Carroll County News

Budgeta s done, so what work lies ahead? With the 2009-2010 fiscal year budget set, members of the Carroll County Board of Commissioners are preparing to move forward with a number of projects over the next 12 months.

Growth slowed considerably in Carroll County in 2008, but all its cities included in the report released by the U.S. Census Bureau this week experienced a population increase, even if it was in the single digits.

Believe it or not, Georgia's billion-dollar tourism industry suffers when visitors see local roadsides littered with garbage, but the economic setbacks aren't the only reasons Bremen resident J.C. Carollo stepped up to re-establish a weekend volunteer clean-up group to preserve the beauty of his community.

The Haralson County Sheriffa s Office has closed June with numerous arrests. In one case, two brothers received assault charges in the beating of a man, who was also later shot after participating in an arm wrestling game with one of the brothers.

Troup and the other four counties in the Coweta Judicial Circuit plan to use a federal stimulus grant of $428,000 to expand drug courts into each county.

Billie Jane McIntosh's updated schedule calls for her to be in neighboring Carroll County on Monday and taking a trip to north Alabama on Tuesday.

Two Carrollton City Council members are criticizing the city for paying Rep. Tim Bearden for consulting work without a formal contract.

Carroll County jailers John Husby and Cpl. William Haney search Larry Hudson Jr.

In February1825, Chief William McIntosh signed the Treaty of Indian Springs which opened west Georgia -- including what is now Coweta County -- to settlement.

By Spencer Crawford The Villa Rican Preliminary work is being completed this week in anticipation of the demolition of a handful of buildings on the former Avanti property in downtown Villa Rica, paving the way for construction of a new park and municipal complex on the site.

Chet Long, left, receives a Purple Heart award from Police Chief Michael Mansour for being run over in the line of duty.

Less than two weeks after the shooting deaths of a Carroll County couple in their home, a grand jury has indicted the suspect on multiple counts of murder and armed robbery.

A Temple man died Tuesday night after a wrecker he was working on at his business rolled on top of him.

Creative Loafing has jumped into the fray. Turns out one of the things Bearden was helping Carrollton with was DFACS.

A Carroll County couple were found shot to death in their home, and investigators say the alleged shooter may be a relative.

A Georgia homeowner whose cherished family home was mistakenly demolished said he wants to know how a contracted demolition crew could make such an egregious error.

Cattle farmer George Chambers calls a herd of beef cattle toward him in a pasture on his family's land near Bowdon.

Carrollton- A man and woman were found dead inside their home on Peek Drive Wednesday night.

Let's be clear up front: A GPS is no home wrecker. That said, there's a stunning report this week that a house in Carroll County, Georgia, was demolished by a wrecking crew misguided by a GPS device, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution . In a report by WSBTV , homeowner Al Byrd relayed a conversation with the wrecking crew in which they ...

A Smyrna man is being held without bond after he allegedly confessed to a friend and sheriffa s deputies that he shot and killed a Carroll County couple in their home on Peek Drive Wednesday.