Update: Fire officials said it appears no one was home during a house fire on Pollock Street in South Rome on Monday evening. The house received extensive damage. Fire officials were still searc...
Man charged with box cutter assault A Rome man remained in jail on Monday morning after he threatened someone with a box cutter late Sunday night, according to a Floyd County Jail report. According to the report: Edgar Lee Huntley...
2 pedestrians still hospitalized
Two pedestrians struck by vehicles in Rome last week remained in critical condition at Floyd Medical Center on Monday night, Feb. 6, an FMC spokeswoman said. Christopher Loyd Crabb, 49, of Menlo w...
Police: Rome woman started riot in jail
A Rome woman who was arrested Tuesday on a charge of disorderly conduct started a riot in the Floyd County Jail on Saturday afternoon, resulting in additional charges, according to a Floyd County J...
Store clerk threatened with gun
A clerk at a convenience store on North Broad Street told police Saturday night that a man pointed a gun in her direction around 5:10 p.m. last night then drove off. According to Rome police repor...
Floyd man victim of fraud
A bank card scammer in Virginia has reportedly victimized a Floyd County man. According to Rome police reports: Officials with the victim’s local credit union notified the resident of Big Texas V...
Floyd County man charged with trespass, possession
A Floyd County man was arrested and charged with criminal trespass and possession of a controlled substance Friday night, Feb. 3, according to a Floyd County police report. According to the report...
A Rome man was arrested Saturday afternoon, Feb. 4, and charged with cruelty to children, battery and obstruction, according to a Floyd County Jail report. According to the report: Michael Antho...
A two-vehicle wreck that occurred on Kingston Highway just east of the bypass Saturday evening sent one woman to Floyd Medical Center. Police did not know the extent of her injuries. Officials fro...
A Lindale woman was arrested and charged early Saturday morning, Feb. 4, with a felony count of possession of tools for the commission of a crime, and misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass, obstr...
An East Rome man called Rome police Thursday, Feb. 2, after discovering that an air-conditioning unit had been stolen from a residence on Maple Street. According to Rome police reports: The victi...
The head of security for the Northwest Georgia Housing Authority, Melvin Scott, notified Rome police of a couple of incidents of fraud that are being investigated. According to Rome police reports...
A Rome man called Rome police Thursday after discovering that an income tax refund check that was apparently delivered to his home last fall had been stolen and cashed at an undisclosed location ou...
A Rome business was apparently the victim of an internal theft sometime over the course of the last two months. According to Rome police reports: Personnel at the Shell Medical store, 1102 N. Fif...
A Floyd County man was arrested Friday evening after allegedly threatening to slash the throat of a woman in the same car with him. According to Floyd County Jail reports: Grady Allen Williams, 4...
Outrage from Catholics over mandate that employers must cover entire cost of female contraception as part of health care overhaul could be factor in presidential election, as Obama won the Catholic vote in 2008 by a 9 percentage-point margin.