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Scare On the Square will begin when youngsters, dressed as ghouls and goblins, trick or treat the mer-chants on the Square from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Ghosts of Marietta Walking Tour will have tours every hour on the hour from 6 to 10 p.m. The Scary-etta Trolley Tour will have a tour at 7 and 9 p.m. The Earl Smith Strand Theatre will have a ...

Gwinnett County Police arrested three men and seized cocaine, money and a handgun from their car at a Buford gas station Thursday morning.

Cobb Commission Chairman Sam Olens criticized the Marietta City Council on Thursday for being "very short-sighted" in its failure to partner with the county to build a new parking deck just off the Square.

MARTIAL ARTS ACADEMY OPENS DOORS FOR SPECIAL CHILD SAFETY COMMUNITY EVENT Marietta, GA - " Droege's ATA Martial Arts has announced plans for a community Child Safety Open House scheduled for 6:30- 8:00 p.m., Thursday, October 29th.

Now that they're third-graders, some of the students at Marietta's A.L. Burruss Elementary School had forgotten about a class project from the spring.

She needs no introduction. The always-smiling lady wearing the stylishly oversized, red glasses who is celebrated for treating everyone with kindness, be they waitresses or nobility, was awarded the fifth annual Legacy Award on Friday.

Managers of four Cobb hotels turned out early Friday to hear why the local Convention and Visitors Bureau is considering merging with the Cobb-Marietta Exhibit Hall Authority.

Ward 5 City Council candidate Chris Johnson is determined to make decisions that will benefit Marietta in the long term.

Marietta native Wes Godwin claims that his opponent in the Nov. 3 election, Councilman Van Pearlberg, wants to serve as councilman simply as a stepping-stone to run for district attorney.

Christopher Neill believes in hands-on learning, which helps explain why the 32-year-old educator is running for mayor in his first campaign for elective office.

Water, education and transportation are the three most important issues facing Georgia, former Gov.

A call center says it's now hiring for 1,500 temporary customer service positions at its Kennesaw office.

Police in Dothan say a Georgia man died after he jumped from a pickup truck being driven by his brother when the two were in an early morning argument.

Temperatures dipped into the low 30s across much of north Georgia Monday morning - around 20 degrees below normal for this time of the year - and frost advisories were issued.

A Marietta police officer involved in a two car accident Saturday afternoon is fine, according to police officials.

Steve "Thunder" Tumlin, 62, traces his devotion to public service to his late mother, Virginia, the first woman to receive the Cobb Citizen of the Year Award.

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Pedicabs, the modern-day version of the rickshaw, will hit the streets in a second metro Atlanta city.

Members of the Marietta Police Department''s Police Athletic League aren't just about cleaning up the streets.

Will have local author Cathy Kaemmerlen sharing stories of the famous men and women buried in the historic Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta a ' a graveyard filled with coffins of Civil War soldiers, Civil Rights pioneers, acclaimed writers and leaders of industry.

The federal government has awarded Marietta police and the city school system a $499,100 grant to improve safety in schools.

Georgia has scrapped a policy requiring contractors to erect taxpayer-funded signs that say federal stimulus money is paying for their projects.

A mother is trying to find who ran over her son in Marietta 10 months ago and then sped off.

As a teen, Bono was part of a charismatic Christian youth group. Rabbi Steve Lebow of Kol Emeth in Marietta, Ga., said: "I taught a class on rock 'n' roll and spirituality.

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. - "He took me by surprise because I never thought that I did something to him to get him mad or something." That's what a Marietta woman told 11Alive News about a man who she says punched her at a Sandy Springs red light Monday afternoon.

Sandy Springs police have arrested a Marietta doctor suspected of punching a woman in the face during a Monday afternoon road rage incident.

A Marietta couple is charged with fraudulently billing healthcare insurers for $11 million worth of services that were never provided.

Violent crimes in Marietta dropped a hefty 17 percent from 2007 to 2008, according to the most recent data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

A Marietta man was arrested Wednesday evening and charged in connection with an assault that took place Monday afternoon, police said.

Marietta Police are asking for the public's help in finding a man who has been stealing from Target stores all over metro Atlanta.

The last of eight shelters for flood victims in metro Atlanta is closing. The shelter at the Cobb Civic Center in Marietta is shutting down Thursday at 9 a.m. after two weeks of housing hundreds of people whose homes were damaged or destroyed by massive floods on Sept.

The Retreat, a 72-unit apartment building for seniors, will be dedicated at 10 a.m. today in Marietta.

Several sex offenders have set up camp behind offices at 1257 Kennestone Circle, after they say their probation officers told them to go there as a last resort.

A second man was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in a major ATM skimming scheme.

Packing heat may backfire. People who carry guns are far likelier to get shot a ' and killed a ' than those who are unarmed, a study of shooting victims in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has found.

A student can pass the Georgia High School Graduation Test, but not score high enough to meet federal requirements - a strange glitch in the No Child Left Behind law that leaves local high schools with little way to get those students to try again.

Cobb County pollice say they will continue patroling areas flood-ravaged areas after criminals continued to loot homes left vacant after heavy storms.

Sex offenders living in area "tent cities" Wednesday, September 30, 2009 On Monday, nine sexual predators were forced to leave their makeshift tent camp in the woods of Marietta, Georgia.

Three plastic surgeons serving Atlanta area breast enhancement patients are now participating in the clinical trials for a revolutionary new implant design.

A group of homeless sex offenders who had been living in tents in the woods behind an office park near Marietta were told they had to leave the land by Tuesday.