Downtown storefront windows broken; police have three in custody
Cedartown Police say they have three individuals in custody in connection with a number of broken storefront windows and a couple of broken car windows in Downtown Cedartown Wednesday night. According to Cedartown Police Chief Jamie Newsome, a pellet gun was recovered from a vehicle matching the description of theContinue Reading
High School Basketball: LISTEN LIVE
Click below to listen live to WGAA!! WGAA is bringing you coverage of the Cedartown Bulldogs and Rockmart Yellow Jackets right here on online. Click below for the link to our webstreams: GIRLS BASKETBALL – Cedartown Lady Dawgs @ Central-Carroll Lady Lions – Tuesday, January 20 – Live at 6:00Continue Reading
High school basketball tonight
WGAA is bringing you coverage of the Cedartown Bulldogs and Rockmart Yellow Jackets right here on online. Click below for the link to our webstreams: GIRLS BASKETBALL – Cedartown Lady Dawgs @ Pepperell Lady Dragons – Friday, January 9 – Live at 7:00 PM BOYS BASKETBALL – Cedartown Bulldogs @Continue Reading
Rockmart boys hoops win in opening region game
Rockmart’s Jaylin Smith may have had one of the best individual performances of the year Tuesday evening as he led the Rockmart Yellow Jackets boys basketball team to an opening region win on the road. Smith tallied 33 points in a 60-49 win over the Pepperell Dragons, improving Rockmart’s overallContinue Reading
City offering warming shelter for those in need
The City of Cedartown announced today that the Goodyear Civic Center will be made available tonight as an emergency-only shelter for residents — city or county – as forecasters are calling for temperatures to drop to 10 degrees or below. According to Cedartown City Manager Bill Fann, residents who haveContinue Reading
Report: County police arrest woman after chase
Polk County Police recently arrested a woman who reportedly led police on a brief pursuit while driving the wrong way on a divided highway. According to reports, Polk 911 advised police that someone had called about a wrong way driver on Highway 278 near Wimberly Hill Road. The driver wasContinue Reading
Judge sentences John Paul Jones to life without parole
The man convicted of gunning down a former police officer in what the prosecution called a “malicious ambush killing” will spend the rest of his life behind bars. John Paul Jones was found guilty on December 11 of malice murder, felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault, and two countsContinue Reading
AAA: Motorists find cheapest holiday gas prices in six years
PRESS RELEASE Motorists traveling for the year-end holidays saw the cheapest Christmas day gasoline since 2008. The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded was $2.43 in Florida, $2.32 in Georgia, and $2.18 in Tennessee. These prices broke the previous lows set in 2009 of $2.63 in Florida, $2.44Continue Reading
Northwest Georgia’s unemployment rate falls to 6.4 percent in November
PRESS RELEASE ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that the unemployment rate in the Northwest Georgia region was 6.4 percent in November, down six-tenths of a percentage point from 7.0 percent in October. The rate in November of last year was also 7.0 percent. The rate fellContinue Reading
Police investigating suspicious fires
Polk County Police are investigating a couple of fires that occurred in the western section of the county just a few days apart. A fire at a vacant structure on Lumpkin Road was called in to Polk 911 early on Friday of last week. Polk County Fire units responded toContinue Reading