Carroll County News

A Carroll County church wants Georgia schools to stop teaching evolution as fact.

With only two months remaining until the July 31 vote on a 1-cent transportation tax, the proposal seems to be generating little public interest in Carroll County.

Dennis Blackmon, judge of the Coweta Judicial Circuit Superior Court, has been nominated for consideration as a replacement on the Georgia Supreme Court for Justice George H. Carley, who is retiring, effective July 17.

A new joint effort between Carrollton City Schools and Carroll County Schools aimed at lowering drop-out rates will have a veteran of the juvenile justice system as its executive director.

A grand jury has indicted a former Douglas County Sheriff's Office employee who has been implicated in the 2009 death of a Carroll County man while he was an inmate at the Douglas jail.

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.

Six more candidates qualified Monday for the July 31 primary in Carroll County, bringing the list to 22.

Sixteen candidates, including incumbent Carroll County Board of Commissioners Chairman Bill Chappell, qualified on Wednesday to enter the July 31 general primary election.

The first public draft of Georgia's new science standards were made available for public comment last week, and one Carroll County church disapproves of some of its content.

The Heard County Chapter 2587 of the Daughters of the Confederacy installed new officers for the 2012-2014 term on Wednesday May 16th.

About a year ago, Denise Askin-Pate found herself in what she calls a "unique situation." When Mike Huckeba's District 4 seat on the Carroll County Board of Education became available after Mike Huckeba's resigning, she applied because she wanted to make a difference.

A proposal to use prison inmates as firefighters in Carroll County has been junked, according to Board of Commissioners Chairman Bill Chappell.

One thing Carroll County's valedictorians and salutatorians have in common is that they didn't see this honor coming when they started high school.

The Carroll County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating a missing autistic man.

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.

A zip line operation in Carroll County says Aimee Copeland's accident has scared away many thrill seekers.

Driving on the expressways is stressful enough, but authorities say a weekend exchange on I-20 between two drivers escalated past stress to criminal.

The Carroll County Board of Education moved forward with a tentative FY2013 budget in their work session Monday.

More than 400 graduates of Georgia's largest technical college were honored in a ceremony at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre on Thursday.

A Carrollton businessman has announced his candidacy for Carroll County commission chairman, saying he wants to bring a "new level of energy" and unity to the board of commissioners.