Stockbridge News

An overnight fire Friday morning at a Stockbridge self-storage facility destroyed or damaged 200 of 400 units, including one holding GWTW memorabilia worth an estimated $200,000. Artifacts kept there included large wooden posterboards depicting scenes from the movie that swept the 1939 Academy Awards, GWTW ads from such places as Italy and Russia ... (more)

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The fire broke out at about 11 p.m. at the U-Haul Self Storage facility on Hudson Bridge Road, according to Henry County Fire Capt.

Valentine's Day, the holiday known for celebrating Cupid's arrow slinging through the hearts of romantics everywhere, has a different meaning for each person.

On the night before her 15th birthday, Anastasia Hill sneaked out of her bedroom in Ellenwood, MP3 player in hand, never to be seen by her family again.

STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. -- Investigators have confirmed what a Henry County mother has feared for over a year now that skeletal remains have been positively identified as her 14-year-old child.

Authorities in Henry County say an autopsy has confirmed that human remains discovered last year belong to a teenage girl who was reported missing nearly two years ago.

George Raburn, vice president of the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors - National Association, passed away on Saturday, March 20, after a recurrence of cancer.

The state of American men's and women's professional tennis may be in shambles right now with no U.S. player making it past the Round of 16 this year at the Aussie Open, but don't tell that to Stockbridge, Ga., teen Taylor Townsend, 15, who not only won the junior title Saturday Down Under, she may have single-handedly given hope to the future of ... (more)

The FDIC took three community banks into receivership on Friday, giving them the distinction of being the first three banks to fail in the new year.

The government ended its safety investigation into the Chevrolet Volt on Friday after concluding that the Volt and other electric cars don't pose a greater fire risk than gasoline-powered cars.

First State Bank's seven branches will open on Saturday as branches of Braselton-based Hamilton State Bank, after the FDIC entered a "purchase and assumption agreement" with Hamilton State.

The locations of First State Bank will reopen during their normal business hours as branches of Hamilton State Bank.