Smyrna News

Enjoy food and live music today while touring beautiful community gardens around Smyrna.

The Rev. John C. Hearst, right, along with other members of Mt. Zion First Baptist Church including, from left, Carrie Hammond, Ann Blount, Deacon William J. Blount and Mary Hearst are looking forward to Sunday's anniversary celebration of the 136-year-old Smyrna church.

The Cobb Board of Education on Thursday approved a fiscal year 2014 budget that includes five furlough days for teachers and staff, a reduction of 182 teaching positions through attrition, a half-year step increase for employees and taking $41 million from reserves to reach a balance.

When Derrell Lamar King was prohibited from taking his 5-month-old daughter, tensions escalated Friday inside a Powder Springs home.

The garden of Fran Spearman will be featured on the Keep Smyrna Beautiful's Fifth Annual Garden Tour on Saturday.

Friday, Sandra Hall is at Blind Willie's . The TImo Arthur Trio is at Darwin's in Marietta.

A 36-year-old Smyrna woman is $250,000 richer after matching the first five numbers in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing.

United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Derrick Nathaniel Hartfield, 45, of Smyrna, Ga., and Rico Carty Clemons, 47, of Riverdale, Ga., pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Court Judge Richard T. Haikto taking part in a scheme to defraud Wal-Mart and other retail business nationwide out of hundreds of thousands of dollars ... (more)

May 14, 2013 - SMYRNA, Ga. -- Lowry is best-known for co-writing and performing the song "Mary, Did You Know?" This popular Christmas song has been performed by more than 30 artists, including Cee Lo Green, Kenny Rogers and Wynonna Judd.

The City of Smyrna Parks & Recreation Department needs your input for a new master plan.

Some taxpayers in Smyrna are calling the addition of $754,094 worth of lights to Atlanta Road "excessive," while city leaders counter it's all in the name of pedestrian safety.

There was a big jam on Interstate 75 on Monday after a bank robbery suspect fled the scene at Mars Hill Rd Bank and started a high-speed chase that came to an end on Interstate 75 south at Mount Paran Road just south of the Cobb County line.

Pre-kindergarten teacher Natalie Kane sounds out the word Friday and she goes over the days of the week with her class at St.

The Marietta City School Board is on tap to approve its $81.8 million General Fund budget for next school year, along with the district's food services, community schools and athletic budgets.

It's time to start another bluesy week in Atlanta! Here's where to go for great blues this coming week: Monday, Bill Sheffield is at Blind Willie's. Truett Lollis performs at Darwin's in Marietta.

The drug, which comes in the form of a pill and a strip that you place under your tongue, is called Suboxone.

Smyrna Family Movie Night When: Friday, May 10 at 6 p.m. Where: Brown Elementary School , 3265 Brown Rd SE, Smyrna, GA What: Come out for Brown Elementary School's final fundraiser.

Muss & Turner's recently celebrated eight years of serving Smyrna. Owners Ryan Turner and Todd Mussman met when working together in the late nineties at The Food Studio.

A Kennesaw man is accused of stealing at least 50 Glock 19 magazines from the gun manufacturer's North American headquarters in Smyrna.

The Smyrna Police Department will host a seminar this month to educate citizens about gun safety.