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Fort Oglethorpe police have received complaints in the past two days of suspicious people dressed as clowns frightening area residents.

Georgia Northwestern Technical College completed a huge milestone Monday, Sept. 19, when school administrators and government officials celebrated the opening of the new Catoosa County Campus in Ringgold.

On Thursday Sept. 15, 2016, Cherokee County Investigator Brent Snead, with the assistance of Etowah County investigators made an arrest in connection with a burglary in the Pollards Bend area on County Road 5.

Dekalb County Sheriff Jimmy Harris announces that charges for Christopher Jack Lowrey, 46, of Crossville, who was arrested for destruction/desecration of his late wife’s gravestone Sept. 12, have been upgraded. Lowrey’s charges have been upgraded to a felony because of the amount of damage done to the gravestone which will need to be replaced.

Officials are trying to determine if Tuesday’s mobile home fire in Chickamauga in which a 6-year-old and a baby died may have ignited from a lit candle.

CHICKAMAUGA — Two girls died in a mobile home fire in Chickamauga early Tuesday morning.

Mary Bowman was the first person on the scene of a deadly fire in Chickamauga early Tuesday morning that left two young girls dead.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A second attempt at jury selection in the trial of a metro Atlanta man charged with killing his toddler son began Monday, at a new courthouse 275 miles from the suburban parking lot where the child died in the back seat of a hot SUV.

Agents were able to disrupt a major methamphetamine operation in Dekalb County recently following a routine traffic stop.

Two masked men broke into a LaFayette convenience store early Friday morning and left with $2,500 in cash.

Police are seeking assistance in capturing a man who robbed the SunTrust Bank in Cartersville this morning and fled on foot.

Local law enforcement agents arrested two residents of the Blanche community on drug charges following execution of a search warrant Tuesday, Sept. 8.

CARROLLTON, Ga. (AP) — A fire official says three people are dead following a plane crash near a small airport in western Georgia.

Dekalb and Jackson County law enforcement agents recently arreste a Henager man wanted on felony warrants who has been on the run for several months.

Decatur, GA – Within the past week, the GBI Crime Lab’s drug identification unit received three cases from separate seizures of the synthetic opioid carfentanil. 

ELMORE, Ala. - The Alabama Department of Corrections is investigating a fatal stabbing of an inmate that occurred at the Elmore Correctional Facility on Tuesday. The stabbing happened at approximately 4:30 p.m. during an altercation between two inmates.

Agents with the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force worked around the clock to dismantle a drug trafficking organization operating in Chattooga, Walker, and Catoosa counties.

Dekalb County law enforcement agents recently arrested an Ider man for manufacturing explosives.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal grand jury has  indicted a Rome man in connection with a counterfeit check and stolen identity scheme in north Alabama, according to a news release from the Department of Justice.

Emerson police officers were trying to determine Monday which vehicle started a 29-car pile-up on Interstate 75.

Cherokee County Sheriff’s deputies made two arrests in connection to a stolen ATV Monday morning, Aug. 22.

All victims from yesterday’s multi-motor vehicle collision on Interstate 75 were treated and released last night from the emergency department at Cartersville Medical Center, said Ginger G. Tyra the director of marketing and public relations at Cartersville Medical Center.

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Jurors in the trial of a Georgia man accused of intentionally leaving his toddler son in a hot SUV to die will be allowed to see the Hyundai Tucson during the trial, a judge ruled Friday.