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New vehicles being transported on a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train poke out of their damaged rail car after a Union Pacific train collided with it at Rockview, Mo. Saturday, May 25, 2013. The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into the cause of a cargo train collision that partially collapsed a highway overpass in southeast Missouri, injuring seven people. (AP Photo/The Southeast Missourian, Fred Lynch)
New vehicles being transported on a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train poke out of their damaged rail car after a Union Pacific train collided with it at Rockview, Mo. Saturday, May 25, 2013. The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into the cause of a cargo train collision that partially collapsed a highway overpass in southeast Missouri, injuring seven people. (AP Photo/The Southeast Missourian, Fred Lynch)
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7 hurt when trains collide in Mo., buckling road
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CHAFFEE, Mo. (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into the cause of a cargo train collision that partially collapsed a highway overpass Saturday in southeast Missouri, injuring seven people. The collision occurred about 2:30 a.m. when a Union Pacific train hit a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train at a ra...
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Floyd County Jail report, 8 p.m. Saturday, May 25
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The Floyd County Sheriff's Office releases its jail intake report twice daily -- at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
GRADUATE OF DISTINCTION: Pepperell High School's Thomas Osborne is heading toward a career in music
by Lauren Jones, Staff Writer
May 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
When Thomas Osborne accepts his diploma and turns his tassel, becoming an alumnus of Pepperell High School on Saturday, it will be just another turning point in the long, harrowing road tha...
Probation arrest leads to drug charge
by Kim S. Jarrett, staff writer
May 25, 2013 | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
A Cedartown woman wanted on a probation violation is now facing additional drug charges after police found cocaine on her when she was arrested, according to Floyd County Jail reports. According to...
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Fans of the Ridgeland Panthers football team got plenty to see during Thursday night's annual Black and Silver spring game at Bowers and Painter Field.
Sat May 25 19:28:00 UTC 2013
Calhoun senior Lacey Mullinax (seated, center) signs a cheerleading scholarship with Gardner-Webb (Boiling Springs, N.C.) on Monday. Mullinax will be a football, basketball and competition cheerleader
Sat May 25 16:45:00 UTC 2013
The Gordon Central High track team wrapped up their 2013 season with their annual awards.
Sat May 25 14:01:00 UTC 2013
Calhoun senior Nikki Bertuca (seated, second from left) signs a cheerleading scholarship with Shorter University (Rome, Ga.) on Monday.
Sat May 25 07:45:00 UTC 2013
Intensity is sometimes absent from intrasquad spring football scrimmages.
Sat May 25 01:23:00 UTC 2013
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City asks that Tennis Center of Georgia be part of SPLOST
by Jeremy Stewart, staff writer
May 21, 2013 | 31 31 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
The task of forming a list of possible projects to be funded by a 1-cent special purpose, local option sales tax begins this week. Members of the Rome-Floyd SPLOST Citizens Advisory Committee will ...
Bittersweet reunion: Floyd County Education Center to permanently shut its doors Friday
by Alan Riquelmy, staff writer
May 23, 2013 | 14 14 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Jade Wells stood at the front of the lunch line Wednesday, serving food to students and alumni of the Floyd County Education Center at its farewell luncheon. Wells, 16, graduated last week from th...
Armuchee High, Rome High see graduation rates soar; all area high schools top state rate in a graduation report released Tuesday
by Jeremy Stewart, staff writer
May 22, 2013 | 13 13 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Rome and Floyd County schools all recorded graduation rates for 2012 above the state average, and most saw an increase from 2011, according to figures provided Tuesday by the Georgia Department o...
Poll: Georgians oppose campus guns; Isakson popularity at 50 percent
by Walter C. Jones, Morris News Service
May 22, 2013 | 12 12 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
ATLANTA — A majority of Georgians oppose allowing students who have concealed-weapons permits to carry guns on college campuses, according to a survey released Tuesday.  The poll also shows half th...
SPLOST committee gets proposed list
by Jeremy Stewart, staff writer
May 24, 2013 | 10 10 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The task of narrowing down more than 40 project requests estimated at almost $180 million belongs now to the SPLOST Citizens Advisory Committee. Meeting at the Emergency Operations Center, the 12-...
McDaniel: I am committed to local school governance
by Alan Riquelmy, staff writer
May 24, 2013 | 8 8 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Floyd County schools superintendent Jeff Mc­Daniel said after receiving a letter from the state Charter Committee that he’s committed to local school governance and welcomes a consultant to his sys...
Pepperell Elementary fifth-grader’s random act of kindness comes back to her
by Lauren Jones, Staff Writer
May 21, 2013 | 7 7 comments | 46 46 recommendations | email to a friend
After Lindsey Johnson watched a promotional video for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in class at Pepperell Elementary School, the 11-year-old went home in tears. “She had seen the video and...
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