A teenager wanted for murder in the death of a 15-year-old at a New Year’s Eve party has been arrested.

WASHINGTON — Every Republican in the U.S. Senate and two Democrats on Wednesday night rejected a proposed change in the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation, dealing a major blow to attempts in Congress to counter restrictive voting laws passed in the states.

The Douglas County Board of Education on Tuesday released its new district map reflecting growth in the county as part of the 2020 Census.

Douglasville Police have arrested four suspects in connection to a shooting that left a 15-year-old boy dead at a New Year’s Eve party.

Douglas County emergency responders had to deal with two separate potentially hazardous situations Wednesday afternoon.

Georgia’s prison system could undergo a radical change with Gov. Brian Kemp’s proposal to spend $600 million to open two new prisons that would replace four outdated correctional facilities with the aim to make prisons safer and cut costs.

While some parts of the state were hit with several inches of snow over the weekend, Douglas County was mostly spared — getting just enough of the white stuff for the kids to make a snowman and not much more.

Judge David T. Emerson served as a superior court judge in Douglas County for 31 years before retiring at the end of 2021.

Douglasville city councilman, mayor pro tem and local architect Terry Miller has written a new play titled “Small Time” and it’s being produced by the Douglasville Community Theater.

Mother Nature brought about an inch of snow to Douglas County on Sunday, just enough to allow kids to make snowmen and catch snowflakes on their tongues before it all melted. The Sentinel asked readers to submit their snow-day photos on Facebook. Here are some of the photos we received.

Douglasville native Elana Meyers Taylor was named to her fourth U.S. Olympic team on Monday.

Douglas County’s top emergency management officials took part in a Friday afternoon briefing by the National Weather Service on the winter weather being forecast for much of north Georgia this weekend.

As a steady wind continued to blow, Tabrieah Cobb and Tiffany Stewart-Stanley stood in front of the courthouse.

Members of Villa Rica’s City Council met for the first time in 2022 during their Jan. 11 council meeting.

The state budget will swell under Gov. Brian Kemp’s proposed spending plan as a surge in revenues clears the way for the rest of a promised teacher pay raise, a salary hike for state workers and $1.6 billion in refunds for taxpayers.

The 2022 General Assembly got underway Monday at the state capitol and election-year politics are expected to play a significant role in the 2022 session, with Republicans running in primaries this spring and looking to score points with the GOP base.

Mason Massey has finally gotten his big NASCAR breakthrough.

Two men were indicted on child molestation charges in two separate cases before a Douglas County grand jury.

Districts were redrawn late last year by the General Assembly for Georgia’s 14 seats in congress as well as all 56 state Senate and 180 state House districts.

A Winston woman has been charged with second degree vehicular homicide for an accident that left two dead over the Labor Day Weekend.

A 20-year-old from Villa Rica has thrown his hat in the ring for the newly redrawn state House District 64 seat that covers the western third of Douglas County and a portion of southeastern Paulding.

Before the Douglasville City Council’s first meeting of the year, the four council members reelected in 2021 were sworn-in by county and municipal judges for new four-year terms.

The Douglasville Police Department is looking to question a female in connection to a murder of a Douglas County teenager.

Phil Williams says it was perseverance that helped lead him through his first seven years of coaching high school baseball.

ATLANTA — Former U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson was remembered Thursday as a bipartisan leader in partisan times who believed in doing the right thing regardless of politics.

Even after returning to Douglasville a couple days later, Yolanda Pate was still getting over the excitement of participating in the Rose Parade.

Students will soon get to learn more about managing their personal finances because of revisions to economics courses.

For most educators, students who embrace reading and writing from early-on is something they welcome. Douglasville fourth-grader Zuri English is just that type of student, but beyond that, she doesn’t just read and write, she’s also published a book on Amazon.