Carrollton News

Gainesville senior Jaymee Carnes finished with 21 points and 15 rebounds as part of a 49-38 win against No.

Six female Villa Rica High School students charged with affray and disrupting a public school appeared before a Juvenile Court judge Friday.

The Christmas tree on the corner of Adamson Square in Carrollton was lit Thursday night at 6 p.m. Carrollton Main Street held the Lighting of the Sauare and Open House.

Alison Payne, right, of Roopville nuzzles a cat that she and her son Glen were considering adopting at the new Carroll County Animal Shelter.

It usually took Cherie Nicole Mitchell around 30 minutes to reach her frienda s house in Carrollton.

The Bainbridge High School Lady Cats finished 20th in Saturdaya s state Class AAAA cross country meet at Carrollton High School.

What began as a cotton farm in the Center Point community near Temple eventually changed its focus to cattle over time, but the family working the property hasna t changed in more than 100 years.

Carrollton City officials and Carrollton City School administrators have yet to get together to discuss how a possible widening of Ben Scott Boulevard and the Greenbelt trail might affect the school systema s future expansion plans and cross-country course, but Mayor Wayne Garner is not optimistic about the outcome.

Following a routine traffic stop, Carrollton police reported finding a small bag of suspected methamphetamine in Michael Jason Moorea s back pants pocket.

Four years ago the Carroll County NAACP conceived a program that would help parolees live a successful life outside of prison.

The city of Carrollton is in the middle of a multi-million dollar effort to resurface dozens of roads around the city, some of which have gone many years without new asphalt.

An inmate at Carroll Countya s state prison work camp, Andre Cofer Jr., walked off a work detail on Nov.

An unseasonably wet autumn has delayed completion of the parking garage that will accompany the new county justice center, according to officials with the city of Carrollton.

A Carrollton man was arrested at around 1 a.m. on Nov. 7 when security personnel at Tanner Health Systema s Roy Richards Sr.

Traffic moves along a bridge over Buffalo Creek on Ben Scott Boulevard in Carrollton Tuesday.

The Carrollton City Schools Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to indefinitely table granting an easement on its property to the Greenbelt project until it receives more information from the city on plans to add a turn lane to Ben Scott Boulevard to ease traffic congestion.

The election of the Carrollton City Schools Board of Education members displaced two women from the board, creating the first all-male school board the system has had in 30 years.

A jury awarded $670,000 to the plaintiff, represented by Ken Crawford of Tisinger Vance, P.C., in a civil suit last Friday involving a 2004 house explosion that killed two people.

A former University of West Georgia student pleaded guilty Thursday to false imprisonment as part of a plea agreement after he filed a motion for a new trial in an aggravated sexual battery case.

The defeat of an incumbent candidate in a Carrollton Board of Education election might be something that hasn't happened in at least a decade.