Winston News

Voters sign in Tuesday at the Old Courthouse precinct. Douglas County voters, by a 32-vote margin, cast their ballots Tuesday to build a new jail.

The Douglas County Board of Commissioners is considering a 90-day moratorium on new cell phone towers while the county updates its rules on telecommunications structures.

Early voting for Tuesday's election has been light, less than 2 percent. Today is the final day for early voting in the Nov.

The vehicle occupants gave consent to search the car, and detectives found a number of baggies containing marijuana and one baggie with a white powder that field tested as ecstasy.

Randy Hulsey addresses the Rotary Club Monday Damage from the Sept. 21-22 Douglas County flooding, which washed out more than 170 roads, will total $10-12 million, according to Randy Hulsey, director of the county Department of Transportation .

Bryan Dean of Winston was lying in bed, listening to his scanner, in the early morning hours of Sept.

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Authorities believe they've found the body of the missing Carroll County woman apparently washed from the road in her vehicle during flooding last week.

Punctuality was one of Debbie Hooper's best traits. Authorities sort through the wreckage thought to be Debbie Hooper's car.

This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 02:15 PM EDT shows widespread clouds over the majority of the Eastern US as a storm system and front produce numerous showers and scattered thunderstorms across the Southeast and the Eastern Valleys.

The deluge of rain that closed schools, highways and railroads across metro Atlanta turned deadly Monday.

There is an eighth death related to the Atlanta area floods. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com Rescue crews pick up Jennifer VanNess on Monday near near Peachtree Battle Avenue and Arden Road in Atlanta.

An SUV sits Tuesday in a tangled mess in a creek on Stewart Mill Road. Officials report that a number of abandoned vehicles have been located, but no additional victims have been found.

Blake Fowler looks over the washed out road near his home Post Road in Winston, Georgia on Monday.

The 17-year old said he has lived there since he was 3 and has never seen the road washed out.

Blake Fowler looks at a washed-out road near his home in Winston, Ga. Monday, Sept.

Blake Fowler looks at a washed-out road near his home in Winston, Ga. Monday, Sept.

State and local officials will cut a ribbon Tuesday to officially open the new $9.5 million College and Career Institute Building on the Douglasville campus of West Georgia Technical College .

The 6-foot by 10-foot cells at the Douglas County Jail, originally designed for only one inmate, now hold four.

A New York man was arrested Thursday in the Bronx in connection with the Aug. 29 slaying of Winston resident Shawn P. McMahon.