Young Romans
David L. Cohen, executive vice president of Comcast Corporation presents Emily Stallings a scholarship. (Contributed photo) Armuchee graduate nets scholarship for community service efforts
The Comcast Foundation announced recently the 2010 recipients of its annual Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program. In all, 66 Georgia high school students were named as scholarship winners and...
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Jane Tullis, 9, and her six-year-old brother Sam have both earn invitations to the IronKids National Championships in October. (Contributed photo) Brother-sister duo tackling triathlons
When it comes to racing, the triathlon is one of the most challenging, but that hasn’t stopped a couple of local siblings from finding success at an early age in the three-part event. Jane Tullis...
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Carter Miller (from right), Lee Fincher and James Douglas pour mulch on one of two flower beds planted at the West Rome Boys & Girls Club of Northwest Georgia. Miller completed the project in order to gain the ranking of Eagle Scout. (Rod Guajardo, RN-T.com) Carter Miller's Eagle Scout project beautifies Boys & Girls Club
With a few nails, shovels and some help from his fellow Troop 113 Boy Scout members, Rome High School rising senior Carter Miller, 17, is one step closer to becoming an Eagle Scout. Generous d...
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Isbella (from left), 7, Samantha, 11, Gemma, 2, Gabriel, 8, Gianna, 5, and Angelica Warner, 3, raised more than $3,000 for Haiti relief. (Ken Carruthers /RN-T.com) Six siblings sacrifice for Haitians’ sake
Bake sales, birthday savings and pet-sitting jobs are just a few ways six siblings in the Garden Lakes community worked together to build a home and latrine for a destitute family in Haiti through...
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Students get hands-on at youth medical conference
Ever since Lacey Shaw was a little girl, she wanted to be a nurse when she grew up. But then a ballet injury meant she had to have knee surgery, and the experience changed her perspective on medic...
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Camp Calendar
TigerFlight camps Youth Self-Leadership; open to ages 13-18; July 26-30. $400. Sciences of Flight; open to ages 12-14, July 12-15. Cost is $300. Experiencing Flight; open to ages 15 and up, July ...
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by Jazmine Williams, a student at Garden Lakes Elementary School. See June 2010's Young Artists
Each day, a different young artist’s artwork is featured on the front page of the Rome News-Tribune. Here is a gallery of young artist images from June’s front pages.
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Rome High School junior Georgianne Carpenter poses in front of the CNN sign while at the camp. RHS student spends week at CNN
CNN Worldwide, in partnership with Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. and 21st Century Leaders, hosted more than 100 Georgia high school juniors and seniors for the fifth annual Leadership Unplugg...
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Updated Camp Calendar
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TigerFlight camps Youth Self-Leadership; open to ages 13-18; July 26-30. $400. Sciences of Flight; open to ages 12-14, July 12-15. Cost is $300. Experiencing Flight; open to ages 15 and up, Jul...
George Clooney Says Darfur Involvement 'Greatest Failure of My Life'

Clooney and his journalist father smuggled cameras into the Darfur refugee camps four years ago.


Thu Sep 02 13:00:48 -0500 2010
Extra Seriously Injured on Set of 'Transformers 3' After Object Flies Through Car Windshield

Indiana State Police say an extra at a "Transformers 3" production site was seriously injured during the filming of a stunt.


Thu Sep 02 11:21:16 -0500 2010
Fox411 Style: Back to School Fashion

Kids know what they want. Here's where to get it - and usually for cheap!


Thu Sep 02 10:59:15 -0500 2010
French 'Spider-Man' in Sydney court over climb (AP)

French skyscraper climber Alain Robert climbs the Lumiere Residential building in Sydney, Australia, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Robert, nicknamed 'Spiderman' was arrested Monday after scaling the 57-story building in Sydney with his bare hands. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)AP - A French skyscraper climber nicknamed "Spider-Man" pleaded not guilty Friday to charges related to his bare-handed climb up a 57-story building in downtown Sydney.


Thu Sep 02 23:27:51 -0500 2010
Man in Letterman blackmail plot freed from NY jail (AP)

FILE-In a Nov.10, 2009 file photo, Robert 'Joe' Halderman, who tried to blackmail David Letterman over the comedian's office affairs, listens as his attorney Gerald Shargel speaks to the media outside Manhattan criminal court following his court appearance in New York. Halderman was released from a New York City jail Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. He served four months of his six-month sentence and got time off for good behavior. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano,File)AP - The former television producer who tried to blackmail David Letterman was freed Thursday after four months in jail for a plot that put a spotlight on the comic icon's office affairs, city Correction Department records show.


Thu Sep 02 22:30:57 -0500 2010
Rapper T.I. comeback could be derailed with arrest (AP)

FILE - Rapper T.I. whose real name is Clifford Harris speaks to reporters outside the Richard B. Russell Federal Courthouse in Atlanta, in this March 27, 2008 file photo. Police say Rapper T.I. and wife Tameka Cottle have been arrested in West Hollywood for possession of a controlled substance late Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)AP - After finishing a sentence for weapons charges earlier this year, T.I. was poised to have the comeback of the fall.


Thu Sep 02 16:26:19 -0500 2010