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The Baxley City Council approved the recommended low bids for two police patrol vehicles for the Baxley Police Department during the regular council meeting on Oct.

Unofficial results are in for Dallas and Hiram City Council seats. However, there is the possibility of a runoff in the Hiram Post 3 race according to representatives at the Paulding County Board of Registrars.

The investigation into an iron worker's strangling death is moving "extremely slowly," Atlanta police Detective A.C. Smith said Wednesday.

The Georgia Forestry Commission has embarked on a reforestation project made possible by funding from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act .

Two Morehead churches teamed up with Samaritans Purse to help with flooding relief in the south.

At its meeting on Tuesday evening, the council heard from citizen Clayton Penhallegon, who presented the council with three requests.

Paulding County police are investigating a shooting that injured one person Wednesday night.

The Bainbridge City Council has voted to replace much of the fleet of vehicles operated by the citya s Public Safety Division, although there was some discussion on the vehiclesa models.

For the second year in a row, the Dalton High School Marching Band took third place in a regional competition.

Georgia's tax department was forced to pay more than $2 million in interest to some 278,000 taxpayers whose refunds were not issued within 90 days of the April 15 filing deadline.

The medical examiner released the name of a man found strangled in a Jeep over the weekend.

Felony Arrests The people listed below, whose names and charges are public record, are taken from Cobb arrest warrants for September.

"The state of the city is good; we finished the year in the black and with revenue for a rainy day fund," Dallas Mayor Boyd Austin announced the Oct.

Windsong Properties , Atlanta's premier active adult courtyard home builder, recently held their Third Annual "Courtyard Crawl" at The Villas of Blackberry Run in Dallas, Ga.

Morning church services took on new meaning in Cobb County Sunday. Volunteers from local churches and some from other states showed up to help hundreds of families affected by last week's flood as the sun finally showed up to begin drying things out.

A: According to the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, Faith in Action is taking items such as washers, dryers, refrigerators, sofas, dressers, microwaves, TVs, kitchen tables and chairs, mattresses and box springs that are gently used and in good working order.

Flash Flood Warning for: Cobb County until 9:30 pm. At 3:40 pm, National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a line of thunderstorms with heavy rain from near Canton through Dallas and Franklin into east central Alabama.

Tara Vanaman loads a basket full of items for new mothers that will be given away at the upcoming walk.

Benefit Singing for Donald Brown at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church 3022 Mt. Olivet Road Dallas, GA Singers will be: The Evans Family The Cateel's New Wind and Others Donny is 59 and is in need of a Liver Transplant.

Commuters who live west of the city are having trouble getting home tonight now that state officials closed several bridges over the Chattahoochee River.