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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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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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White Water gets first OK for new slide
Six Flags White Water is planning to debut a new five-story water slide in May, with help from the Marietta Planning ...
05:28 AM, Thursday, January 03
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A Cobb Sheriff's Deputy directs Chance, a bomb detection canine, to inspect the landscaping around the Superior Courthouse on Wednesday morning. STAFF/LAURA MOON.
Cobb Courthouse locked down after bomb threat
Sheriff’s deputies directed people attempting to enter the Cobb State Courthouse back to Glover Park to wait while ex...
02:08 AM, Thursday, January 03
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Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-east Cobb.)
Isakson: Fiscal cliff deal makes Bush tax rates permanent
Isakson said he voted for the deal because it made permanent the Bush tax rates for “99.1 percent” of the American pe...
12:07 AM, Thursday, January 03
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Arrest made in Marietta robbery
Ten months of investigative work have resulted in the arrest of a McDonough man who allegedly tied up a Marietta resi...
10:30 PM, Wednesday, January 02
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Jim and Brittany Roberts welcomed twin boys into their family on New Year’s Day. Here, they hold Gage Cooper as Jasper Peyton rests in intensive care.
Couple finds double joy on New Year’s Day
Jim and Brittany Roberts of Douglasville welcomed a second set of twin boys into the world early Tuesday morning at W...
03:05 PM, Wednesday, January 02
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Tom Price
U.S. Rep. Price opposes $900 pay raise for Congress
In addition to passing legislation that would block across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts, U.S. officials ...
12:46 AM, Wednesday, January 02
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Driving permits expanded under new DUI law
Georgia law has changed, effective Jan. 1, regarding limited licenses for those convicted of driving under the influe...
12:45 AM, Wednesday, January 02
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Senator Judson Hill <br>(R-Marietta)
Cobb lawmakers have eye on balancing state budget
Georgia lawmakers, who are set to start their 2013 session in two weeks, are already looking at the achievements they...
12:37 AM, Wednesday, January 02
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Police identify man hit by train on New Year's Eve
MARIETTA - Marietta Police have identified the man who died Monday after a train struck him near the Marietta Square...
12:22 PM, Tuesday, January 01
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Patrick Burr
Police arrest Marietta man in shooting death
Police have arrested a woman’s ex-boyfriend in connection with the Sunday afternoon shooting death of a man at a home...
12:15 AM, Tuesday, January 01
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