Haralson County News

Listed below is the Haralson County arrest report for Saturday June 15, 2013. The report includes a complete list of arrests, information regarding prior arrests, bonding information and available inmate photos.

Johnny Cook drove a bus for the Haralson County, Georgia, school system, and he got upset when a middle school student told him he didn't get to eat because his lunch card was 40 cents short.

Johns Creek police are searching for a missing 15-year-old boy. Authorities said that Daniel McPherson was last seen at his home in the Silver Ridge subdivision near Taylor and Jones Bridge roads around 6 p.m. on Tuesday.

A police officer was injured and a suspect was killed in Clayton County on Friday.

Gwinnett County police are searching for a handgun stolen from a restaurant. Investigators say a man took a bag containing a Glock pistol from the Taqueria Del Mar on Peachtree Parkway on May 19. The gun belonged to a man who accidentally left it behind after eating dinner.

A bus driver who says he was fired over a Facebook post about a hungry student is rapidly becoming an online folk hero, but at what cost? On May 21, Johnny Cook, a driver for the Haralson County School System in Tallapoosa, Ga., posted a status update about a middle-school student who said he was denied a meal because his reduced-lunch card was 40 ... (more)

Listed below is the Haralson County arrest report for Thursday May 30, 2013. The report includes a complete list of arrests, information regarding prior arrests, bonding information and available inmate photos.

You're a school bus driver at Haralson County Middle School in Georgia. A 6th-grader gets on your bus and complains he's hungry.

A new law bringing numerous changes to the juvenile justice system will help the system's effectiveness, according to one local official.

Haralson County, Georgia, school bus driver Johnny Cook couldn't get the story out of his head: A middle school student told him he hadn't eaten because he'd been turned away due to a 40-cent balance on his pre-paid school lunch account.

The 24/7 Wall Street web site named Atlanta as the city where suburban poverty has sky-rocketed the most in the last ten years.

A school bus driver for Haralson County Schools in Alabama was terminated after he posted a comment on Facebook about a student not receiving a free lunch.

A Coweta County resident will head the West Georgia Technical College Foundation for the next year, as the college opens its new Coweta County campus off Turkey Creek Road with classes starting this fall.

As it turns out, there's no such thing as the freedom to complain about the lack of free lunches either.

A metro Atlanta school district is being accused of not providing free lunches to its students in need.

Memorial Day weekend marks the start of the summer boating season. Authorities are reminding folks that there are some new laws on Georgia's waterways.

A section of Lenox Road in Atlanta was closed as authorities investigated an unattended backpack on Friday.

Listed below is the Haralson County arrest report for Saturday May 18, 2013. The report includes a complete list of arrests, information regarding prior arrests, bonding information and available inmate photos.