Rockdale County News

This year, the Fourth of July lands on a Saturday, but celebrations are planned all weekend.

A Rockdale County sheriff's deputy was life-flighted to Grady Memorial Hospital Friday afternoon after his patrol car slammed into the side of a house and flipped over.

A Rockdale County deputy crashed his car on the way to a burglary call. It happened in Conyers near the intersection of Adrian Circle and McDaniel Mill Road.

Baby Aiden Baynes Baby Aiden Baynes, 3 months of Social Circle, died on June 6, 2009.

With the help of the Rockdale Cooperative Extension Office, the summer campers at Destiny Star Academy turned a new leaf, literally.

The United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta and the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgia are working together to improve access to health care for residents in five Georgia counties.

A Severe Thunderstorm Warning has been issued for Henry County and southwestern Rockdale County until 5:15 pm.

Peggy Lawrence -- Director of Food Service for Rockdale County schools and the regional spokesperson for the School Nutrition Association -- talks about the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act.

In celebration of Annual Emergency Medical Services Week, National EMS recognized several employees for various aspects of service; four of the employees honored work on Athens and Oconee ambulances, and continue to service members of the local community.

The former head of the Smyrna Human Resources Department is now charged with stealing from the city.

Remember Raven Johnson -- we brought you her story a few weeks ago. The 18-year-old from Rockdale County has been so sick, her heart stopped once.

The Georgia Department of Transportation Friday awarded its first federal stimulus-funded contracts for highway projects across the state, with construction due to begin next month.

A three-year contract for Craig George Dowling, 56, of Conyers, Ga., was unanimously approved May 7 by the Harris County School Board to become superintendent of Harris County Schools.

One person was injured when a car slammed into a building in Conyers, said Rockdale County Fire Department authorities.

Maggie Carolyn Woods slipped away quietly before dawn on Mothers' Day. One of her sons, Roger Woods, who had recently moved in to help care for her, said she took her last breath around 3 a.m. For two days, the family had kept a vigil at Mrs.

The Helping Hands clinic in Rockdale County, which provides medical assistance to those who have no health insurance, needs some helping hands itself: The non-profit is seeking physicians and dentists to volunteer a few hours a month at its free clinic in Conyers.

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.

Atlanta attorney and children's advocate Don Keenan has a plan to make dangerous playgrounds across metro Atlanta safer.

Three men who are seasoned educators have been named as finalists for superintendent of Harris County Schools by the county school board.