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PD: Dallas woman left blood in break-in
12:25 PM, Tuesday, May 21
A Dallas woman is accused of breaking in to a man’s home and stealing large amounts cash from his home. Amanda Atcheson allegedly broke in to a Marietta man’s home by smashing his bathroom window before stealing $5,000 in cash. Atcheson also in...

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Acworth officials eye annexation of Cobb property
Landowners on ‘islands’ say they’re becoming victims of ‘annexation without representation’
12:52 AM, Wednesday, May 01
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Brandon Carpenter, with his mother Sandra Carpenter, was surprised recently at Lassiter High School when the junior was treated to a ‘Superhero Day’ dedicated to the young man who was diagnosed with the rare genetic neuro-muscular disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy before his fifth birthday.<br>Special to the MDJ
Superhero: Lassiter students dress up to surprise 17-year-old
Lassiter High School junior Brandon Carpenter has been using a wheelchair since he was 10 years old, when he was di...
12:41 AM, Wednesday, May 01
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Hazmat team removes bomb from dead man’s home
The Cobb County Bomb Squad spent almost five hours Monday determining whether a bomb found in a dead man’s home off P...
12:13 AM, Wednesday, May 01
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Police: Fatal train hit likely suicide
Acworth police say they think a train accident resulting in the death of a local man was a suicide. Just after 8 p.m....
12:12 AM, Wednesday, May 01
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Christopher Bishop, 50, was found dead in his home on Lake Rill Court in east Cobb after an early morning fire Sunday was extinguished and the area could be searched. The cause of the fire is being investigated.
Fatal fire on Lake Rill: Man, 50, found dead in home
A man died early Sunday morning during a house fire in the Hunters Trace subdivision in east Cobb. Christopher Bishop...
12:09 AM, Wednesday, May 01
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Police: Men living in apartment illegally
Two Florida men were arrested last week after police said they were living illegally in an apartment complex in Marie...
12:00 AM, Wednesday, May 01
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Holly Springs police officer Shane Ladner is no longer employed with the police department. Ladner allegedly falsified his record to gain entry to a parade last November that provided honorees with an all-expenses-paid whitetail deer hunt.
Former officer accused of lying about purple heart
A Holly Springs police officer whose wife lost her leg in an accident in Midland, Texas, last fall during a parade ho...
12:36 AM, Tuesday, April 30
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Police look into 2 armed robberies: Three robbers still at...
Two separate armed robberies in Mableton during the past week have police investigators looking for clues. In one inc...
12:34 AM, Tuesday, April 30
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Autopsy: Teenager’s sudden death not result of foul play
An autopsy on a Columbus State University music student from Cobb County showed the young woman’s death was not the r...
12:31 AM, Tuesday, April 30
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Cobb settles on tentative budget cuts: Cutting 182 teacher...
After weeks of debate, the Cobb County School Board has approved a tentative budget with $86.4 million in proposed cu...
12:24 AM, Tuesday, April 30
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Robert Moon of Smryna, center, points to where his neighborhood is as he takes advantage of Monday’s clear skies to enjoy the panoramic views from atop Kennesaw Mountain with Lucy Patrick of Rome, his aunt Teresa Evans of Powder Springs, and her dad Amos Lowery of Smyrna.
Sequestration: National parks in Cobb looking down barrel ...
Heading into the busy summer season, national parks in Cobb are doing what they can to lessen the impact of sequestra...
12:16 AM, Tuesday, April 30
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The Cobb School Board approves a tentative $894 million bu...
The Cobb School Board approved its tentative budget with a 4-3 vote.
03:05 PM, Monday, April 29
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Sunrise at East Cobb resident Isabelle Davies Stange Keeling Burton celebrated her 100th birthday Sunday with family and friends. Hank Glenn of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church presents Burton with a box of almost 100 birthday cards from church members.
Cobb woman dances her way to 100th birthday
On Sunday afternoon, Isabelle Burton, who turns 100 today, sat in the front row at the Sunrise senior living center a...
12:18 AM, Monday, April 29
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Seventh-grader Cobe Jackson, 12, left, and eighth-grader Nicolas Badila, 14, each received an $800 scholarship for the anti-bullying website they created for the 2013 Middle School WEBChallenge Competition and a week at MAD Junior iOS/Android App Development Summer Camp by the Kennesaw State University Coles College of Business.
The anti-bullies: Students create educational anti-bullyin...
A Cobb County seventh grader has used willpower, music and technology to overcome his three-year struggle with being ...
12:04 AM, Monday, April 29
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Event-goers take advantage of a break in the rain to check out the Taste of Marietta.
Taste of Marietta festival a hit: Rain didn’t keep event-g...
Although the weather closed the 20th annual Taste of Marietta festival a few hours early, by all accounts the estimat...
12:00 AM, Monday, April 29
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