Cobb courthouse construction continues

On the afternoon of April 12, 1862, a group of union spies desperately drove a stolen locomotive northward.

Cemeteries are nearly everywhere we look. Some are famous and popular visitor destinations, while others are more obscure and hidden in plain sight.

ATLANTA – The Georgia House of Representatives last week passed a measure aimed at decreasing the sales of so-called “black market” cigarettes and cigars in Georgia. HB 1071, sponsored by state Rep. Penny Houston, R-Nashville, eliminates the lifetime license for retail sales of tobacco. Instead, the measure would, if signed into law, create a one-year license for tobacco merchants. The measure, which is now in the state Senate, would set penalties for tobacco illegally brought