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The second round of the Georgia High School Association soccer playoffs continues on Thursday, with Classes 2A, 4A, and 6A taking center stage. Below is Thursday's girls' soccer schedule. GIRLS PREP SOCCER 2nd ROUND SCHEDULE, Thursday, April 30. Class 6A. Parkview (R7, S4) at Buford (R8, S2), 6 p.m. Class...

Kimberly Strickland, a senior at Sequoyah High School, recently earned the $5,000 Waste Management/Pine Bluff Landfill Scholarship. The scholarship is presented to a graduating senior each year as part of the company’s partnership with the Cherokee County School District. The designated school rotates annually, with Sequoyah High School selected for the class of 2026, and all graduating seniors from the designated school may...

The Georgia Department of Public Health conducted food service inspections in Cherokee County on 04/29/2026. The following 4 establishments were inspected. 🔴 Grade U (Failing) = below 70 | 🟠 Grade C = 70–79 | 🟡 Grade B = 80–89 | 🟢 Grade A = 90–100 🟡 Grade B (80–89) — 1 location AVATAR INDIAN CUISINE — 🟡 84 (Grade B)• Inspected: 04-29-2026 • 1750 MARIETTA HWY STE 210 CANTON, GA 30114...

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — An international fugitive wanted for homicide in Brazil has been arrested in Sandy Springs through a joint effort between local police and federal immigration authorities, officials said. Job Da Luz De Freitas-Junior, a Brazilian national, was taken into custody on Friday, April 30th, by U.S....

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A Woodstock man who was convicted of grooming and sexually abusing several girls will spend the rest of his life behind bars. On Tuesday, 47-year-old Nicholas Wrightsman was sentenced to life, plus 60 years. A Cherokee County jury found him guilty of one count of aggravated child molestation, one count of aggravated sexual battery and nine counts...

The caller who made a hoax 911 call, threatening to harm himself and shoot police, did so because he was “mad” at a Marietta resident. The Marietta Police Department is investigating the phony call after officers were dispatched to a home on Walnut Path, off Whitlock Drive, for a caller making threats of suicide at 10:25 p.m. Sunday, according to Officer Chuck McPhilamy...

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The Suwanee pastors say their faith is keeping them going after the devastating lightning strike that destroyed their home.

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — The state’s annual burn ban for 54 North Georgia counties starts May 1, adding to the 91 counties in South and Central Georgia under a 30-day ban to prevent wildfires. State law prohibits the open burning of yard and land-clearing debris in Metro Atlanta...

A Marietta man is accused of pulling a false fire alarm, flooding an apartment building and waving a handgun as residents evacuated. Richard Allen Warren, 35, of Marietta, is accused of breaking the sprinkler on the fourth floor of his apartment building and pulling the fire alarm on April 25 at 11:40 p.m. at 1960 Spectrum Circle in Marietta, in the Ilion Apartments...