Lithia Springs News

NEWARK - An 18-year-old man wanted in connection with a shooting last month in Newark was arrested at his uncle's home in Georgia last week, authorities said.

A husband and wife, working as a team, robbed numerous businesses at gunpoint in the metro Atlanta area until their crime spree ended after a high-speed chase.

A Fayetteville husband and wife will be serving a 20-year sentence after robbing numerous businesses at gun point around the metro Atlanta area, including a local business in 2007, according to Douglas County District Attorney David McDade.

Hours after the heavy rains stopped, flooding has become big concern in Lithia Springs.

It took just 50 minutes for a jury to return a guilty verdict against James Douglas Clark in the 2011 robbery of a local bank.

Convicted bank robber Coreena Gosine, left, answers questions from Douglas County Assistant District Attorney Steve Knittel in the armed robbery trial of her boyfriend James Clark, inset.

Two Atlanta men have been charged in connection to a high-speed chase on Interstate 20 that ended with a crash in Atlanta.

Douglas County government recently hired longtime employees as top supervisors in two high-profile departments.

Owen Jackson Long, 85 of Douglasville, passed away April 24. He was born April 7, 1928 in Lithia Springs the son of the late Robert Ervin Long and the late Onie Aderhold Long.

As part of that effort, Lithia Springs held an academic pep rally Thursday afternoon to celebrate all of the strides the school has made.

Douglasville, Lithia Springs and Villa Rica are three cities identified by one group as having a high-concentration of tax cheats.