WRGA Radio report Deputy Police Chief Travis Goss confirms that one person is dead from a gunshot wound. One person is in custody but it is not known at this time if it is related to the shooting. According to eyewitnesses, the victim is a male in his 20s. AContinue Reading
PRESS RELEASE The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for August was 8.1 percent, up four-tenths of a percentage point from a revised 7.7 percent in July. The rate in August of last year was 8.2 percent. “We had good job growth, both overContinue Reading
According to Cherokee County Sheriff Jeff Shaver, an arrest has been made in the death of Sarah Ortiz, 20, of Valley Head. Ortiz had been reported missing from DeKalb County. Her body was discovered by a fisherman in Weis Lake in Leesburg on July 18, 2014. Sheriff Shaver reported on Wednesday, August 20, RileyContinue Reading
PRESS RELEASE ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) will help Toyo Tires recruit a number of workers for its manufacturing facility in Bartow County on Saturday, Aug. 23. The recruitment will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Gordon County Parks and Recreation Center, 7494 Fairmount Highway, S.E.Continue Reading
A missing elderly couple from Louisiana that prompted a Mattie’s Call to be issued late Sunday has been found and is safe. According to a press release from the Floyd County Police Department, Pierre Demetrius Billiot and his wife Willie Pearl Billiot were found alive and well in Marietta atContinue Reading
An elderly couple that has ties to Cedartown has been the subject of a Mattie’s Call as authorities are still trying to locate them. Floyd County Police say 83-year-old Willie Pearl Billiot and 77-year-old Demetrius Billiot of Port Sulfer, Louisiana were last seen in northeastern Floyd County on Friday. TheyContinue Reading
PRESS RELEASE According to Sheriff Clark Millsap, just after 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, the Bartow County 911 Center began to receive calls of a man shooting persons at a home on Brent Circle. Deputies and investigators responded with rescue personnel to the scene and as they didContinue Reading
It’s happened again. Another woman is reporting an attack on a Georgia trail. The latest attack was in Atlanta, after the one on the Silver Comet Trail in Paulding County and the other on the Iron Hill Trail at Red Top Mountain Park in Bartow County. Law enforcement do not believeContinue Reading
ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for July was 7.8 percent, up four-tenths of a percentage point from 7.4 percent in June. The rate in July of last year was 8.3 percent. “The July rate increase is primarily due to temporaryContinue Reading
Motorists headed back to Cedartown from the Rome area Thursday afternoon were delayed for almost an hour after a two-vehicle accident on Highway 27 near Booger Hollow Road in Floyd County. According to Floyd County 911, a number of emergency units were sent to the wreck where two vehicles ranContinue Reading
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