Villa Rica News

Friday marked the one-month anniversary of Aimee Copeland's zip line accident, which started her battle with a flesh eating bacteria that nearly claimed her life.

A family has returned to Liberty Rd., in Villa Rica, after being on vacation to find their home in ruins, burned to the ground.

A Winder man is on a mission to thank two people who save his life when they pulled him from the waters of Lake Hartwell.

Some Decatur residents are upset over increased property assessments that will likely lead to higher taxes.

Dr. Bernice Brooks has some unfinished business with the Carroll County School System, and she's looking for another chance to finish it.

Work on the new emergency department and expanded surgical services unit at Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton is now more than three-fourths complete, and the hospital expects to put the new facilities in service this summer.

Don't be surprised to hear a few outbursts of "Bingo!" and "Whoopee!" on a Wednesday morning at the McDonald's on Austell Road.

John Hannabach poses for a photograph in the office of his Villa Rica home. Hannabach served in the Navy in the Korean war.

John Hannabach poses for a photograph in the office of his Villa Rica home. Hannabach served in the Navy in the Korean war.

The U.S. Department of Justice has granted pre-clearance for Temple to hold a referendum during the July 31 primary to decide the issue of Sunday beer and wine sales.

Citing a new wrinkle in Local Option Sales Tax renegotiation laws, Villa Rica officials have thrown a wrench into plans for a formal agreement on local sales tax distribution for the next decade.

The end of the last day of school at Villa Rica High Wednesday was anything but ordinary.

While Douglasville and Douglas County officials are not commenting on a tentative Local Option Sales Tax agreement that both acknowledge has been reached, one group that appears to get the short end of the stick is speaking out.

One day after Villa Rica's Ashley Grizzle pleaded with the Douglas County Board of Commissioners to leave a damaged bridge near her home on West Tyson Road out of service, the BOC voted to put the matter up for a public hearing.

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

Businesses will have one more reason to enter Douglas County under a new designation by the state Department of Community Affairs .

A wreath was laid Monday morning at the site of the former Villa Rica bus station where a group of Freedom Riders had a brief, relatively uneventful stop in 1961 on their way toward a more violent ride the farther they journeyed into the South in the name of civil rights.

Forty participants of the Youth Against Violence program will graduate today at the Public Safety and Municipal Court Building in Douglasville, marking the fifth anniversary of an initiative that seeks to empower kids to do positive things in the community.

A teen who prosecutors say played a role in furnishing alcohol to minors the evening of a DUI wreck that killed a Villa Rica teen will serve 12 years on probation after pleading guilty.

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