Rockdale County News

This week, Maureen Downey published "Rockdale student: Make students work for grades and limit reliance on technology" in her AJC Get Schooled blog.

Former State Senator Steen Miles telling forum participants not to vote for sales tax.

Authorities say a Georgia father is facing a reckless conduct charge after allowing his 9-year-old daughter to drive a car, which plowed through a house.

Elected officials in each of the 10 Atlanta-area counties will be holding free "wireside chats" in June to answer citizens' questions on the upcoming T-SPLOST vote, according to a news release.

With only Dr. Stephen Tonelson voting "nay," the Norfolk School Board approved the hiring of Dr.

Northeast Cobb Commissioner JoAnn Birrell's town-hall meeting turned into an impromptu anti-TSPLOST rally during the question-and-answer session Wednesday evening.

An 18-year-old McDonough motorist has been charged in a hit-and-run accident that seriously injured a woman jogging along a Henry County road earlier this month, authorities said Wednesday.

Thankfully those were the words uttered on Tuesday, May 8, when the AT&T Special Operations Team conducted a drill in Conyers that simulated the effects of a chemical fire.

The Georgia Legislature, sponsors of the Transportation Investment Act of 2010, should've known that voters will not tax themselves to build faraway projects they personally despise.

An Athens drug dealer faces possible federal charges after local police and state probation officers searched his apartment Thursday and found marijuana, a semiautomatic shotgun, a rifle and a handgun with the serial number filed off, Athens-Clarke police said.

One of the suspects in the burned body case of Martin Mendez Villa-Gomez, an Auburn resident -- entered a guilty plea in Dekalb County courts.

Warrants were secured Tuesday for two men charged with burglaries throughout Kennesaw.

When people ask where I'm from, I lead with, "Conyers," hoping they may recognize the name from a sign they pass by on I-20 You see, my county gained some notoriety in the late 90's with the release of a PBS Frontline documentary, "The Lost Children of Rockdale County." This national broadcast outlined a syphilis outbreak in which more than 200 ... (more)

Kathern Laura Green, a language arts teacher at Newton County High School, was charged April 21 with DUI, possession of cocaine, failure to maintain lane and open container, according to Rockdale County jail records.