Newton County News

Newton County officials say a shooting at a residence near Covington left one man dead, and another man and a teenager were wounded.

Authorities in Newton County Monday were investigating a triple shooting at a home south of Covington.

Two people escaped with bruises when a plane landed and flipped in a Georgia field where the economic downturn delayed construction of homes, officials said.

A small plane made an emergency landing in a Newton County rock quarry Wednesday afternoon.

An arrest has been made in the murder of a Newton County man whose body was found in a creek.

Authorities have arrested a 22-year-old Covington man for the slaying of a landscaper who was found in a Newton County creek.

Authorities have identified a body found in a Newton County creek as a 55-year-old landscaper from Conyers and said they believe the case is a homicide.

A Newton County teen is safe from a 61-year-old man police are calling a child predator.

Thousands of dollars in counterfeit goods were seized at a Newton County flea market.

It's not just grief that family members are contending with following the slaying of 25-year-old Heather Strube.

Meet the latest dire threat to the good people of Newton County, Georgia: 10 year-old cap pistol owner Alandis Ford.

A double fatal wreck closed down I-20 eastbound in Newton County Thursday morning.

Newton County Sheriff's deputies have arrested two suspects and are looking for a third in a robbery that led to two schools being locked down.

Newton County authorities placed two schools on lockdown Tuesday as a precaution as they search for a robbery suspect from Conyers.

Covington Police and the Secret Service are investigating a case of forgery in Newton County.

Jay Kuhr stands inside an old chicken house near his Farmington home, alongside the camera he often uses.

Covington seventh-grader Austin Short was allowed to stay at school Friday, face mask and all.

A seventh-grader sent home from school Thursday for refusing to remove a surgical mask, headed back to school Friday still wearing the mask as protection against swine flu.

A seventh-grader who wore a mask that had been given to him by his mother to guard against swine flu was sent home from from school after he refused to remove it.

Authorities say 35-year-old Marie Elaina Carley, of Conyers, apparently drowned after falling into the rushing water at Factory Shoals Park.