University of Georgia Kennewsaw State News

Being legally blind hasn't hindered one South Cobb High School senior from clinging to his love for literature and writing.

Students in the Transition Academy program at Pope High School gather in front of a mural they created, which contains 4,200 individual pieces.

Louise McCleskey McMurtry, a 79-year member of the Old Friendship Road Missionary Baptist Church in Powder Springs, and church pastor, the Rev.

A initiative to introduce students at three Woodstock high schools to a career in law enforcement is gaining traction.

The National Restaurant Association has announced the winners of the second annual Operator Innovations Awards, with Kennesaw State University being named as Innovator of the Year.

After honoring its 2014 Teachers of the Year at Monday's board meeting, Cartersville Schools named its system Teacher of the Year, Paige Robbins, Wednesday at a luncheon at Stonewall Manor , which was sponsored by Renasant Bank .

An instructor at Kennesaw State University 's College of Continuing and Professional Education is headed to Romania this summer.

A Clarke County judge rejected a petition from the man accused of running over Emily Bowman in a hit-and-run accident to remove his ankle monitor and leave Oconee County.

Hiring isn't strong, but it sure looks better than it has since the economy tipped into recession a little more than five years ago.

Shoupade Park Tours When: Saturday, May 18 at 9 a.m. and 10 a.m.; Sunday, May 19 at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Where: Shoupade Park, 4770 Oakdale Rd., Smyrna What: In conjunction with the Cobb Coalition for Historic Preservation's Historic Site Open House celebration, Michael Shaffer, assistant director of Kennesaw State University's Civil War Center, will ... (more)

Young Actors Playhouse Presents "Legally Blonde the Musical " When: Friday, May 17 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, May 18 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Theatre in the Square , 11 Whitlock Ave SW, Marietta, GA What: Legally Blonde the Musical is based on the novel Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown.

The first stop on the MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour hits Cauble Park today, with many of the professionals saying it's a favorite location as it draws one of the biggest crowds on the tour.

Turkish-born Kennesaw State University graduate Tuce Girit, left, finds friend and fellow alumna Michelle Vickers of Kennesaw as they check out each other's bling Thursday before the 146th commencement exercise at the school's Convocation Center.

When they graduate Thursday from Kennesaw State University 's Academy for Inclusive Learning and Social Growth , the only post-secondary program in the state that enables students with intellectual and developmental disabilities to experience college life, Georgia First Lady Sandra Deal will be there to congratulate them.

Actress Angelina Jolie arrives at the 84th Annual Academy Awards at the Hollywood & Highland Center February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California.

Family members of a Woodstock teen critically injured in a February hit-and-run in Athens say despite a recent downturn in her recovery, she is scheduled to return home later this month.

The renovated McMahon Dining Center on the campus of the University of Connecticut has been awarded a LEED Gold certification.

As strains of "Pomp and Circumstance" drift from college campuses this month, odds are improving that new graduates' next stop will not be their parents' basements.

As the number of future teachers and educational leaders enrolling at Kennesaw State University continues to grow, so too does the need for a more expansive facility for the Bagwell College of Education.

Instructor Huiling Li works with second-grader Trinity Faulkner on the first day of Mandarin Chinese classes at Brookdale Elementary School in Macon Bibb County's Mandarin Chinese program, which put the school system in the national spotlight, could be saved.