The Barrow County Board of Education will be hiring additional school police officers following a mass shooting at Apalachee High School. Sheriff Jud Smith has recommended increasing the total number ...

A suspicious package was reported outside the United States Post Office on Monroe Highway in Barrow County. Someone reported it to 911, resulting in a swift response from the Barrow County Sheriff’s ...

A metro Atlanta sheriff has been named the sheriff of the year in Georgia for his “unmatched” dedication and to the community. The Georgia Sheriff’s Association selected Barrow County Sheriff Jud ...

Colin Gray, the father of the Apalachee High School shooting suspect, won’t face a jury from Barrow County, where the shooting took place, a judge ruled on Thursday. Gray, through his attorneys, had ...

WINDER, Ga. — Months after a deadly shooting at Apalachee High School prompted a pledge to increase campus security, a funding dispute between Barrow County's Board of Education and the Board of ...

BARROW COUNTY, GA — Authorities are investigating after at least five schools in Barrow County received bomb threats Friday morning, which prompted soft lockdowns and increased security across the ...

BARROW COUNTY, Ga. — The soft lockdown at five Barrow County schools has been lifted Friday morning after law enforcement investigated a series of "threatening calls" to several schools. According to ...

BARROW COUNTY, Ga. — The Barrow County Board of Education took a step closer Tuesday to securing funding for school resource officers. The board approved a budget proposal that would fund 24 SROs in ...

BARROW COUNTY, Ga. - A man was shot Tuesday morning in Barrow County by a Barrow County Sheriff's Office deputy, according to officials. What we know BCSO says deputies were serving a warrant in the ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Concerns continue to mount over student safety could be compromised in a district still trying to process the horrific and deadly school shooting that happened ...

Less than a year after four people were killed in the deadliest school shooting in Georgia history, county officials said they won’t continue to split the cost for school resource officers in the ...