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A local resident allowed by security officers into an otherwise sealed off neighborhood walks past the rubble of destroyed homes, one day after a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
A local resident allowed by security officers into an otherwise sealed off neighborhood walks past the rubble of destroyed homes, one day after a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Crews race to find survivors of Oklahoma twister
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Emergency crews searched the broken remnants of an Oklahoma City suburb Tuesday for survivors of a massive tornado that flattened homes and demolished an elementary school. At least 24 people were killed, including at least nine children, and those numbers were expected to climb. As the sun rose over the shattered community ...
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Rome and Floyd County high schools graduation rates show overall increase
by Staff Reports
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Rome-Floyd Parks and Recreation Authority Closes trails due to flooding
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May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
City asks that Tennis Center of Georgia be part of SPLOST
by Jeremy Stewart, staff writer
May 21, 2013 | 7 7 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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 ...
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Timely hitting for Augusta seals win over Rome
The Rome Braves fell to the Augusta Greenjackets Tuesday afternoon 7-4, before a crowd of 4,017 fans at State Mutual Stadium. The series is now tied 1-1. Augusta’s Andrew Cain scored off of a wild...
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s policies are working
by Charles R. Shiflett, Rome
May 17, 2013 | 48 48 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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
by Jeremy Stewart, staff writer
May 20, 2013 | 26 26 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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
by The Associated Press
May 17, 2013 | 25 25 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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’
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
May 16, 2013 | 4 4 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Police believe robbers live near their target; Big H on Main Street has been robbed for second time in two months
by Kim S. Jarrett, staff writer
May 19, 2013 | 9 9 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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
by JEFF MARTIN,Associated Press
May 20, 2013 | 9 9 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Tourist chief proposes SPLOST projects to Exchange Club
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
May 18, 2013 | 8 8 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
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