Alpharetta News

Survivors of attacks by flesh-eating bacteria, like the type ravaging a young Georgia woman, tell of agony so severe that a full dose of morphine can't dull it "Doctors asked me to rate the scale of pain.

Zoo Atlanta will bring the animals to you as it sends the ZooMobile to library branches throughout Fulton County, including four visits to Johns Creek on June 16 and 30 and July 5 and 21.

Memorial Day celebrations begin today with runners hitting the pavement on North Point Parkway before celebrations begin at Milton and Roswell city halls.

Rare coins sometimes turn up at smaller auctions, as did this Proof 1844 Seated Liberty dollar offered May 12 by Chicago-area dealer Fox Valley Coins.

With summer on the horizon, vacation time has arrived for families. But the familly pet can't always stay at the beach resort, or go to Disney World with you.

As intrigued as Joshua Dobbs has been about Arizona State since they started recruiting him, there was only so much he could learn about the school from phone calls and online research.

Congressman Tom Price, a Republican from Roswell, is certain to face a Democratic challenger in the November General Election-but apparently he won't have an opponent in the Republican Primary July 31.

Alpharetta-based Staffing Technologies has named Rob Pierce as branch manager for its Alpharetta office.

U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall has a challenger from Suwanee in his bid for re-election. David Hancock, chief operating officer of Alpharetta-based Automation Control Products, has qualified as a Republican to challenge Woodall, according to records with the Georgia Secretary of State's Office.

Alpharetta, GA , Friday - May 25th, 2012 -- The company's first airport location will be in the Concourse B food court and is scheduled to open in October.

Summer is here and there are days when it is just too hot to be outside. Cool off and take the kids to the movies.

The slate of candidates for the July 31 general primary is almost set. Qualifying A ended atA noon today, but nonpartisan candidates have been given an extension: noon Saturday at theA Cherokee County Elections and Voter Registration Office , 400 E. Main St., Canton.

North American Properties Atlanta has released the following statement regarding its Avalon project at Old Milton Parkway and Westside Parkway in Alpharetta: "After receiving the unanimous approval of the Alpharetta City Council, we are excited to announce Avalon's official construction timeline.

King's Ridge Christian School blessed the ground today, May 25, at the spot on the Alpharetta campus where its new high school will be built.

The sales planned for the weekend are full of furniture, yard items and there are many antiques as well.

Deidre Romeo was 40 years old when she started college. Pamela Monroe was 42. Believing that more education would lead inevitably to better-paying jobs and improved lives, both women received bachelor's degrees, and continued on to graduate school.

ALPHARETTA, Ga., May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- LocumTenens.com, the country's largest job board for the locum tenens industry and full-service physician staffing agency, has made the job search easier for physicians seeking locum tenens assignments by launching a new optimized website to support mobile device users.

Earlier this month on a sunny Saturday morning, Lisa Baxter and her fiance, Mike Janovic, loaded up their three dogs -- a beagle, a Pomeranian and a Chihuahua -- for an outing at the Brook Run Dog Park, an off leash dog run in Dunwoody.

Zoo Atlanta will bring the animals to you as it sends the ZooMobile to library branches throught Fulton County, including two visits to Alpharetta on June 20 and July 23.

If you don't click it, you're going to get a ticket. That's a promise from the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety , which announced the Governor's Office of Highway safety's " Click IT or Ticket " initiative is underway.