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Fire Dept. probing fire that burned down 10 apartments
The Smyrna Fire Department is continuing to investigate a weekend fire that burned down 10 units at Mission Galleria apartment complex at 5000 Lincoln Trace Ave. off Cobb Parkway near the Galleria Centre.
Smyrna Fire Chief Jason Lanyon said an initial investigation points to an overloaded electrical outlet as the cause of the fire.
No one was reported injured. Lanyon said all the residents were out of the building by the time firefighter, arrived.
A Kia SUV crashed into the side of a Cobb County building Wednesday, injuring the three men inside the vehicle, police said.
Cobb County Police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce said officers believe the driver crashed into a building at College Place Business Park because he had a diabetic seizure.
As the driver, who was not identified, tried to turn right off Shiloh Road onto Frey Road around 12:30 p.m., the Kia drifted across the road and hit the building.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted on Wednesday, June 10
Plane Lands On Cobb Parkway
Officials in Cobb County said a small plane has landed safely on Cobb Parkway.
The plane landed on the busy road just before 11:30 a.m.
Pilot Mike Davidson reported smoke in the cockpit as he was trying to land at McCollum Airport when he made the emergency landing.
The Sky Arrow 600 Sport plane landed on Cobb Parkway near Acworth Due West Road and Nance Road, then turned onto Loring Road.
The pilot even managed to pull into a parking space at a subdivision under construction.
Cobb County police say Maria Isabel Pacheco Agullon tried to report her son’s vehicle stolen when she learned he was allegedly involved in a fatal hit-and-run in Marietta.
Agullon, 46, was arrested after trying to hide her son’s involvement and misleading investigators, police said. She was charged with obstruction of an officer.
Marietta police said they arrested a mother who allegedly left her young children in her unlocked car so she could shoplift inside a Wal-Mart.
Police said Lashaundra Chantee Cooper, 23, was initially detained by Wal-Mart security when she was attempting to leave the Marietta store without paying for $24.75 worth of clothing items for herself.
A small plane made an emergency landing on U.S. 41 in North Cobb Monday morning.
The plane landed on the highway and then taxied onto Loring Road, according to Cobb police. The area is near McCollum Field.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted on Monday, June 08
Scam locks Cobb parents out of graduation
Some parents of South Cobb High seniors were unable to attend Saturday’s graduation at Roswell Street Baptist Church in Marietta because the sanctuary was filled to capacity.
With up to 80 people using fake tickets to enter, the sanctuary filled up and school officials were forced to turn people away.
South Cobb teacher killed in wreck was to wed this summer
Jay Chapman, the South Cobb High School social studies teacher killed Friday in a head-on collision outside New Orleans, was heading to the city to celebrate his upcoming wedding.
A group of 15 friends, composed of his Pi Kappa Phi fraternity brothers from University of West Georgia, had planned a golf outing as five of the men are engaged to be married, said Joseph Chapman, Jay’s father.
James M. “Jay” Chapman, 28, and his fiancee Katie Walker, both of Atlanta, planned to marry July 4 in Rome.
