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Jesse Edgar takes a break in the shade while helping salvage items at a friend's home Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Jesse Edgar takes a break in the shade while helping salvage items at a friend's home Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Thunderstorms slow Oklahoma tornado cleanup
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
MOORE, Okla. (AP) — A band of thunderstorms battered the Oklahoma City area Thursday, slowing cleanup operations in the suburb where a tornado killed 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes this week. The first of the funerals, for a 9-year-old girl killed at a Moore elementary school that took a direct hit in Monday's storm, was scheduled f...
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Northside Swim Center set to open Saturday
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May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
The Northside Swim Center, located on Kingston Avenue, is set to open this Memorial Day weekend for the summer swimming season. Swimmers will get their first chance to get a dip in the spool on S...
Fountain on Town Green closed tonight for cleaning
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The Rome-Floyd Parks and Recreation Authority announced in a press release this afternoon the Town Green fountain is being shut down tonight for cleaning. According to the release, the fountain w...
Redmond Regional Medical Center names Ken Metteauer new CFO
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May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
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Atlanta’s Evan Gattis, second from right, is greeted by teammates Chris Johnson, Jason Heyward and Freddie Freeman after hitting a grand slam in the fourth inning Wednesday.
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ATLANTA — Evan Gattis no longer seems amazed by his improbable rookie season. Yet, there are still times when it’s a bit of an adjustment for the Braves catcher. Like when someone recognizes him in...
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The Cedartown High School football booster club is looking to give back to the community this spring.
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Sonoraville senior Josh Nicholson (seated, second from right) signed a track and field and cross country scholarship on Friday with Brewton-Parker (Mount Vernon, Ga.).
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Beth Wade is returning to the head coaching position for the Coosa girls basketball team, and Nic Hann is the new head volleyball coach, the school announced Wednesday.
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Officers arrest 16 people during River Jam
by Jeremy Stewart, staff writer
May 20, 2013 | 35 35 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
City asks that Tennis Center of Georgia be part of SPLOST
by Jeremy Stewart, staff writer
May 21, 2013 | 23 23 comments | 6 6 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 ...
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...
Atheists to put books next to Bibles in Ga. parks
by JEFF MARTIN,Associated Press
May 20, 2013 | 11 11 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Police believe robbers live near their target; Big H on Main Street has been robbed for second time in two months
by Kim S. Jarrett, staff writer
May 19, 2013 | 9 9 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
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 | 9 9 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...
Tourist chief proposes SPLOST projects to Exchange Club
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
May 18, 2013 | 9 9 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
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