Cherokee County News

The youngest victim of the suspected serial killer in Cherokee County is fighting to stay alive Friday night.

The fear generated in Cherokee County over four murders by a serial killer has the phone ringing almost constantly at Crimestoppers in Columbia, which is handling all anonymous tips in the cases.

Tennessee prosecutors have dropped charges against a Snellville businessman who was accused of kidnapping and raping an Atlanta stripper.

A woman who says a former Woodstock police narcotics agent raped her at the police department in 2008 has filed a federal lawsuit against the officer and the city.

Two location of Muscogee County Prison inmates who escaped from a work detail Tuesday remains unknown, officials said.

Georgia's Department of Transportation says it has awarded 22 more projects worth $56.7 million under the federal stimulus program.

The Georgia Supreme Court has sent a high-profile murder case back to Cherokee County Superior Court for a hearing on grounds that the defendant might have had ineffective counsel.

Two Canton bar owners are asserting that keeping their bars open until 2 a.m. will not only increase tax revenue for the city, but may actually make streets safer.

The Cherokee County Commission voted unanimously at its June 16 meeting toA purchase two Waleska parks from Reinhardt College for $608,000. The county anticipates closing on the purchase of Cline Park, 12.2 acres for $244,300, and Waleska park, 18.9 acres for $363,800, by the end of the month.

Rescue teams returned to Lake Allatoona at daybreak Wednesday to resume searching for a woman who fell from a Waverunner late Tuesday night.

Searchers will continue looking on Wednesday for a missing kayaker following an accident on Lake Allatoona.

A woman who drowned this week in Lake Allatoona has been identified as 23-year-old Shastin Rader, an assistant softball coach at Reinhardt College.

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A spokeswoman for the state Department of Natural Resources says the body of a missing 24-year-old woman has been found in Lake Allatoona.

Cherokee County rescue crews searched most of the night for the last of three people who were aboard a personal watercraft which struck a tree in the water Tuesday evening.

Cherokee County officials said a 17-year-old boy broke in to a family's home five times in one month.

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Cherokee County police are hunting for the man who robbed and attacked a woman in her neighborhood in broad daylight.

Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services Training Chief Eddie Robinson responded to a deadly fire June 3 in Lake Arrowhead.

Anderson Pawn owner Mark Anderson shows a firearm to customer Todd Davis. He carries firearms, boats, commercial-grade tools and electronics.