The Bartow County Board of Education at a called meeting on Monday night appointed a long-time Adairsville resident to finish out former board member Larry Parker’s unexpired term. Click here ...
2 stabbed, 1 critical in bloody robbery Three people were taken to the hospital as a result of a Sunday robbery law enforcement officer said left a bloody scene in Cartersville. Two victims were stabbed, one critically, and the alleged ...
Dalton Area Convention and Visitors Bureau looking 'tired' Tired. That’s a a word that Dalton Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Brett Huske says he hears fairly often when showing potential clients around the Northwest Georgia Trade a...
Polk residents sign up for CodeRED alerts Polk County Public Safety Director Randy Lacey is urging residents to mark Severe Weather Awareness Week by registering for the county’s free CodeRED early warning system. Severe Weather Awareness...
Task Force chief to run for sheriff Larry C. Black, commander of the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force, said he will run for the Catoosa County sheriff position being vacated by Sheriff Phil Summers at the end of the ...
Square dance to benefit avid dancer who lost his home to tornado The Gordon County community is coming together today to raise money for local resident John A. Russell who lost his home in the tornado that ripped through the area in late December. The 82-year-o...
Police investigating Kmart vacuum thefts Fort Oglethorpe police are investigating a shoplifting case in which a two-person team stole several vacuum cleaners on two separate occasions from the Kmart on Battlefield Parkway. According to t...
Robber shook hands, apologized Two teens—reported to police because they were driving around a Cartersville neighborhood, making frequent stops in driveways, and walking through the woods with flashlights—said they were trying t...
A Dalton State College professor has been charged with child molestation by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office and is currently on leave from teaching. Monte Gale Salyer, 58, of 3010 Marran Dri...
NEW YORK (AP) — After three days of controversy, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity says it is reversing its decision to cut breast-screening grants to Planned Parenthood. "We w...
Members of the Cartersville City Council voted unanimously on Thursday night to ban "pill mills", a move that Police Chief Tommy Culpepper said is a response to "rampant" prescription drug abuse ac...
POLK COUNTY — There is not a rabies epidemic, according to Polk County Animal Control Director Jeff Crawford. Crawford responded to questions stirred by rumors indicating there were a number of ra...
RINGGOLD — Boynton Bandits were recently honored in a formal state Senate resolution for winning the 2011 Dizzy Dean World Series Championship. The resolution, co-authored by Sen. Jeff Mullis of C...
Two Dalton men and a woman from Ranger were arrested and more than a pound of methamphetamine was seized Tuesday while detectives with the Whitfield County Sheriff’s were conducting a meth traffick...
A woman who was walking on the campus of Coker Elementary School in western Murray County after school hours on Tuesday was assaulted by a man who feigned injury to attract her, authorities said. ...
A commission studying the merger of the Dalton and Whitfield County governments could decide in two weeks whether to recommend a complete combining of the two governments, a partial merger or no me...
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.