Woodstock News

Traffic investigators with the Cherokee County Sheriffa s Office are investigating a hit and run involving a work van.

The Holly Springs police chief has retired the department's police dog following the resignation of its handler.

A Woodstock man accidentally was killed the day before his 27th birthday while riding his bicycle on Main Street near downtown.

Cherokee County has received approval for a business a oeopportunity zonea in its southwest corner, but the area it covers is much smaller than county planners suggested.

An inmate in the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center who attempted to take his own life Saturday has died.

Woodstock police have identified the suspect accused of robbing a local eatery. The suspect, Antoine Bernard Williams, 24, of Dallas, is accused of committing armed robbery at the Subway restaurant on Main Street in Woodstock Nov.

The city of Woodstock will apply for $300,000 in federal energy efficiency funds to improve utility systems and appliances in city buildings, as well as to establish a a oeSustainable Woodstocka program and hire an intern to do a city energy audit.

An inmate from the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center in Canton was on life support Monday afternoon after allegedly trying to kill himself.

A Woodstock restaurant was the site of an illegal gambling operation, law enforcement officials said Friday.

An illegal gambling operation was busted in Cherokee County Friday. Investigators said raided the Buffalo House restaurant on Highway 92 in Woodstock and found several gaming machines and cash.

Within two months, Woodstock residents and others receiving some city benefits will have to show that they are legal U.S. residents.

Police are searching for a south Fulton man they say fatally shot one repo man and critically wounded another early Thursday, then fled in the 2004 gray Ford Mustang that was being repossessed.

First Cherokee State Bank became the latest local bank to receive a "cease and desist" order from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , when the federal institution gave it two months to examine its management and raise capital.

Cherokee County's cities, commissioners, school board and other agencies had their annual meeting Nov.

Woodstock incumbents swept the Nov. 3 city council election, but there will be a few new faces in Canton.

Cherokee County authorities on Tuesday identified the man killed in a Monday afternoon collision between a bicycle and a van in Woodstock.

Feed The Children, First Baptist Church and Georgia Baptist Convention partner to feed 1,200 Children and families in need Residents to Receive Free Food Items Woodstock, GA - Feed The Children will deliver three semi tractor-trailers full of food items to First Baptist Church, located at 11905 Highway 92 on Monday, Nov.

A Cobb County police officer stopped in his patrol car near a construction scene was hit by a man who apparently didn't see the flashing lights.

Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMERIS BANCORP , announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ameris Bank, has entered into a definitive agreement with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporate to assume all of the deposits and acquire certain assets of United Security Bank, a full service bank headquartered in Sparta, Georgia, with an ...

Now that Ball Ground has made its intentions to file liens on unpaid property taxes plain, officials are seeing a windfall of revenue.A During their Oct.