The 118-year-old Texas-based company announced late Friday it had filed for bankruptcy and will be shuttering some stores as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, explaining doors will close throughout the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. “The first phase of closures, including specific store details and timing, will be disclosed in the coming weeks,” the company said May 15. J.C. Penney states online it has recently reopened over 50 of its stores nationwide, including two in Georgia — at...

Cobb County has had 2,418 cases of the new coronavirus as of Monday afternoon, according to the most recent report from the Georgia Department of Public Health. A total of 133 county residents have died from the virus to date, per the report. Monday’s report includes 11 more Cobb County cases than were reported Saturday evening and one new death. Cobb remains fourth among Georgia counties in terms of the number of cumulative confirmed cases, behind Fulton with 3,761, DeKalb with 2,819 and...

Marietta police say they are investigating two unrelated serious injury crashes that hospitalized a Marietta woman and two young men. Police say Nicholas Demonthenes Braggs, 25, of Jackson, Mississippi, was driving his 2013 Hyundai Elantra at 113 miles per hour while drunk on Interstate 75 northbound near South Marietta Parkway in southeast Marietta around 8:15 p.m. on May 13. The speed limit on the interstate was 65 mph, police said, adding that Braggs has never had a driver’s license and...

A 23-year-old Marietta woman is behind bars after police accused her of belting two children across the face and body, forcing them to stay in an ice bath and submerging one under water during a late-night domestic violence incident. Meiri Josari Lara-Oliva, originally from Honduras, is in the Cobb County jail on a $50,000 bond order facing two felony counts of cruelty to children in the first degree, one felony count of aggravated assault with intent to murder, a felony count of aggravated...

Marietta police found a large amount of illegal drugs and cash in the trunk of a car after pulling the driver over for a minor traffic violation, records show. According to his arrest warrant, Donald Reese, 34, of Nashville, Tennessee, encountered Marietta police at the intersection of Interstate 75 and Delk Road just before 11 p.m. on May 12, when he made an illegal turn using a no-driving part of the roadway that separates merging traffic at exits, otherwise known as a gore. Inside the...