Information Technology (IT) is a key to future success for today's youth. At Model High School, students have taken a giant leap into the future as the school has joined Microsoft's IT Academy. The move will allow teens at Model High to achieve industry recognized credentials in Word 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Excel 2010, Access 2010, Word 2010 Expe... full story
Showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and storms could be severe, with pea-sized hail and gusty winds, according to the National Weather Service . Today's high might reach near 85 with a 70 p...
Two men were taken to Floyd Medical Center Wednesday afternoon after two Rome Transit Department buses were involved in an incident at the Midtown Transit Station.
A Goshen minibus collided with th...
Employees at Bekaert Steel Wire , 301 Darlington Drive, are celebrating a million man-hours of production without a safety incident. The last reportable incident at the Rome plant occurred on Ju...
Gattis grand slam leads Braves past Twins 8-3 ATLANTA (AP) — Evan Gattis kept up an amazing rookie season with his first grand slam, B.J. Upton and Ramiro Pena also homered, and the Atlanta Braves finished off a sweep of the woeful Minnesota T...
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...
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...
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 ...
ATLANTA — A majority of Georgians oppose allowing students who have concealed-weapons permits to carry guns on college campuses, according to a survey released Tuesday. The poll also shows half th...
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...
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...
The tourism industry brought more than $117.2 million dollars into Floyd County in 2011, according to Greater Rome Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Lisa Smith.
And her wish li...