LaGrange News

The sun on a hot summer day, which Dr. Robert Martin said can takes less than 20 minutes to heat up temperatures inside a car to 120 degrees.

Big Daddy Weave, a Dove Award-winning Christian band, will headline the TRUST 2014 Youth Explosion hosted by Teaver Road Baptist Church in Lagrange.

According to the LaGrange Police Department, the wife of the man who was hit found him laying unconscious outside on the ground.

Police said they responded to a call around 9 p.m. Monday evening of a male who had been shot.

Preparations have been underway for the last week at the Salem Road bridge for its replacement with workers clearing and grading the site.

Investigators with the Troup County Sheriff's Office are searching for Mathew Wilson Strickland, 35 years of age, of LaGrange, after a shooting approximately one week ago.

An 88-year-old LaGrange, Ga. woman has told police there that she was struck in the head with a cast iron skillet while she was lying in bed.

An 'aerial view' of the Boys and Girls Club's city, complete with a river running through town to the ocean, farm land in the foreground, and industrial space off to the left.

Local July Fourth Parade Makes News 'Around World' - LaGrange's "Sweet Land of Liberty" Fourth of July Parade has received international recognition, according to local merchant Chris Cleaveland, who is visiting relatives in West Germany.

A college professor is taking aim at singer Tom Petty's charge that "religion seems a to be at the base of all wars," claiming that, based on his analysis of 400 years of conflict, this simply isn't the case.

A stalker isn't necessarily someone you know; as one local minister found out, it could be a complete stranger.

David Perdue, shown during a campaign stop in LaGrange on July 9, secured the Republican nomination for the open U.S. Senate seat for Georgia during Tuesday's runoff election.

A golf tournament and silent auction set for Aug. 2 at the Hogansville Gold Club will benefit the family of Jackson Davis, 2, who was diagnosed with Menkes Disease soon after he was born.

LaGrange police said around 9:30 p.m., they were called to the West Georgia Tech campus on Orchard Hill Road to help 73-year-old Annie Faye Hamlin find her truck.

Troup County Association of Beekeepers meets at 7 p.m. at the Ag Building on Hamilton Road.

As the Executive Director of DASH for LaGrange, Inc., I took exception to information presented in Mr. Bill Gilmore's letter to the editor "Property tax increase for 2015" that appeared in the July 14th addition of the LaGrange Daily News.

County Manager Tod Tentler, left, shows officials around the resurfaced Chris Joseph track.

Eagle's Nest Cathedral , 1306 E. 10th St. in West Point, 10:30 a.m. Tuesday and 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Melissa Joyce Allen is set to wed Quinton Roberts of LaGrange on Aug. 9 at 4 p.m. at the Lafayette Garden Inn Best Western in LaGrange.

Natalie Elaine Young is set to wed William Madison Curry on Sept. 6, 2014, at First United Methodist Church in LaGrange.