Austell News

Austell residents weren't getting the answers they wanted at Monday night's City Council meeting.

It was an extraordinary surprise for the students at once-flooded Clarkdale Elementary School.

This Sunday, local musicians will join together at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre for The Band Aid Relief Benefit for Clarkdale Elementary.

Posted By: Ross McLaughlin WEB EXCLUSIVE: The September floods in Atlanta may be nothing but a memory for many, but for some it's painfully obvious every day.

Two incumbents were voted out of office Tuesday night by sweeping victories in Cobb's flood stricken cities.

Jill Robbins didn't pay attention to flood maps until September's rain pushed Sweetwater Creek into her home.

Cobb County police said four people were hurt when a car slammed into an International House of Pancakes restaurant Tuesday.

Many flood victims, particularly in Cobb's hard hit southern cities, want the government to buy their damaged homes; however, officials say it could be two years before there's any money.

Those who attended District 4 County Commissioner Woody Thompson's town hall meeting Monday night echoed the same concerns that were expressed last week, when hundreds of angry residents swamped a county meeting on flood updates.

A 69-year-old Austell woman was killed Tuesday afternoon in a three-car accident in Virgina, according to police.

Many Cobb County homeowners say they'd like the county to buy their flood-damaged homes, but a county official says it's impossible to accommodate all of them.

Austell Mayor Joe Jerkins says the city council probably will consider proposals on Monday to clear remaining debris from floods that struck the city last month.

Vice President Joe Biden departs today on a three-day trip to central Europe that appears to be aimed at smoothing over relations with U.S. allies there worried by the Obama administration's decision to abandon plans for a missile defense system based in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Douglas County Sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man Monday they said tried to run them over his partner with a car, police said.

A Douglas County sheriff's deputy shot and killed a man who tried to hit him with his vehicle Monday afternoon, Sheriff Phil Miller said.

A large, angry crowd swarmed Cobb officials at a meeting Wednesday night that was conducted by the county to discuss rebuilding after last month's record flood.

One month after flooding devastated neighborhoods in metro Atlanta some flood victims are better off than others.

Austell Mayor Joe Jerkins said the city has cleaned up roughly 75 percent of the debris from homes and properties ravaged by record flooding one month ago.

The wife of the man shot and killed by a Douglas County deputy Monday is talking about her husband, Leonard Anderson, for the first time.

On Sunday, September 20th, a week's worth of rain turned into disastrous flooding overnight for many counties across Metro Atlanta.