Smyrna News

The Smyrna Police Department is seeking the public's help to discover the identity of a man they believe robbed a Smyrna bank on Thursday afternoon.

Open a car door on a summer day, and a sauna blast will quickly remind you just how seethingly, sticky hot it can get inside in just a short time.

Smyrna residents who are interested in learning more about the city's plans for its share of the projected 2016 SPLOST revenue are welcomed to attend an information session being held at City hall Thursday evening.

Ann Harris says she has spent the entirety of her nearly two-decade law career in Cobb Superior Court.

Common Quarter executive chef Jeffrey Gardner stands in the dining room while the crew reviews nightly specials.

Following the May 20 primary election, Republicans Bob Barr and Barry Loudermilk are still battling for the District 11 U.S. House seat.

Cobb County residents who want to discuss the tentative project list for the proposed 2016 SPLOST will get a chance to speak their minds during a series of informal meetings which begin on July 9. Cobb County government has posted the project list for the 2016 SPLOST , a proposed extension of the one cent sales tax which would allow for funding of ... (more)

Justin Ross Harris apparently called himself RJ on a social media personal networking site through which he met a woman that police say he was messaging on the day his son was dying in a hot SUV outside his office building.

A Smyrna woman who submitted her unlucky Georgia Lottery instant game tickets had a turn of fortune when those tickets netted her $20,000.

The Smyrna City Council is looking at a relatively light schedule for its Monday evening meeting.

Cobb County District 2 Commissioner Bob Ott, center, chats with Cobb police officers Capt.

Eleventh Congressional District voters may choose to send a seasoned congressman back to Washington or take a shot in the dark by electing a neophyte, said former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr of Smyrna.

The City of Smyrna has announced that it plans to increase the millage rate by over three percent despite a bolstered tax digest.

The Cobb Democrats announced that it will have an Evening in Smyrna with Sen. Jason Carter, the Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia, from 6 to 8 p.m. on July 11 at Brawner Hall, 3180 Atlanta Road in Smyrna.

On July 5, the 150th Anniversary Chattahoochee River Line Lecture and Tour will feature a lecture by The River Line Historic Area Board Member Michael Shaffer on the history of the position at the Lewis A. Ray Library, 4500 Oakdale Road SE in Smyrna.

Leading visitors early Friday morning on a "real-time tour" of Sherman's assault on Cheatham Hill during the Civil War Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was Dr. Keith Bohannon, a history professor at the University of West Georgia, who grew up in Smyrna and has been volunteering at the Kennesaw Mountain Preserve since the 1980s.

A 58-year-old man on a bicycle who rode right into the side of a MAX train, according to Hillsboro Police, suffered serious head injuries.

Plans for a new Braves stadium near the intersection of Interstates 75 and 285 have been approved by the Atlanta Regional Commission and the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority.

Edited from the City of Smyrna Are you a history fan and/or student of history? The City of Smyrna has a three-day exhibit set for July 1 - 3 at Brawner Hall, located at 3180 Atlanta Road, commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War in Georgia and Smyrna.

Patches of the county in need of an economic shot in the arm will soon receive a jolt in the form of a tax incentive program administered by the Board of Commissioners.