Messiah Harris

Marietta police SUV parked at the curb on Marietta Square

Crime & Public Safety August 13, 2026

Family of Messiah Harris Seeks Answers in Marietta Death

By Mark Woolsey [The Cobb County Courier has a policy of withholding or redacting the name of suspects unless and until the person is convicted in a court of law…

Crime & Public Safety August 13, 2026

How American society shields perpetrators of child sexual abuse

by Sarah K Lischer, Wake Forest University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Widespread denial accompanied the public exposure of Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse and…

Civic Engagement August 13, 2026

The false and the furious: We aren’t just bothered by different beliefs – we’re bothered when we think others are wrong

by Andras Molnar, University of Michigan and George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Why do disagreements about vaccines, climate change or…

Environment August 13, 2026

Controlling wild pigs can work if it’s a group effort

by Chris Boyer, University of Tennessee; Aaron Smith, University of Tennessee, and Eunchun Park, University of Arkansas, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The federal government…

Crime & Public Safety August 13, 2026

Family of Messiah Harris Seeks Answers in Marietta Death

By Mark Woolsey [The Cobb County Courier has a policy of withholding or redacting the name of suspects unless and until the person is convicted in a court of law…

Demographics August 13, 2026

Cobb County Population Nears 800,000 as Growth Slows

By Mark Woolsey Cobb County is still growing, but a number of its neighboring metro counties are outpacing it. Numbers released by the Atlanta Regional Commission this week showed that…