Austell News

The results are in, and South Cobb incumbents have decided to run again for their seats, but the races are hardly uncontested.

A jury in Hall County found Lynitra Ross of Austell guilty of malice murder of a Snellville man in 2010.

Unemployment in Cobb County held steady at 8 percent in April. The county's unemployment rate remains lower than that of metro Atlanta and the state, but higher than the nation.

Citing a new wrinkle in Local Option Sales Tax renegotiation laws, Villa Rica officials have thrown a wrench into plans for a formal agreement on local sales tax distribution for the next decade.

Troup County Sheriff's Deputies made two arrests for suspected drug possession at a traffic stop on Fuller Road Tuesday.

A Hall County jury found an Austell woman accused of being the go-between in a murder-for-hire plot guilty in the 2010 Valentine's day slaying of Richard Schoeck.

Caterpillar has hired Plateau Excavation of Austell to excavate and grade the property near Athens, GA, for its 1 million-square-foot manufacturing plant.

Ross, of Austell, faces charges of malice murder for what prosecutors say was her role in the death of Richard Schoeck in 2010.

No one was injured in a Saturday fire that completely consumed an Austell home. When Austell firefighters arrived to the home of 1314 Cochise Drive in Austell on Saturday afternoon, the fire had grown so large, they requested additional support from the Cobb Fire Department.

Cobb Executive Profile In 1973, Georgia Tech graduate Alex Gregory was nearing the end of a three-year stint with the Navy when a friend called to say a Japanese company was looking for a textile engineer for its future zipper plant in Macon.

The lead investigator in the trial over a 2010 Hall County slaying testified Friday about links between the Snellville woman who conspired to kill her husband and the woman accused of helping arrange the hired killing.

Twenty-one-year-old Jesus Cruz acknowledges he is in the country illegally. He says his mother brought him to the United States when he was twelve.

A 19-year-old was convicted and sentenced to life plus five years' probation Thursday for his role in the fatal shooting of a cab driver in 2009, the Fulton County District Attorney's Office announced.

Several people were hurt in a series of accidents that brought highway traffic to a standstill Downtown Thursday morning.

On May 4, the Grand Jury of Haralson County Superior Court indicted Thomas Andrew Woods for kidnapping, cruelty to children and false imprisonment, all felonies, in addition to driving without a license, driving on a suspended license and possession of marijuana.

When Hall County investigators were looking into Richard Schoeck's death, they subpoenaed records from all calls placed in the vicinity of a cellphone tower near Ga.

For the first time in his 23 years in office, Austell Mayor Joe Jerkins said he will support a tax increase.

A Douglasville man died in a Mableton vehicle crash on Wednesday morning as he was driving his motorcycle eastbound on Veterans Memorial Highway.

As a result of an ongoing investigation, Cobb police recently determined a fatal crash was not caused by the victim crossing the center line as originally thought.

Rodney Williams, a defense attorney for Lynitra Ross, makes his opening statements to the jury today at the Hall County Superior Court in Gainesville.