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1 killed, 3 injured in Cobb wreck
One woman was killed and three others injured when two vehicles collided early Saturday afternoon in Cobb County. Police said Irene Giannangelo, 72, was driving north on Mars Hill Road around 12:20 p.m. when her 2011 white Ford Escape crossed the center line for unknown reasons and struck a white ...
East-west transit trip reveals riders’ woes
Two and a half hours. That’s about how long it takes to fly nonstop from Atlanta to New York City. It’s also how long it took me to travel from Duluth to Marietta on metro Atlanta’s public transit systems. Is this the best that a world-class city can do? Voters ...
Making the trip by car a stop-and-go affair
When we started this venture, reporter Andria Simmons and I joked that I might be getting the worst end of the deal. Everyone knows that battling traffic in metro Atlanta — especially during morning rush hour — is usually an extremely frustrating task. However, I knew that Atlanta Journal-Constitution readers ...
Lawmakers focus on transit coordination
When the transportation sales tax referendum sank last year, many feared metro Atlanta transit was doomed to remain disjointed and underfunded. Funding challenges remain, but an effort is under way at the state Capitol to unite the Atlanta region’s four major transit providers and create a more seamless system. A ...
Cops: Woman struck child with golf club
A Cobb County woman was arrested for allegedly striking a juvenile with a golf club, according to police. Anna Lee Balogun, of Austell, was charged with first degree child cruelty after striking the boy twice in the abdomen with an aluminum eight-iron club during an argument, according to the arrest ...
Family questions ex-detective's claims that wife killed herself
Family questions ex-detective's claims that wife killed herself
Vet police detective fired for allegedly using steroids
Vet police detective fired for allegedly using steroids
Boys, 14, 16, charged in stabbing death of Marietta teen
Boys, 14, 16, charged in stabbing death of Marietta teen
Boys, 14 and 16, charged in stabbing death of Marietta teen
Two boys, ages 14 and 16, have been charged with the weekend stabbing death of another teenager near a Marietta bus terminal. Around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Marietta police officers responding to reports of an unconscious person in a grassy area near the Cobb Community Transit terminal on South Marietta Parkway ...
Government shut down leads to closing of local National Park Service sites
One of the immediate local impacts from the overnight partial shutdown of the federal government will be the shuttering of National Park Service facilities in metro Atlanta, including the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park and the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. Personnel at ...
RAW VIDEO: Mother of BJ Smith talks about son's death
RAW VIDEO: Mother of BJ Smith talks about son's death
Police search for suspects in local college student's death
Police search for suspects in local college student's death
Tuskegee mourns Mableton senior killed at off-campus party
No matter how tense the situation, his friends say, Bobby “B.J.” Smith kept smiling. The Tuskegee University senior was the type to stop fights, not start them, which made the news that he had been shot dead Friday night at an off-campus party all the more unsettling. “He was running ...
Ghana president visits Kennesaw State University
Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama addressed students, faculty and staff at Kennesaw State University Monday, the first such visit by a sitting head of state in the school’s 50-year history. Before an audience of 600 at KSU’s Bailey and Family Performance Center, Mahama said economic and political conditions are improving ...
College student from Cobb shot to death in Alabama
A Cobb County high school graduate was gunned down at a block party Friday night in Alabama. Bobby “B.J.” Smith, 21, was a senior finance major at Tuskegee University, where he played on the tennis team. Smith died after being shot in the back during a block party, according to ...
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