In this Sunday, May 19, 2013, photo provided by CBS News, Gary Pruitt, the President and CEO of the Associated Press, discusses the leak investigation that led to his reporters' phone records being subpoenaed by the Justice Department on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Pruitt says DoJ's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was "unconstitutional", and that the secret subpoena of reporters' phone records has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists. (AP Photo/CBS, Chris Usher)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department.
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Some new storms have brought more rain to Rome and Floyd County as well as some new problems.
Scanner traffic and phone calls into the RN-T indicate that the power is out along Shorter Avenue and ...
The rain will come in today and stay at least until 2 p.m. with a high near 82, according to the National Weather Service .
Showers and thunderstorms will be accompanied by gusts as high as 15 ...
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...
Rome Braves: Sunday's game rained out The Braves' game scheduled for today against the Asheville Tourists at State Mutual Stadium has been postponed by rain. The makeup date has not been announced.
Tickets for today's game can be exch...
CARROLLTON - With a state title on the line, two very evenly matched teams battled for almost the entire length of regulation on Saturday at West Georgia’s University Stadium.
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...
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...
Gov. Nathan Deal today instructed the state Department of Natural Resources to return Bibles to cabins and lodge rooms at state parks.
Out of an abundance of caution to avoid potential litigation, ...
Rome will become the backdrop for a movie this week as a Dreamworks motion picture, “Need for Speed,” begins filming here Thursday. The work, which runs through Sunday, will lead to some road c...
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...
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...
Berry College is suing Tennessee’s higher education commission in a dispute over billboard advertising.
Berry College says in the federal lawsuit that the Tennessee agency has threatened to su...