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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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Front row from left, former Georgia governors Carl Sanders and Roy Barnes; back row from left, Joe Daniell, son of former Cobb County School Board member Herman Daniell; former Marietta City Schools Superintendent Lloyd Cox and former Cobb County School Board member John Strother gather to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kennesaw State University.
Class is in Session: Governors Sanders, Barnes on rise of KSU
As the 25,000-student Kennesaw State University prepares to mark its 50th anniversary this October, some of the peopl...
12:12 AM, Monday, May 06
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Marietta resident Khalilah Greer competes in rhythmic gymnastics during this year’s USAGymnastics Special Olympics Championships.
Locals compete in Special Olympics championships
Almost 50 Special Olympics athletes from Cobb competed against participants from 12 different states and Canada in th...
12:12 AM, Monday, May 06
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Sheriff: Train killed Austell residents
Three people died when a passenger train smashed into a car as it moved over railroad tracks at a darkened, unprotect...
12:42 AM, Sunday, May 05
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Georgia State School Superintendent and Campbell High School graduate John Barge, above, addresses a packed room of Republicans on Saturday morning during the Cobb County GOP annual breakfast, offering insight to the Common Core curriculum, which the Cobb County Board of Education rejected in a 4-3 vote to pay $7.5 million for new math textbooks. <br>Staff/Kelly J. Huff
Getting to the (Common) Core of the matter
Ga. schools superintendent addresses concerns about a federal curriculum
12:41 AM, Sunday, May 05
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Renee Southland and Eugene Anderson display the Alpharetta-Smyrna Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity’s banner at an event with Krimson Community Foundation to screen ‘42,’ the story of Jackie Robinson, at the NGC Cinemas in Marietta.
Mentoring program participants gather for ‘42’ screening
The constant cold rain Saturday made it a perfect morning to go to the movie theater, and an audience invited by the ...
12:37 AM, Sunday, May 05
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Cobb GOP quizzes Barge on program
MARIETTA — During a talk about the controversial Common Core Standards at the Cobb GOP’s Saturday breakfast, a local ...
12:34 AM, Sunday, May 05
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Arrow Exterminator’s Service Professional Dave Lofquist exits trees in the back yard of an east Cobb neighborhood Friday afternoon after spraying the plants and yard for adult mosquitoes for a local customer.
Mild winter has local mosquitoes buzzing
The mild, wet winter followed by a rainy spring has set the table for a perfect storm of another sort this summer — m...
12:33 AM, Sunday, May 05
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Birrell, Pond in game of chicken
Commissioner faces new ethics complaint from fowl proponent
12:30 AM, Sunday, May 05
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Kennesaw State University Culinary and Hospitality Services Campus Executive Chef Billy Skiber harvests some adult lettuce for a dish he is preparing for students in the dining facility at The Commons on campus. The staff harvests more than 700 heads every three weeks after growing them hydroponically.
KSU culinary degree gets back to roots
The phrase “food for thought” could not be any more true for the high level of care the Kennesaw State University Cul...
12:28 AM, Sunday, May 05
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Joseph Rickey Hampton
Mother: ‘Please forgive him’
Woman makes plea for son at hearing on fatal Marietta bar shooting
12:38 AM, Saturday, May 04
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City wraps up park projects; others begin
The $1 million in improvements to one city park, Laurel Park, will be completed by the end of May, and the city is ad...
12:03 AM, Saturday, May 04
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The remains of Waleed Jaraysi’s unfinished wedding hall are seen from the South Marietta Parkway on Friday
12th time not the charm for Jaraysi in suit
Yet another judge, the 12th since 2007, has ruled against Waleed “Lee” Jaraysi, telling him his lawsuit against the c...
12:00 AM, Saturday, May 04
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Cobb under flood watch
Forecast wreaks havoc on events planned outdoors
12:00 AM, Saturday, May 04
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The 12th annual Cherokee Friends Formal is tonight. Freshman Matthew Dowda-Taylor will be attending the dance. Here, his mother, Kathy Dowda-Taylor, helps him practice how to properly escort his friend, junior Ansley Key, in preparation for the event.
Special needs teens, peers to dance night away in downtown...
Put on at the Cherokee County Recreation Center in downtown Woodstock, the 12th annual Friends Formal is given by a c...
11:48 PM, Friday, May 03
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Bo Bryant, left, Les Saunders and Dr. Justin Boggs, seated, from Stonebridge Church in Marietta lead the participants in this year's Cobb County Prayer Breakfast at the Cobb Galleria Centre in praise and worship on Thursday morning. STAFF/LAURA MOON.
Powerful message: 1,000 meet for Cobb’s annual prayer brea...
Residents prayed for the county, state and nation, listened to scriptural readings, sang songs of worship and heard k...
12:25 AM, Friday, May 03
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