Tommy Pope will bring his Heavenly Barbecue business to the Armuchee Village Shopping Center, 3349 Martha Berry Highway. Pope, who has had a shop in Cedartown for the past five and half years, pla...
Romans can watch police chief be honored live online As the Georgia House reconvenes today in Atlanta, one of the first orders of business is to honor Rome’s police chief. House Resolution 1654 , sponsored by State Rep. Katie Dempsey, R-Rome, rec...
Johnny's now serving pizza for downtown diners More than 30 people went to work at the new Johnny’s New York Style Pizza , 233 Broad St. over the weekend. Owner Rob Blumberg conducted a soft opening for Johnny’s New York Style Pizza last Sa...
Bid awarded for Barron Stadium field The Rome City Commission tapped a Kennesaw-based contractor on Monday to replace the field at Barron Stadium and add an eighth lane to the track. Low-bidder Brasfield & Gorrie General Contrac...
AJC: Teachers least likely to change test answers The state has found that answer sheets from the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test in 2009 contained an unusual number of erasures at 191 — or 10 percent — of Georgia’s elementary and middle sch...
Darlington School revamps Web site Darlington School has upgraded its online presence now that its new-look Web site has gone live, said Tannika King, the school’s director of media relations. “Our main goals in the redesign o...
‘Night of Dreams’ band fundraiser coming up soon The 17th annual “Night of Dreams” fundraiser for the Rome band program will be held Saturday, April 10 at the Forum. The dinner-dance sponsored by the Rome Band Boosters features live jazz, silent...
Chatsworth cockfighting raid a multi-agency crackdown CHATSWORTH — More than 10 law enforcement agencies built a case for 14 months before taking down a cockfighting operation in southern Murray County on Saturday, authorities said. An hour before ...
I-75 lanes closed in Gordon today Two northbound lanes are closed today on I-75 in Gordon County between Exits 306 and 312, the Folsom Road and Fairmount Highway exits. The two left lanes of I-75 northbound between mile markers 3...
Schools face grim outlook The DeKalb County Board of Education will hold a work session Tuesday to discuss the impact of an increasingly grim financial outlook for its upcoming fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. Like other ...
Alabama legislators consider shortening school year Published March 15, 2010 The financial crisis facing Alabama state government could mean a longer summer vacation for Fort Payne City and DeKalb County school children. The Alabama Legislature is ...
A woman heading to her stepfather's house was "beyond lost" when she and her 8-year-old son took one wrong turn after another through the backroads of Thurston County and onto a private Puget Sound beach, authorities said Monday.
A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the beach, officials said Tuesday.
An earthquake east of downtown Los Angeles rippled across Southern California before dawn Tuesday, jolting millions of people awake and putting first-responders on alert but causing no damage, injuries or power outages.
Police escorted convoys of flatbed trucks carrying piles of sandbags into neighborhoods Monday as the cities of Fargo in eastern North Dakota and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., went into flood-fighting mode.
Two arrested in Avenue A assault Two Rome men were jailed early Tuesday after an altercation in which one of the men struck a person in the left eye with a brick, reports stated. According to Floyd County Jail records: Jerry Neal...
West Rome sting nets meth trafficking arrest A drug sting resulted in the arrest of a Rome woman who allegedly delivered more than one ounce of meth packaged for sale on Monday evening, reports stated. According to Floyd County Jail records:...
Chatsworth cockfighting raid a multi-agency crackdown CHATSWORTH — More than 10 law enforcement agencies built a case for 14 months before taking down a cockfighting operation in southern Murray County on Saturday, authorities said. An hour before ...
Teenager killed in Cartersville shooting A 19-year-old man was killed Saturday night after an altercation on Middlebrook Drive in Cartersville, reports stated. According to Bartow County Sheriff’s Office reports: Witnesses stated the fat...
Budget task force set to turn over recommendations ATLANTA (AP) — Senate leaders are expected to get dozens of ideas for saving billions of dollars from a group of business leaders assembled to bring fresh ideas to Georgia’s fiscal crisis....
Dodd unveils sweeping financial regulation plan WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Democratic Senate bill to tame the financial markets would give the government new powers to break up firms that threaten the economy, force the industry to pay for its f...
Obama seeks to reassure seniors on health care STRONGSVILLE , Ohio (AP) — With a fresh sense of urgency, President Barack Obama sought to reassure seniors Monday about health care legislation approaching a final vote in Congress, pledging it ...