Austell News

Has it really been nine years? It was in September, 2000 when 11 Year Old Ashley Smith of Austell was suspended from her Cobb County school for ten days because she was carrying a Tweety Bird key chain, with "Ashley" printed underneath the picture of Tweety so it would never get lost at school.

AUSTELL, Ga. -- On Christmas morning, 5-year-old Rebecca Pierce tore open a present from Santa.

Victims of September's historic floods have spent months trying to rebuild their lives, but few have the extra money needed to stuff their children's stockings.

This Christmas holiday took on new meaning for the families who lost their homes after Georgia's historic flood.

An Austell family will celebrate this Christmas holiday in a home that was gutted during Georgia's historic flood.

Three months after flood waters destroyed homes and swallowed entire neighborhoods, flood survivors are still trying to rebuild their lives.

The Peach has been hanging in the paint shop, awaiting the yearly once-over that will prep the 800-pound, fiberglass icon for its close-up moment on New Year's Eve.

Two people are dead and four others injured in a one-vehicle accident that closed a portion of eastbound Interstate 20 in Cobb County for several hours.

Two people died and four were injured Sunday afternoon as the result of a single-car crash thatA resulted in the closure of allA eastbound lanes of I-20. Around 1:30 p.m., a 2003 silver Ford Explorer flipped several times after a tire blew out on the interstate between Factory Shoals Road and Riverside Parkway in Austell, Cobb County police ...

Hundreds of Austell homeowners packed into a meeting room at the city's Threadmill Complex on Saturday afternoon to receive information about a proposed Federal Emergency Management Agency buyout program.

Austell, GA 30106 City of Austell Threadmill Complex, 5000 Austell-Powder Springs Road, Austell, 30106.

Joe Jerkins runs Austell. For two decades, he's been the mayor, city manager and undisputed boss man in this blue-collar town of 7,000. When a crisis hits, like the September floods, he dives into the middle of it.

A life-sized bronze statue of Austell Mayor Joe Jerkins will be unveiled at 3 p.m. Thursday in a new downtown park at Veterans Memorial Highway and Love Street.

Kennesaw City Council member Bruce Jenkins has been elected chairman of the Cobb Municipal Association.

"Thus it is said that one who knows the enemy and knows himself will not be endangered in a hundred engagements." Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

Among the surprises at a panel Thursday morning of influential legislators on the House Education Committee was this statement from the grand dame of education reform and longtime House member, Atlanta Democrat Kathy Ashe: a oeI would vote for a voucher bill if the receiving school is willing to give their students the assessments that students are ...

For one night only Santa roams the halls of Compton Elementary School in Powder Springs.

Cobb County detectives arrested Seron Edshon Shepherd and charged her with involuntary manslaughter, second-degree cruelty to a child and deprivation of a minor.

A Cobb County mother was facing charges Tuesday in connection with the death of her 7-month-old son.

A 28-year-old Austell woman has been arrested in connection with the death of her 7-month-old son.