FORSYTH, Ga. -- The first black policeman killed while protecting the Athens public 50 years ago will finally get his name on the wall honoring fallen officers.
Donald Moon was one of a dozen officers from across the state receiving recognition Monday at the Public Safety Training Center where the wall graces a courtyard.
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While statewide gains on the high school graduation rate were modest from 2011 to 2012, most Rome and Floyd County schools saw bigger gains, according to figures provided Tuesday by the Georgia Dep...
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The Rome-Floyd Parks and Recreation Authority has closed a portion of the Ridge Ferry Park trail way system due to flooding. The portion of the trail closed is located behind Chieftain’s Museum and...
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 ...
Rome Braves: Braves shut out GreenJackets
The turning point: The Braves took a 1-0 lead in the first inning and never looked back. They added two more in the fourth, one in the fifth and two in the eighth.
Who did what for Rome: Tyler Te...
Obama’s policies are working
President Obama has been elected twice by the American people. That included winning the Jewish vote. The Obama Administration has the best Middle Eastern foreign poli...
Spectators at the sixth annual Rome River Jam music festival at Ridge Ferry Park kept Rome police busy Saturday.
Reports from the Rome Police Department indicate that officers working detail at the...
SILVER CREEK — A woman is using her bare hands to build a house in the woods by stacking large rocks on top of each other, one rock at a time.
After a posting on the Rome Georgia Yard Sale Faceboo...
The debate over the U.S. 411 Connector to Interstate 75 has become a “national flashpoint issue,” according to state Rep. Christian Coomer, R-Cartersville.
Coomer and the other Floyd County delega...
Police believe two men who have held up the same convenience store twice in two months live in the neighborhood and someone knows who they are.
“If they are not permanent residents, they are stay...
ATLANTA (AP) — A national atheist group said Monday that it will donate its literature for use in cabins and lodges in Georgia's state parks after the governor's recent decision to allow Bibles the...
The tourism industry brought more than $117.2 million dollars into Floyd County in 2011, according to Greater Rome Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Lisa Smith.
And her wish li...