Marietta News

The Marietta Police Department has announced a plan to help motorists safely get to and from the Square July 4 when the city celebrates its 175th anniversary with an Independence Day parade and day of events and fireworks finale .

Get in on the fun and celebrate Marietta's 175th anniversary July 4 from 10 a.m.-10 p.m. with an Independence Day parade and celebration on the Square, free live concerts, arts and crafts show, food, carnival games and fireworks finale.

New York City The Home Depot has been ordered by a jury to award $1.5 million to a customer and his wife in a personal injury case stemming from a forklift accident inside a store, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported.

Governor Sonny Perdue, Deputy U.S. Transportation Secretary John D. Porcari and Georgia Department of Transportation Commissioner Vance Smith, Jr., today officially launched work on Georgia's first American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 highway stimulus project.

A second Miss Georgia has been crowned in two days. One day after winning the title Saturday night at the annual pageant in Columbus, Gwinnett County school teacher Kristina Higgins relinquished the post, now filled by the runnerup, Emily Cook, a Marietta law student.

A Marietta woman has died from injuries sustained in a car crash that killed her teenage son a week ago.

Teenage qualifier Melanie Oudin of Marietta, Ga., has advanced to the fourth round in her first Wimbledon by upsetting former No.

Marietta Police Officer Kenneth Martin carries a gun, pepper spray, flashlight and everything he thought he would ever need.

Police say a 14-month-old boy has died after being found unconscious in the bathtub, and has mother has been charged with cruelty to children.

A Marietta woman faces child cruelty charges after allegedly leaving her 4-month-old twins in a hot car while she shopped.

Two Georgia men who were on their way to a rock concert in Pittsburgh are facing felony drug charges after being stopped in Kanawha County with illegal narcotics in their car.

One of the Confederacy's last battlefield triumphs was over. All around Kennesaw Mountain, weary young men in butternut had held off Sherman's better armed soldiers before the Union's march on to Atlanta.

A Marietta woman faces child cruelty charges after allegedly leaving her 4-month-old twins in a hot car while she shopped.

Here's another example of how the recession is changing the way we do things. State and local governments are conducting fire sales of old equipment and they're selling it on-line. Marietta was the first city in Georgia to do it.

A Georgia homeowner whose cherished family home was mistakenly demolished said he wants to know how a contracted demolition crew could make such an egregious error.

The FBI says Michael Garveigh and Louis Joseph Aprile posed as agents with the NSA and the British intel agency, MI-5, claiming to be recruiting for a counter-terrorism task force, and telling the cops they wanted to seize money from two different locations.

Mark Milota is dealing with unemployment at his Marietta, GA home Thursday, June 11, 2009, and is no longer eligible for food stamps due to the $25 stimulus increase in unemployment benefits which began in March.

The newest FBI crime statistics indicate Atlanta is the second least safe city in America.

After his trial ended last week, former Georgia Tech student Syed Haris Ahmed told his sister that the conversations and e-mail exchanges that led to his arrest three years ago on terrorism conspiracy charges were "nothing, just talk ." "Nothing was going to happen," his sister Mariam Ahmed recalled Wednesday.

Two suburban Atlanta men appeared in federal court Wednesday, accused of a bizarre plot to pass themselves off to police as agents of the U.S. government and British intelligence forming a special counter-terrorism task force.