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Judge in Georgia's Cobb County extends return deadline for absentee ballots after lawsuit

ATLANTA — A judge agreed Friday to approve a consent order to extend the absentee ballot return deadline for Cobb County voters whose applications were received on or before Nov. 26, in response to a lawsuit over alleged delays by the county in mailing out the ballots.

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Cobb County sued over failure to mail ballots to over 1,000 voters

Voters who were never mailed their absentee ballots filed a lawsuit Sunday asking a judge to require Cobb County to send ballots by overnight mail and extend the state’s deadline to return them.

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Accidental lockdowns in multiple Cobb County schools caused by ‘human error’

ATLANTA — Several Cobb County schools were locked down Monday because of “human error,” a district spokeswoman confirmed.

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Georgia Republicans aim to beat Democrats at their own ‘ground game’

ATLANTA — The two Republican door-knockers had scarcely started canvassing homes in a well-appointed east Cobb County neighborhood when they began to suspect something was up.

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Georgia deputies killed in ‘ambush’ while serving arrest warrant

Cobb County sheriff paid tribute to deputies Jonathan Koleski and Marshall Ervin Jr who were shot and killed on Thursday

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Suspects face murder, other charges after fatal shooting of 2 Georgia deputies

ATLANTA — The Cobb County Sheriff’s Office on Friday identified the two men arrested after two deputies were shot to death Thursday night.

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2 suspects arrested after 2 Georgia deputies fatally shot while serving warrant

ATLANTA — The investigation continued Friday into the deaths of two Cobb County deputies and the arrests of two suspects.

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Sheriff: Slain deputies ambushed serving warrant in Georgia

Authorities say two deputies were killed in an ambush while serving a warrant at a home in a suburb near Atlanta

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2 deputies killed serving warrant in Georgia; suspect barricaded

ATLANTA — Two deputies were killed Thursday evening while serving a warrant in Cobb County, authorities said.

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Prosecutors formally seek death penalty in Georgia golf course triple slaying

ATLANTA — Cobb County prosecutors on Wednesday formally declared their intent to seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing three people last year at a Kennesaw-area golf course.

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Georgia school system to let some non-officers carry guns

Georgia’s second-largest school district has approved a policy that lets some employees who aren’t certified police officers carry guns in schools

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Trump probe in Georgia: Cobb County elections chief to testify, legislators await subpoenas

ATLANTA — The elections chief in Georgia's Cobb County, which was at the center of an extraordinary audit of absentee ballots cast in the disputed 2020 presidential race, has been subpoenaed to testify before a special grand jury.

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DA seeking death penalty in Georgia country club slayings

ATLANTA — Cobb County’s district attorney plans to pursue the death penalty against an aspiring rapper accused of fatally shooting three men last summer at a bustling golf course.

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3 indicted in triple killing at Georgia golf course

ATLANTA — A Cobb County grand jury has issued an 18-count indictment against three people charged in connection with a triple homicide last summer at a Kennesaw-area golf course.

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Death row inmate has execution for child rape and murder delayed by Covid clause

Virgil Delano Presnell Jr, 68, who abducted two girls as they walked home from school in Cobb County, near Atlanta, in 1976, was due to be executed on Tuesday but has had the date delayed

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Georgia cityhood push divides: White flight or self-rule?

Georgia's Republican-controlled state Legislature has passed legislation that would give three mostly white areas of a metro Atlanta county the chance to form their own cities this year

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