“I’m a doggy in need of a permanent loving home!”
The Cobb County Courier’s Dog of the Day, selected from the Cobb Animal Services Shelter website, is a male tan labradoodle. The following information on this potential family member is copied and pasted from the Animal Shelters website. To see the original text visit this link to the Animal Shelter Catalog.
Serial rapist targeted women who were homeless, DA says
The Fulton County District Attorney, announced Tuesday a serial rapist has been convicted.
Man accused of furnishing Marietta teen with obscene materials
Joshua Paul Aguon, 21, of Panama City, Florida, is accused of sexual exploitation of a child and furnishing obscene materials electronically to a 16-year-old on multiple dates at a Marietta residence, according to an arrest warrant from the Cobb County Police Department. Aguon possessed multiple images of the girl...
Derwin Brown assassination 25 years later: Former Channel 2 reporter was on same hit...
Monday marked 25 years since the assassination of DeKalb County Sheriff-Elect Derwin Brown, a murder that shocked Georgia and the nation days before Christmas.
Board suspends scheduled execution of Cobb County death row prisoner
Wednesday's scheduled execution of a Cobb death row inmate has been suspended as the State Board of Pardons and Paroles considers a clemency application.
DeKalb County commissioners to consider extending data center moratorium
The moratorium has been in place since July and has already been extended once.
See Something Say Something Stops Mail Theft in Duluth
A Duluth resident’s decision to report suspicious activity led police to arrest a suspect accused of stealing mail and possessing items used in identity theft. What’s Happening: The Duluth Police Department says a resident spotted someone loading trash bags into a car near an apartment complex mail center last week....
Woman lost $35K to scammers pretending to be Suwanee officers
Suwanee Police are investigating a recent scam where the suspects impersonated members of law enforcement and a resident lost more than $25,000.
Mistrial declared for 3 charged in 16-year-old’s shooting death at graduation party
A Fulton County judge declared a mistrial for three men charged in the murder of 16-year-old Bre’asia Powell . Powell was shot and killed on May 28, 2023 in the driveway of Benjamin E. Mays High School, where nearly 100 people had gathered for a graduation party. The trial for three of the suspects, Jaquan Winters,...
Kennesaw man charged in alleged Home Depot shoplifting spree
Flentrus Lee Murdock, 38, of Kennesaw, is accused of shoplifting thousands of dollars worth of merchandise on several occasions from the Home Depot at 2350 Dallas Highway in Marietta, according to an arrest warrant from the Cobb County Police Department. According to his warrant, on Oct. 15 at 8:31 a.m., Murdock...
