Carrollton News

A young Georgia woman battling a flesh-eating disease could hardly believe it when she was able to speak Sunday for the first time since she was taken to an Augusta hospital more than three weeks ago, her father said Monday.

Friends of Aimee Copeland, the young University of West Georgia student battling a flesh-eating disease in an Augusta hospital, have announced a Coweta County blood drive in her honor.

Six more candidates qualified Monday for the July 31 primary in Carroll County, bringing the list to 22.

A Georgia graduate student fighting a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection she contracted after being injured in a zip-line accident is now able to sit in a chair for hours at a time, her father said.

Paulding's representation in state government and U.S. Congress in 2013 could be decided as early as August depending on the last day and a half of qualifying for the July 31 primary.

A Carrollton laboratory has found that the Aeromonas hydrophila bacteria, the type that caused the flesh-eating bacterial illness in University of West Georgia graduate student Aimee Copeland, is present in normal levels in the Little Tallapoosa River.

Sixteen candidates, including incumbent Carroll County Board of Commissioners Chairman Bill Chappell, qualified on Wednesday to enter the July 31 general primary election.

Vaughn,A the owner of a landscaping company,A had skin grafts Tuesday to repair areas where his flesh was cut away after he fell ill in early May after getting a small cut on his leg.

A Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating bacterial infection was in critical condition at Augusta Hospital on Saturday, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Aimee Copeland, the University of West Georgia grad student who recently lost her leg to a brutal flesh-eating bacteria, has learned she'll also lose her remaining foot and both hands.

The 24-year-old woman battling a flesh-eating bacteria learned early Thursday that she faces more amputations.

The Carroll County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating a missing autistic man.

Union Elementary second-graders have Georgia pen pals Mrs. Dove's second grade class at Union Elementary School has enjoyed writing to newly found pen pals in Carrollton, Ga.

The State Patrol has charged a Woodland, Ala., man with second-degree vehicular homicide in the death of Heard County sheriff's deputy Will Cammon.

CARROLLTON, Ga. -- A phenomenal response for Aimee Copeland on Tuesday at her college in Carrollton resulted more than 200 people offering to donate blood.

Food Depot plans to open its second Carrollton supermarket, this one in the Maple Commons shopping center location vacated in January by Food Lion.

Workers test a new zip line course in South Carolina. The safety of the activity has come into focus after a Georgia woman was severely injured in a fall from a friend's homemade zip line.

A week ago, doctors gave her little chance of survival. Now a Georgia grad student who is battling a rare flesh-eating infection is alert and bored enough to ask for a book, her father told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

An environmental group says that running California's San Onofre nuclear plant at reduced power will not solve problems with badly worn tubing that have kept the twin reactors offline for months.

A blood drive to benefit Aimee Copeland, who remains in critical condition from complications of a zip line accident, will be held from 2 to 7 p.m. today on the University of West Georgia campus.