Crime & Public Safety

Marietta June 26, 2025

Reward offered in Marietta car dealership arson fires

By Mark Woolsey The Georgia Arson Control Board is offering an up to $10,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of a man sought in two Monday night arson cases…

Cobb County Police Department Crime Scene Unit vehicle

Crime & Public Safety June 24, 2025

One dead, one injured in off-campus student apartment complex

By Mark Woolsey A Sunday night shooting at a Kennesaw-area apartment complex left one person dead and another injured. Cobb County Police say officers were called to the Bixby Apartments,…

Marietta police SUV parked at the curb on Marietta Square

Marietta June 24, 2025

Marietta police link two separate gang-related shootings to same suspect

Marietta police say they’ve established a link between two April shooting cases and say both are gang-related. Authorities say the first occurred April 19 on Natchez Trace near Powder Springs…

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Crime & Public Safety June 23, 2025

The term ‘lone gunman’ ignores the structures that enable violence

by Art Jipson, University of Dayton, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] When shots rang out in Minnesota, targeting state Democratic politicians, the headlines quickly followed…

Crime & Public Safety June 19, 2025

Violent extremists like the Minnesota shooter are not lone wolves

by Alex Hinton, Rutgers University – Newark, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] After a two-day manhunt, Minnesota authorities arrested and charged 57-year-old Vance Boelter on…

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Crime & Public Safety June 11, 2025

Both people indentified in suspected murder/suicide

By Mark Woolsey Cobb County Police have now identified both the victim and the alleged perpetrator of a weekend murder-suicide. Authorities were called to 1158 Research Drive in Northeast Cobb…

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Crime & Public Safety June 6, 2025

How illicit markets fueled by data breaches sell your personal information to criminals

by Thomas Holt, Michigan State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Every year, massive data breaches harm the public. The targets are email service providers,…

Acworth June 5, 2025

Acworth choking victim saved by officer’s fast action

By Mark Woolsey An Acworth police officer’s swift action saved the life of a choking victim on Wednesday, police spokesman Sgt. Eric Mistretta told the Courier. Police said in a…

Detail of Cobb County Police Department STEP Unit vehicle in article about fatal accident on I-75

Traffic incidents May 28, 2025

UPDATE: Kool and the Gang’s Michael “Chicago Mike” Sumler dies in collision on Veterans Memorial Highway at Buckner Road

As stated below, our usual policy is not to print the names of people involved in traffic accidents while the accidents are investigated, but it came to our attention that…

Crime & Public Safety May 27, 2025

Hit and run on I-285 results in one driver seriously injured

Officer Aaron Wilson of the Cobb County Police Department announced in a public information release that the department’s STEP Unit is investigating a serious injury hit-and-run collision that occurred on…

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Cobb County September 18, 2025

LiveSafe Resources Hosts ‘A Fashion Affair’ Fundraiser Supporting Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence

Photo: Cobb County Solicitor General Makia Metzer, provided courtesy of LiveSafe Resources LiveSafe Resources submitted the following article about its benefit fashion show: LiveSafe Resources hosted one of Atlanta’s premier fashion events, A Fashion Affair, on Tuesday evening…

Mableton September 18, 2025

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