Week In Review: Officer Injured in Hit and Run, SPLOST Passes, Woman Arrested

The band recently gave a performance at Crank Coffee House in Kennesaw and was featured in our artist spotlight.

, daughter of former presidential candidate and Arizona Sen. John McCain, visited Kennesaw State University and gave a lecture on the future of the Republican party. McCain also took a few moments afterward to speak with Patch.

Tuesday, we hit the polls for . The special purpose local option sales tax passed by only  79 votes, but there will be despite the barely there margin.

The Kennesaw woman who reported the shooting of her husband March 7 is an . Melissa Marlowe, 33, was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia after investigators found the drug in her home. However, Marlowe has not been charged in the shooting of her husband, who suffered multiple gun shot wounds.

Kennesaw State University is back after Timothy Chandler, who was offered the job last month, announced Thursday he would no longer be taking the position. Chandler came under fire for an academic paper he co-authored that has been characterized as Marxist and anti-American.

in Kennesaw Thursday after a suspected drunk driver struck him and fled the scene. Irving Alicea of Marietta was arrested and charged with failure to move over for an emergency vehicle, driving under the influence of alcohol and felony hit and run.