Newton County Sheriff Shannon Cothran is warning the public about recent scams. “The scams keep rolling so we do, too,” he said in the scam alert video March 21. The tollbooth scam is still popular ...

Law enforcement officials yesterday were in an eight-hour standoff with a 26-year-old Newton man, which ultimately ended in a peaceful surrender. Newton Police Department responded to a home in the ...

It happened on Wednesday, March 19, around 5 p.m. Justin Etienne, who was a student in the area, was a bystander when a fight ...

The shooting occurred when a large group of students from Newton and Rockdale County schools to celebrate Senior Skip Day.

Liverpool, N.Y. — A 21-year-old man has been arrested on seven felony charges for making a terroristic threat after making ...

Deputies say 16-year-old Jarvis Hinton Jr. has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Justin Etienne ...

Arrief McKenzie will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being sentenced to life without parole plus 20 years for ...

Around 12:20 a.m., deputies saw a GMC pickup truck driving south in the northbound lanes of I-81 near the Taft Road bridge in ...

A second high school student has been arrested in the deadly shooting of another high schooler at a Newton County park during a “senior skip day” event last week, according to the sheriff’s office.