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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a wireless controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved — and disable it remotely.
The technology, but not an actual gun, was demonstrated Tuesday at a wireless technology conference in Las Vegas and was shown to The Associa...
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While statewide gains on the high school graduation rate were modest from 2011 to 2012, most Rome and Floyd County schools saw bigger gains, according to figures provided Tuesday by the Georgia Dep...
This contributed photo shows a bridge that crosses over Burwell Creek near Ridge Ferry Park.
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The Rome-Floyd Parks and Recreation Authority has closed a portion of the Ridge Ferry Park trail way system due to flooding. The portion of the trail closed is located behind Chieftain’s Museum and...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s policies are working
May 17, 2013 | 60 | 10 |
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Obama’s policies are working
President Obama has been elected twice by the American people. That included winning the Jewish vote. The Obama Administration has the best Middle Eastern foreign poli...
Officers arrest 16 people during River Jam
May 20, 2013 | 26 | 8 |
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Spectators at the sixth annual Rome River Jam music festival at Ridge Ferry Park kept Rome police busy Saturday.
Reports from the Rome Police Department indicate that officers working detail at the...
Silver Creek woman using bare hands to build house with rocks
May 17, 2013 | 25 | 23 |
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SILVER CREEK — A woman is using her bare hands to build a house in the woods by stacking large rocks on top of each other, one rock at a time.
After a posting on the Rome Georgia Yard Sale Faceboo...
Coomer: U.S. 411 a ‘national flashpoint’
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The debate over the U.S. 411 Connector to Interstate 75 has become a “national flashpoint issue,” according to state Rep. Christian Coomer, R-Cartersville.
Coomer and the other Floyd County delega...
City asks that Tennis Center of Georgia be part of SPLOST
May 21, 2013 | 14 | 5 |
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The task of forming a list of possible projects to be funded by a 1-cent special purpose, local option sales tax begins this week. Members of the Rome-Floyd SPLOST Citizens Advisory Committee will ...
Police believe robbers live near their target; Big H on Main Street has been robbed for second time in two months
May 19, 2013 | 9 | 3 |
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Police believe two men who have held up the same convenience store twice in two months live in the neighborhood and someone knows who they are.
“If they are not permanent residents, they are stay...
Atheists to put books next to Bibles in Ga. parks
May 20, 2013 | 9 | 5 |
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ATLANTA (AP) — A national atheist group said Monday that it will donate its literature for use in cabins and lodges in Georgia's state parks after the governor's recent decision to allow Bibles the...
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