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Woman living in hotel charged after toddler found ...
by Marietta Daily Journal Staff
01:21 PM, Tuesday, May 21
A local woman living in a hotel in Kennesaw is accused of neglecting her 4-year-old child after leaving the child home alone for six hours. Fumiko Blakely allegedly left her child without supervision at the Green Roof Inn and Suites while she w...

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Marietta mulls different options for rec center
Little movement has marked the city’s promise to spend $3.75 million on a new or renovated Elizabeth Porter Recreatio...
12:00 AM, Saturday, January 05
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Taxi Driver robbed at gunpoint
MARIETTA – Police are investigating an armed robbery of a taxi driver that happened early Friday near Powder Springs...
03:38 PM, Friday, January 04
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Buford man killed in crash on I-285 in Smyrna
SMYRNA - The Cobb County Police Department’s S.T.E.P Unit is investigating a fatal crash that occurred on the ramp f...
10:09 AM, Friday, January 04
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Bob Ott
New Cobb code would check for illegal workers
The Cobb Board of Commissioners is eyeing a code change that would affect contractors under a federal program designe...
12:27 AM, Friday, January 04
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Dr. Ernest Easley, senior pastor of Roswell Street Baptist Church, left, and wrestler Rocky King hold King's championship belts at the church's office on Wednesday. Easley will serve as a manager and King will wrestle as part of a Wrestling Extravaganza event for charity.<br>Staff/Emily Barnes
Wrestling event to raise money for homeless veterans
Rocky King, who wrestled with the WCW and NWA for about 20 years, has invited Braves pitcher John Rocker and Roswell ...
12:10 AM, Friday, January 04
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Isakson chosen for key Senate post on finance committee
U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson was appointed Thursday to the Senate Committee on Finance, a key posting that provides overs...
12:00 AM, Friday, January 04
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Dayton Hibbs, Associate Superintendent of Marietta City Schools, addresses the faculty and staff of Marietta High School at the conclusion of Thursday morning's safety seminar. STAFF/LAURA MOON.
Marietta High staff gets training for ‘active shooter’ loc...
Marietta High School staff members were reminded Thursday about necessary safety measures in the event of a shooting ...
12:00 AM, Friday, January 04
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Brad Hulsey Powder Springs City Manager
Powder Springs council debates home-based repair shop
The most controversial topic at the Powder Springs City Council’s regular meeting, set for Monday night, may be whet...
12:00 AM, Friday, January 04
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Jeff Duckett
Kennesaw to confirm 2013 mayor pro tem
The Kennesaw City Council is expected to confirm Councilman Jeff Duckett as its 2013 mayor pro tem during its regular...
12:00 AM, Friday, January 04
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Attorney General Sam Olens (MDJ File/Erin Gray)
Settlement reached in care lawsuit against a Marietta nurs...
The owner of a Marietta nursing home has settled with the state and federal governments to resolve allegations that ...
12:00 AM, Friday, January 04
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Cobb records first homicide of 2013
Police are searching for two suspects in connection to Cobb County’s first homicide of 2013.
12:00 AM, Friday, January 04
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Scott Johnson
Cobb man to serve on state Board of Education
Scott Johnson, 55, was named Thursday to the 11th Congressional District state board. It was one of 17 appointments G...
12:00 AM, Friday, January 04
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Cupid concerned about about parking lot gun sales in Cobb
Cupid says gun violence is all too common in her district. She's concerned that illegal person-to-person gun sales co...
07:13 PM, Thursday, January 03
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Cobb GOP Party Chairman Joe Dendy and Georgia Republican Party Chairwoman Sue Everhart of east Cobb say they can’t believe that congressional Republicans would ‘compromise’ with Democrats late Tuesday night in striking a tax law deal to avert the ‘fiscal cliff.’
Cobb Republican leaders ‘disgusted’ by fiscal cliff deal
Dendy, Everhart say own party members caved in to Democrats
08:35 AM, Thursday, January 03
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Smyrna water rates going up 6%
The city of Smyrna’s more than 14,000 water customers recently received notices telling them their rates are increasi...
06:26 AM, Thursday, January 03
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