CEDARTOWN - Several businesses and churches are accepting donations to aid storm victims affected by last week’s Oklahoma tornadoes.
The Cedartown Kroger is participating in a store-wide "round-up...
Redmond Regional Medical Center names Ken Metteauer new CFO Redmond Regional Medical Center announced in a press release this afternoon their new chief financial officer for the hospital, Ken Metteauer. Metteauer, who took over as the CFO on May 1, replac...
Polk Co. Sheriff asks GBI to review incident involving jailer The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is being called to evaluate possible criminal charges against a jailer accused of injuring an inmate, according to Polk County Sheriff Johnny Moats.
Moats said h...
Lake Winnie waterpark set to open Monday
FORT OGLETHORPE — Lake Winnepesaukah is putting the final touches on its new water park SoakYa in time for Monday’s 1 p.m. opening. Pools, water slides and an adventure river are now located on the...
Baby dies, dad hurt in Whitfield
DALTON — A 2-month-old baby in Whitfield County was killed after her mother accidentally pinned her and the child’s father against the wall of their home Sunday, officials said. Whitfield Sheriff’s...
Lake Winnepesaukah is putting the final touches on its new water park SoakYa in time for a Memorial Day (Monday, May 27) opening at 1 p.m.
The park was originally scheduled to open Friday, May 24....
A tip led to the arrest of a Marietta man who allegedly grew 39 marijuana plants near a park in the Bartow County city of White, just outside Cartersville. A May 11 call about Charles Larry Edmonds...
A Tennessee man wanted in connection with a homicide in that state committed suicide Monday in a Calhoun hotel room after being surrounded law enforcement officials, according to the Gordon County ...
FORT OGLETHORPE — Fired former public works director Jeff Long is one of City Council member Earl Gray’s two proposed appointees to a city charter study committee. Mayor Lynn Long called for the c...
GADSDEN — More than 300 Gadsden State Community College employees cast votes of no confidence in the leadership of school president Raymond Staats following complaints made in the past year regardi...
ROCKMART — Skateboarders from three countries left Rockmart for Weaver, Ala., on Saturday — the second day of the three-day Chief Ladiga Silver Comet Skate Challenge. This is the third year of the ...
DALTON — Those who own property in Whitfield County outside the Dalton city limits could get a bit of sticker shock when they get their tax bills this year. County Commission Chairman Mike Babb iss...
SUMMERVILLE — A 53-year-old Summerville man flagged down a lawman and confessed to leaving a “bootlegger’s” house, according to Chattooga County Sheriff’s Deputy John Chandler. The deputy was trave...
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who refused to testify on her agency's scandal, also refused to resign, according to a Republican senator who complained that she was only put on administrative leave — with pay.