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Friday | Marietta Square

Marietta Sqaure July 4th Traffic Plan Details

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 .

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

Marietta Square

Why aren't you going to Celebrate July 4th on the Marietta Square?

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.

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Injured Home Depot shopper awarded $1.5M

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.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

Daily Citizen

Construction on first Georgia stimulus transportation project to begin

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.

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

Daily Citizen

New Miss Georgia quits day after winning crown

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.

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

The Macon Telegraph

Woman injured in fatal crash dies in hospital

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

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Athens Banner-Herald

American teen Oudin upsets Jankovic at Wimbledon

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

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Marietta police get helping hand, broom

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

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The Macon Telegraph

14-month-old drowns in Marietta, mother charged

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.

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Thu Jun 25, 2009

WSB-AM Atlanta

Infants in Car, Mother Charged

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

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Tue Jun 23, 2009

Charleston Daily Mail

Ga. men stopped on way to concert face drug charges

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.

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Mon Jun 22, 2009

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Civil War canteen found in Marietta

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.

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Sun Jun 21, 2009

WTOC-TV Savannah

Marietta woman faces child cruelty charges

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

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Sat Jun 20, 2009

WXIA-TV Atlanta

Selling Junk Saves Taxpayers Money

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.

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Fri Jun 19, 2009

Free Republic

Oops! Georgia Family Distraught After Contractor Destroys Wrong House

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.

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Wed Jun 17, 2009

WALR-FM Atlanta

Fake Government Agents Arrested; Accused Molester Posed As Girl Online

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.

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Mon Jun 15, 2009

TulsaWorld.com - News

$25 check may cost you food stamps

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.

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Sun Jun 14, 2009

WALR-FM Atlanta

Atlanta 2nd Least Safe City; Two DeKalb Officers Fired

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

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Fri Jun 12, 2009

Legal Times

Former Georgia Tech Student Found Guilty of Terrorist Conspiracy

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.

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Wed Jun 10, 2009

Athens Banner-Herald

Hearing set for 2 accused of impersonating agents

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.

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