Bethlehem News

Hit by the slumping economy, the owners of New Way Cleaners & Launderers decided to close their 70-year-old business rather than letting the Athens enterprise go into debt.

A 29-year-old Bethlehem man torched his mother's home last week, then got caught shoplifting at a Dollar General store just down the street, an investigator with the Barrow County Sheriff's Office said this morning.

A six-month undercover criminal investigation by the Barrow County Sheriff's Office culminated Monday morning with arrests of some of the suspects wanted for drug-related and other crimes.

Due to problems stemming from bad loans made by the Barrow County branches of Community Bank & Trust, the federal FDIC released a a oecease and desist ordera against the firm Friday.

The Barrow County Sheriff's Office arrested more than a dozen people in the span of a week in relation to domestic abuse or violence, including sexual assault.

Gwinnett County authorities have charged a 26-year-old man with using the social networking site MySpace to lure a teenager to a vacant home and molest him.

North Georgia College & State University conferred more than 600 graduate and undergraduate degrees during the May 2009 commencement ceremonies.

Barrow County authorities have nabbed a member of a criminal street gang as they step up efforts to curb gang activity in the area.

Barrow County Sheriff's Office, along with several other jurisdictions, arrested a gang member Monday -- finding the suspect in possession of a firearm and marijuana.

Some Barrow County teens are behind bars after Barrow County Sheriff's Deputies received an anonymous tip that the juveniles were in the woods partying.

Mr. and Mrs. Chris Thompson of Watkinsville, Georgia are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Lindsey Thompson of Watkinsville, Georgia to John Scott Bates of Bethlehem, Georgia, son of Ms.

Barrow County Sheriff's Deputies were dispatched to Fellowship Baptist Church on Rockwell Church Road Sunday after several witnesses said a white male in a white Ford Taurus drove by and fired three rounds into the air while children were outside playing on the playground, not once, but twice.

Convincing real estate investors to sink money into a historic storefront never has been easy, but the current confidence-busting economy has frozen city revitalization projects just as they brought 19th-century charm into the 21st century.

A 29-year-old Bethlehem man torched his mother's home last week, then got caught shoplifting at a Dollar General store just down the street, an investigator with the Barrow County Sheriff's Office said this morning.

Barrow County firefighters snuffed a small fire Thursday evening in a house on Gifton Thomas Road in Bethlehem, and three adults escaped without injury.

Villa Rica police said Wednesday that a teenage girl could have lost her life after a weekend of drinking binge.

A Barrow County couple faces charges for supplying drugs and alcohol to underage kids at a rowdy house party.

The Barrow County Sheriff's Office arrested a Bethlehem couple March 28 for hosting an underage drinking party that resulted in the hospitalization of an 18-year-old female.

An undercover operation conducted by the Barrow County Sheriffa s Office Narcotics Unit resulted in an arrest and the recovery of multiple controlled substances late Friday evening.

Barrow County Deputies have their hands full, tending to nearly 90 incidents in the span of a week and making more than a dozen arrests.