Cobb County News

Miss Cobb County Emily Cook, left, clasps hands with Miss Capital City Kristina Higgins, right, during the Miss Georgia pageant in Columbus Saturday.

Gov. Sonny Perdue's Judicial Nominating Commission has submitted recommendations to fill the vacancy on the Georgia Supreme Court created by the resignation of Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears.

The next meeting of the Georgia Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association will be held on Saturday, July 11, 2009, at 10:30 a.m. at the Chattahoochee Nature Center in Roswell.

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

Winning Spirit Sports is a Kennesaw company that sure says all the right things, like promising to pay others for helping disadvantaged youth in Cobb County.

Less than 24 hours after winning the crown, Miss Capital City Kristina Higgins has stepped down from her role as Miss Georgia.

A Pennsylvania man who got stuck in a hotel elevator spent the night in the Cobb County jail after he allegedly damaged the elevator trying to kick his way out.

A group of teenagers, caught on camera damaging a Cobb County community pool, are draining the pockets of those who live there.

Cobb County Police have arrested a Georgia Correctional Officer on child porn charges.

Smyrna police are investigating a fatal stabbing Sunday night at a Cobb County apartment complex.

ATLANTA a ' Some of the state's top defense attorneys and prosecutors gathered at the Georgia Supreme Court on Monday to hear an unusual argument that could determine the fate of a law that bars a murderer from inheriting money from a victim.

Several schools across the state are cracking down on student drinking and drug abuse.

Here's another example of how the recession is changing the way we do things. State and local governments are conducting fire sales of old equipment and they're selling it on-line. Marietta was the first city in Georgia to do it.

An alligator is feasting, fat, and probably not so festive as it prowls the banks of the Chattahoochee River underneath the I-285 bridge on Atlanta's northside.

A former employee of the VA hospital in DeKalb County has been accused of stealing four BlackBerry telephones and running up $10,355 worth of charges.

State and federal officials have signed off on 11 sewer and water projects costing $91 million that are designed to improve infrastructure systems throughout Georgia.

White Water, the Cobb County water park, closed suddenly Tuesday afternoon ordering park visitors out of the water and to leave the park immediately.

For the second straight year, 51 of the nationa s 1,500 best public high schools are in Georgia, according to Newsweek magazine.

Saying he did not want to cause the county any further embarrassment, Arthur Reese has resigned his position as Rockdale County's human resources director.

A man has been arrested in suburban Atlanta in connection with an 18-year-old New York City cold case murder.