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News Articles: Cobb County

A protester is removed before a electronic non-leathal device was used as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga.

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3 people arrested at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall in Cobb County

Shouting and boos began minutes into the event in Acworth, Ga., about 35 miles northwest of Atlanta.

April 16, 2025
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  • Sarah Kallis
A woman holds up her sticker that signifies that she has officially voted in the state of Georgia, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, in Atlanta.

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Cobb voters who received late absentee ballots must return them on Election Day, high court says

Georgia's highest court has stayed a lower court ruling that would have allowed certain voters in the state's third-largest county who received their absentee ballots late to return them after the deadline. That means the affected Cobb County residents must vote in person on Election Day, which is Tuesday, or get their absentee ballots to the county elections office by 7 p.m. that day

November 05, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Michael Stipe (center) performs with David Barbe (left) and Andy LeMaster perform at a rally for U.S. vice presidential candidate, Governor Time Walz of Minnesota, at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta on Nov. 3, 2024.

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Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff rally for Harris in Cobb County with Michael Stipe and Jon Bon Jovi

The Minnesota governor and second gentleman bonded with their favorite rock stars and reinforced Vice President Kamala Harris' closing message at this mini-concert at the Cobb Galleria on Sunday afternoon, with less than 48 hours to go before Election Day.

November 04, 2024
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  • Kristi York Wooten

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Rising cases of diabetes in Georgia are linked to obesity, public health policy

Around 1 million people in the state have Type 2 Diabetes — and close to a quarter million more likely have it and don’t know, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health.

October 31, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient

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Public health officials return to Walton High School to read TB test results

About 300 students at Walton High School in Cobb County who may have been exposed to tuberculosis (TB) underwent skin tests on Tuesday.

October 30, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Lt. Shaun Gorski with the Cobb County Sheriff's Department, speaks during an election security training session at Cobb County Emergency Management headquarters, Aug. 23, 2024, in Marietta, Ga.

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Election officials prepare for threats with panic buttons, bulletproof glass

Across the country, local election directors are beefing up their security in advance of Election Day. Bulletproof glass and drug-sniffing dogs in election offices, and panic buttons and security officers for polling places are some of the steps they are taking.

September 17, 2024
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  • Associated Press

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GPB evening headlines for August 16, 2024

Cobb County Schools bans 13 more books from its libraries. 

Mpox is detected in a Georgia Prison.

Usher, citing neck injury, reschedules Atlanta shows for December.

August 16, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
Signs to guide voters are posted outside a Cobb County polling station on the first day of early voting, in Marietta, Ga., Oct. 17, 2022.

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Big Georgia county to start charging some costs to people who challenge the eligibility of voters

An election board in one of Georgia's largest counties has voted to start charging people who challenge the eligibility of voters for the cost of notifying the challenged voters. The Cobb County Board of Elections and Registrations voted 4-1 Tuesday to adopt the rule.

August 15, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Georgia Secretary of State's Office technician Chris Bellew runs a test on Bibb County elections systems while Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger talks to a reporter Tuesday.

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Bibb County and others get a clean bill of voting machine health from the state

Ahead of the November election, the Georgia office of the secretary of state is making surprise spot checks of county boards of elections to ensure voting machines are working fairly and accurately.

July 30, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
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Opioid settlement from Kroger is set to bring millions to Georgia. But like others, it'll take time

Some Georgia counties are being invited to get their share of Kroger’s $1.2 billion, multi-district settlement over the franchises participation in the opioid addiction crisis.

July 23, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
Douglas G. Frank speaks to a group of people about the Georgia election process as data is projected onto his body, Sunday, March 24, 2024, in Rome, Ga. Frank is among those urging people to file voter challenges using a software tool called EagleAI to get potentially ineligible voters removed from the registration rolls.

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In Georgia, conservatives seek to have voters removed from rolls without official challenges

Conservative activists in Georgia and other states are using a new software tool as part of a broader effort to scrub voters from the rolls. As part of this initiative, they're asking election administrators to use their data to purge voter registrations, which means names could be removed in a less public process than a formal voter challenge.

July 01, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Cobb County Community Members posed for pictures in front of the bench honoring the legacy of historic African American author, Toni Morrison, and a former enslaved family of a mother and three children. (Friends of the Concord Bridge)

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Juneteenth bench project honors author Toni Morrison and a formerly enslaved Cobb County family

On Tuesday, June 18, 2024, in honor of Juneteenth, the Friends of the Concord Bridge, Cobb Parks and the Toni Morrison Society hosted a gathering for the 34th installation of the "Bench by the Road" project at the Silver Comet Trail in Mableton, Ga., honoring the late author Toni Morrison and a formerly enslaved family in Cobb County.

June 19, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
Gabriel Sanchez, right, seeks signatures trying to force a referendum to decide the fate of a proposed police and firefighter training center on Thursday, July 20, 2023, in Atlanta. Sanchez won a Democratic state House primary on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, beating incumbent Teri Anulewicz.

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2 Georgia state House incumbents lose to challengers in primaries

Two Georgia state House incumbents have lost to challengers in party primaries this week. Republican Lauren Daniel lost a rematch of her 2022 primary to Noelle Kahaian on Tuesday in suburban Henry County, while Democrat Teri Anulewicz lost to Gabriel Sanchez in suburban Cobb County.

May 23, 2024
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Student fatally shot, suspect detained at Georgia's Kennesaw State University

Officials at Georgia's Kennesaw State University say a student was killed in a weekend shooting outside a residence complex on campus. The campus was briefly locked down after the Saturday afternoon shooting.

May 20, 2024
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  • Associated Press
The Nathan Deal Judicial Center, home of Georgia's Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, is seen, Feb. 11, 2020, in Atlanta. Georgia's highest court on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, threw out an indictment that charged a former police chief and a top aide with felonies for failing to investigate allegations of misconduct within their department.

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Georgia Supreme Court declines to rule on whether counties can draw their own electoral maps

The Georgia Supreme Court has declined to rule, at least for now, on whether county commissioners can override state legislators and draw their own electoral districts. All nine justices on Thursday voted to dismiss a lawsuit brought by two Cobb County residents.

May 10, 2024
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