcher and into a nearby hospital after their ambulance broke down, and it's efforts like this that earned the Austell company the 2013 Cobb Chamber Small Business of the Year award.

Starting this fall, Cobb Community Transit will provide a pilot bus service called Flex Route Service to riders in District 4. The proposed route, funded by federal and local grants, will provide stops between Austell and Cumberland Mall in the Smyrna-Vinings area.

Here are the latest updates on road work being done around Mableton, Austell and Cobb County during the week of June 3-7, according to the Cobb Department of Transportation .

Two South Cobb businesses, Fulfillment Strategies International Inc. and Puckett Emergency Medical Services Inc.

Two gunmen robbed a Captain D's after holding some employees against their will early Saturday morning in Cobb County .