Hoschton News

Four cars were broken into in Hoschton's Antrim Glen subdivision Friday night, according to a Jackson County sheriff's report.

There's a new Miss Georgia - the second to be crowned in two days. Miss Cobb County Emily Cook, runner-up at Saturday's state pageant in Columbus, was informed Sunday morning that she was in fact the winner after Gwinnett County schoolteacher Kristina Higgins turned down the prize.

An "uptick" in the number of ticks in Georgia is being reported this year... and fleas and mosquitos, too.

A man charged in a 2006 Hoschton quadruple murder had his first substantive court hearing in more than a year Thursday, though it appears unlikely his case will go before a jury before 2010.

There are plenty of tournaments for grown-ups that come to the golf courses in Barrow County.

A Hoschton woman has been indicted in the death of a local 14-year-old, according to Hoschton police officials.

Hoschton residents submitted a 417-signature petition to the city clerk Monday requesting that city leaders hold a referendum to change the way taxes are levied.

The American Street Rodders Car Club will host a cruise-in Saturday, June 13, at Hoschton Towne Center Shopping Center.

Employees of Barrow Countya s government will learn next week how severely the countya s fiscal crisis will affect them.

When the heat of the summer arrives, most people's thoughts turn to taking some sort of family vacation; but with economic progress currently frozen, a lot of people don't have the necessary funds for extended trips.

There were no injuries in a Hoschton house fire Tuesday afternoon but a family of four was left homeless by the blaze.

Hoschton developer Kelley Gary, left, explains a petition to Jackie Snellgrove, right, and Snellgrove's son, Eric.

Some Jackson County property owners will be getting reassessment notices in the mail within the next week.

City well repairs, wastewater stimulus funding, employee health insurance and the police department's future were among issues discussed at three recent Hoschton committee meetings.

BJC Medical Centera s request for a financial bailout from the Jackson County Board of Commissioners was tabled Monday night.

A ministry that helps homeless men will not have a home of its own after the Braselton Town Council approved a church's request to relocate.

Hoschton city officials and city attorneys are reviewing a Jackson County Superior Court judge's order forcing the city to turn over $230,000 to developers to reimburse them for a sewer pump station they built in 2007.

A masked man with a rifle robbed a bank in Southeastern Clarke County on Wednesday morning, and four area schools were locked down for most of the day as officers searched for the gunman.

A Superior Court judge has ruled that Hoschton must pay a development company almost $230,000 in a lawsuit centering on a new sewer pump station.

A Hoschton man who said he blacked out before a collision that killed a popular school crossing guard two years ago was booked into the Clarke County Jail on vehicular homicide charges.