Lithia Springs News

Atlanta West Pentecostal Church choir of Lithia Springs won the Verizon How Sweet the Sound gospel competition in Detroit Saturday and brought home not only the title, but $25,000 in cash for winning and $5,000 for being getting the most votes from the audience.

Opening statements began Wednesday in Superior Court in the trial of Keith Steward, who is accused of beating and killing his girlfriend by cutting her throat.

Since 1990, First Baptist Church, Lithia Springs has provided a safe alternative to traditional trick-or-treating with their trunk-or-treat event held at the church located at 3566 Veterans Memorial Parkway, Lithia Springs, Georgia.

The vehicle occupants gave consent to search the car, and detectives found a number of baggies containing marijuana and one baggie with a white powder that field tested as ecstasy.

A Cobb County family whose house was heavily damaged in last month's historic flood will be getting a new home thanks to a $250,000 Georgia Lottery win.

Crossroads For Life Ministries, 6976 Bankhead Highway, Douglasville, only opened its doors about a month ago, but is already very active in local flood relief work.

Run to support the YWCA of Northwest Georgia's Peace, Love & Dignity 5K Run and 1 Mile "Skirt" Run on Sunday, October 25 in Kennesaw, Georgia.

The last local Disaster Recovery Center will close Friday at 7 p.m., but a Small Business Administration Disaster Loan Outreach Center will open Oct.

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The Perez home on Sept. 25, four days after water rose to the roof top. O'Charley's customers will have an opportunity to help a flood victim Saturday.

The disaster recovery center at Lithia Springs will close tomorrow at 7 p.m. It is one of eight that will shut down, according to Ricardo Zuniga, an external affairs officer with the Federal Emergency Management Agency , which operates them along with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency .

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Church of Christ members across the country responded in a big way when they heard of the flooding in Douglas County.

CBS Atlanta partnered with Hosea Feed the Hungry to collect food and clothes for flood victims.

Dorsett Shoals Road should be open in three to five days, Randy Hulsey, county Department of Transportation director, told the Tuesday Board of Commissioners meeting.

County Line Baptist Church, 1814 N. County Line Road, Lithia Springs, is having a flood victimsa relief drive.

Special to the Sentinel Douglasville City Councilwoman Callye Burk Holmes and volunteers from Hosea Feed the Hungry will be distributing food and flood relief supplies Monday and Tuesday in Douglas County.

The number of looting arrests continue to pile up in Cobb following the disastrous flooding early last week that displaced thousands of residents in the southern part of the county.

A Disaster Recovery Center operated by the state of Georgia and the Federal Emergency Management Agency opened today in Douglas County for those affected earlier this week by severe storms and flooding.

Helen McCoy/Sentinel Douglas County residents wait in line to register at the disaster recovery center in Douglasville.