Marietta GA

MARIETTA — The Marietta City Council has approved a plan to spend $965,000 supporting parks and tourism projects and an installation in remembrance of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The money comes from leftover funds from the city’s 3% vehicle rental tax. Funds from the tax can only be used for tourism,...

The Cobb County Courier’s Cat of the Day, selected from the Cobb Animal Services Shelter website, is a male black domestic short hair. 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.

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Governor Brian Kemp's office announced on Wednesday that healthcare technology company Glytec, which specializes in diabetes and insulin management, would relocate its headquarters to Cobb County. The new HQ for the company will be at 2300 Windy Ridge Parkway, a release from the Governor's Office...

SMYRNA — Second graders at Russell Elementary School got a chance to leave their mark on the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office Tuesday, helping officially name the office’s new community mascot during a lively event. The mascot was unveiled after students submitted and voted on name ideas. After narrowing the choices down...

A Douglas County family says their 83-year-old father, who had dementia, vanished for more than 30 hours and came back to his assisted-living unit in Carrollton behind the wheel of a brand-new Jeep. By the time anyone figured out what happened, they say, he had signed onto a nearly $70,000 SUV and a loan with monthly...

Police say they were called to the restaurant located at 875 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

A Marietta man is facing charges of killing a local woman after shooting her multiple times, according to court documents. The suspect, Ferman Salguero Corado, is accused of shooting 24-year-old Favia Gricelda Naely Vicente Velasquez, of Marietta, in the head and chest at a home along Waldrep Circle in Marietta, just...

Three teenagers have been charged with a variety of offenses for vandalizing property at a park in East Cobb. According to arrest warrants, they were part of a group of several teens that damaged a bathroom and performed doughnuts in the parking lot of Harrison Park (2653 Shallowford Road) on March 1.

Police say a man trapped a 14-year-old girl in a Cobb County hotel room after meeting her on an app meant for teenagers.

ATLANTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - A former investment advisor pleaded guilty to defrauding an elderly client out of nearly $10 million, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia said. Eijroghene Okuma, 43, began defrauding the client after he was appointed executor of the estate of the victim’s sister in...