SAFETY TIPS: Track registered sex offenders in your community. Click Offender Watch Crime Mapping: See what crimes have been reported in your neighborhood. Crime Mapping Rome Police Department’s anonymous crime tip line. 706-236-5000. Click for details. Bartow County Sheriff’s Office partners with The Wanted Channel to provide an outlet to post wanted persons: Bartow’s most wanted… Read more
Media release: Because of phone lines being down at the courthouse/judicial center, for Monday, Dec. 9, Jurors 1-110 will need to report as instructed on your summons to the jury assembly room #308, located on the 3rd floor of the new courthouse, Tribune Street between the Historic Courthouse and The Forum. Jurors should… Read more
Editor’s notes: Hometown Headlines does not identify reported victims of sexual crimes. In this case, however, the reported victim has presented herself by name at a press conference. Also, we are not linking you to the original story as it features inappropriate advertising, especially given the nature of this case. A summary follows. From siliconvalley.com: Twenty… Read more
Cartersville native Robert Benham is retiring from the Georgia Supreme Court as of March 1. That means Gov. Brian Kemp will appoint a replacement before Benham’s term ends on Dec. 31, 2020. Benham, age 73, has served on the court for nearly half his life. Media release: Justice Robert Benham announced today that he will… Read more
Watch for traffic if you’re heading south on Turner McCall from downtown Rome. Georgia DOT is doing “some paving maintenance on the SR 1 loop from SR 1 all the way to Highway 411,” says Joe Schulman of the Cartersville office. One spot to watch in particular: The merge onto Martha Berry as you come… Read more
UPDATE: The accident has been cleared from the interstate but traffic remains backed up. Commuters trying to get home from metro Atlanta or the Kennesaw area this evening are in for a rough commute. A two-vehicle accident on 75 north has the left lane blocked as of 5:05 p.m. Your best bet: Bail off… Read more
Media release: Around 8:15 a.m. Friday, Nov. 29, the Gordon County Fire Department responded to a residential fire located on the corner of Oakman Road and Hanes Road. When emergency personnel made their way inside the home, they discovered the body of Charles Vice, 69, of Oakman. “The home was completely destroyed by the blaze.… Read more
An accident on Martha Berry Highway near the Armuchee post office has traffic tied up, especially in the northbound lanes from Scenic Drive past Little Texas Valley at 3:20 p.m. as shown in this Google Traffic map. The best detour probably is Old Summerville Road but it also shows signs of buildup. Read more
THE LATEST Sarvan Saina, identified as the clerk shot in Saturday night’s armed robbery, has been treated for his injuries and released from Floyd Medical Center. From Assistant Chief of Police Debbie Burnett: On Nov. 30 at 9:15 p.m., a black male entered 410 S. Broad (Hi Tech) wearing all black and a black… Read more
One person was injured in a motorhome fire on I-75 in Gordon County on Saturday, according to a report from WTVC News Channel 9. The incident was reported around 11:50 a.m. on I-75 southbound near mile marker 311, near the Calhoun Outlet Marketplace. Gordon County 911 says one person was taken to the hospital… Read more
Three Rome resident have been arrested in the latest sweep by the Metro Drug Task Force and the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office. The arrests occurred Tuesady at 133 Bollen Drive, identified as the residence of one of the suspects, Timothy Van Smith, 56. Arrested on multiple counts were: Smith, charged with theft by receiving stolen… Read more
Cartersville Police media release: Tuesday morning at approximately 09:58, the alleged suspect, Tabori Talley of Mountain Chase Drive in Cartersville, entered the Marathon Gas Station at 1139 N. Tennessee St., indicated he had a firearm and demanded money from the cash register. The suspect fled the scene with an unknown amount of cash in… Read more
Media release: On Nov. 25, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Region 1 Field Office arrested Detective Steve Edwin Sorrells, 48, on child molestation charges. Sorrells was subsequently taken into custody and booked into the Paulding County Jail on the below listed charges: Child Molestation (felony) 2 Counts Violation of Oath of Office (felony) On… Read more
According to Gordon County Sheriff Mitch Ralston: On Nov. 18, the Sheriff’s Office received a tip from a concerned citizen that a local man was in possession of child pornography. Sheriff’s detectives immediately initiated an investigation and subsequently located the suspected offender, identified as Charlie William Wright Jr. , 49, of 334 Beamer Circle, Calhoun. Wright was arrested at… Read more
UPDATED: Traffic moving pretty close to normal speed at 5:10 p.m. Not the news you need to hear while completing last-minute Thanksgiving shopping and preparing for the commute home Tuesday evening. An accident by the CVS store on Turner McCall has northbound traffic backed up as far back as Cooper Street across from McDonald’s… Read more
From the Metro Task Force: On 11/14/19 RFMTF, assisted by Rome/Floyd SWAT, RFMTF K9 Ash and handler PFC Glover, and FCPD K9 Lex and Handler Sgt Hovers executed a search warrant at 108B Hillside which resulted in a recovery of nearly 19lbs of marijuana, 65g of cocaine and two firearms. Darryl Alexis Gibbons Jr was… Read more
A 30-year-old nurse practitioner faces six counts following her arrest Wednesday by an agent from the Rome Floyd Metro Drug Task Force. Jennifer Elyse Holdbrooks was arrested at her home, 20 Green Leaf Trail in Rome, and charged with: Possession of meth with intent to distribute. Possession of meth. Possession of marijuana (misdemeanor) Tampering with… Read more