Cobb News

Tuesday night's town-hall meeting organized by State House candidate JoEllen Smith about the proposed TSPLOST has been cancelled.A Smith told Patch she was calling off her event because of a Cobb candidates debate and forum tonight in Marietta.A That forum, organized by the Cobb NAACP , starts at 7 p.m. at the Cobb government building on 100 ... (more)

A 16-year-old girl was critically injured Monday night when she and a friend were hit by a car while trying to cross a busy east Cobb County road.

THREE OF THE FOUR Cobb school board members up for re-election this year chose to run again, and in what many will read as a sign of continued public disgruntlement at how the county schools are run, all three incumbents picked up multiple opponents.

Cobb residents and leaders will get their first look tonight at the future of mass transit in the county.

Lance Lamberton, founder of the Cobb County Taxpayers Association, recently answered some questions, by email, about the July 31 transportation tax referendum.

A historical marker on County Services Parkway stands as a reminder of how the 1828 discovery of gold in Georgia affected Cobb County.

According to the Georgia Department of Human Services, the number of children in foster care has declined over the past few years in Cobb County.

Throughout Cobb County, anxious, high school seniors entered graduation ceremonies on Saturday to the tune of "Pomp and Circumstance," and exited as alumni, embarking on new paths in their young lives.

A newly appointed board is developing a four-year plan for breathing new life into three parts of south Cobb County.

So far, four people who attended McEachern High's graduation ceremony this morning have been taken to Cobb Hospital for heat-related problems.

The remains found in the Kennesaw area Wednesday morning are those of a Calhoun man missing since August 2009, Cobb County police said Friday.

Cobb police are offering a $2,000 to anyone who has information that can help them capture the man now being called the Lollipop Bandit.

Cobb natives Reed Foust and Wes Walker are hoping that a series of concerts will help revitalize the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre.

The Captain John Collins Chapter Sons of the American Revolution honored Cobb police Detective J. W. Freidlander on Monday at the department's Precinct 5 on Dallas Highway.

Teach for America stirs up skepticism and "disgust" for teacher advocates, Cobb Board of Education members and even parents from other parts of Cobb, but for many South Cobb parents, it signals hope and change for achievement-challenged schools.

Cobb firefighters responded to a fire at Alpha Group GYN in the Governor's Ridge office park off Powers Ferry Road in Marietta Wednesday morning.

Cobb County police are conducting a death investigation regarding skeletal remains that were discovered at about 10 a.m. Wednesday along Interstate 75 near Shiloh Road in Kennesaw.

Foes of the immigration issue squared off moments after the Cobb Board of Commissioners approved an immigration employment agreement with a federal agency Tuesday evening.

Members of the Huguenot Society of Georgia donated five books to the Cobb County Public Central Library in Marietta Tuesday morning.

Cobb Department of Transportation Director Faye DiMassimo discusses the features of the Cobb Community Transit's new $10 million Mobility Center, which had its groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday.