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MARTA seeks input on north Fulton transit
A little more than a year ago MARTA started the Connect 400 campaign, also known as The GA 400 Corridor Transit Initi...
12:00 AM, Saturday, January 26
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19-year-olds arrested in Cobb murder
Dedric Raheem Baisden and Dwight Foster Moore, both 19 years old, were arrested Thursday and Friday on charges of fel...
12:00 AM, Saturday, January 26
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Marietta Wrecker employees remove debris from the van in which Mahmoud Dabdoub of Marietta was killed Friday morning after being struck by a tractor-trailer rig on Cobb Parkway. <br>Laura Moon
Fatal wreck takes another toll on Marietta family
A 49-year-old Marietta man was killed Friday morning, police say, when the driver of a tractor-trailer pulled out in ...
12:00 AM, Saturday, January 26
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Special Olympics Coach Bobbie King carries the Cobb County flag with Candace Bryant, 12, of Powder Springs; her sister, Ainjel Bryant, 3; and Charlie Schwartz, 17, of Kennesaw; during the parade of athletes at the opening ceremony for the Special Olympics Georgia 2013 State Indoor Winter Games, at the Cobb Civic Center on Friday evening. Events run through Sunday.<br>Staff/Emily Barnes
Special Olympics: Let the games begin!
182 athletes represent Cobb as thousands compete in Special Olympics Indoor Winter Games throughout county
12:00 AM, Saturday, January 26
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Food Mart in Austell raided for alleged drug sales and gam...
Cobb County Police have made several arrests after investigating gambling and drug sales at the Food Mart at 370 Six ...
01:13 PM, Friday, January 25
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Cobb Police identify and arrest suspects involved in Jan. ...
AUSTELL - The Cobb County Police Department's Crimes Against Persons Unit has arrested two men in connection with the...
01:02 PM, Friday, January 25
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Some schools close as north Georgia braces for ice and sleet
Most of the Atlanta metro area and northwest Georgia were under a freezing rain advisory through 1 p.m. Friday.
08:08 AM, Friday, January 25
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Newcomer Cupid blocks Chairman Lee's appointment to Cobb's...
County Chairman Tim Lee had planned to ask commissioners this week to appoint former Chamber of Commerce chairman and...
12:36 AM, Friday, January 25
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Marietta City Councilman Grif Chalfant says the neighborhood dispute over the installation of six speed tables in the Lee’s Crossing subdivision is the result of who gets to vote on the issue and who doesn’t. <br>Staff/Emily Barnes
Neighbors at odds over who votes on installation of speed ...
A traffic issue so contentious it pits neighbor against neighbor is brewing in Lee’s Crossing, a subdivision south o...
12:32 AM, Friday, January 25
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Members of the audience take their seats for a Gun Safety Seminar for the public, conducted by the Marietta Police Department, at Marietta Middle School. <br>Staff/Emily Barnes
Hundreds pack MPD seminar on firearms safety
An audience of around 550 people crowded into the Marietta Middle School Auditorium on Thursday for a lesson in firea...
12:00 AM, Friday, January 25
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Congestion builds on a Friday afternoon on Interstate 75 northbound after the interchange with Interstate 285 in June. A GDOT official said Thursday that the $951 million ‘reversible lanes’ toll-road project to alleviate traffic along Interstates 75 and 575 through Cobb and Cherokee counties is expected to be open to traffic in April 2018.<br>Staff/file
Official: reversible lanes opening in 2018
The toll rate for the 29.7-mile road project has yet to be set by the State Road and Tollway Authority, but it will f...
12:00 AM, Friday, January 25
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Staff members and students in the Information Technology Services at Kennesaw State University will be recognized as one of 40 organizations to receive the CSO40 award for their work with the Net I.D. system they customized for the university’s use in April. Those who have contributed in the software customization include, from left, Information Technology Services Executive Director Lectra Lawhorne, Associate Director McCree Lake, junior Steven Carver, senior Matt Sims, Associate Director Stephen Gay, Identity and Access Management Engineer Tobias Quosigk, ITS System Support Professional V Herman Owens and Anay Limaye.<br>Staff/Laura Moon
KSU’s IT department earns honor for work on enhancing secu...
The university will accept the 2013 CSO40 Award from International Data Group’s CSO magazine in April.
12:00 AM, Friday, January 25
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Cobb school board loosens visitation policy for board members
Member David Banks, who was the subject of a proposed censure last summer by colleague Kathleen Angelucci, made the m...
12:00 AM, Friday, January 25
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Help for Homeowners event Friday
AUSTELL — The city of Austell announced U.S. Rep. David Scott (D-Atlanta) will hold a Help for Homeowners event Frid...
02:13 PM, Thursday, January 24
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Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren pens letter supporting 2nd Amendm...
Sheriff voices his strong support of the right to bear arms
12:00 PM, Thursday, January 24
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