A fatal accident on U.S. 411 brought traffic to a standstill on Wednesday afternoon. At approximately 5:21 p.m., a black Hyundai Veloster traveled west on U.S. 411 in the left lane at high speed approaching Macedonia Road. The driver of a vehicle ahead observed the Hyundai coming at a high rate of speed. The driver [...]
A Bartow County deputy arrested a woman in Emerson after an irate dispute in the parking lot of Hobby Lobby at 180 Market Square in Cartersville on April 5th. A complainant stated she saw 56-year-old Susan Denise Abels of Indianapolis, Indiana leave her shopping cart on the sidewalk. The cart rolled into the passenger side [...]
Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King announced today the identities of the two people killed in a Bartow County Fire. The fire occurred at 170 Oak Leaf Drive SW in Cartersville around 7:02 p.m. on Sunday, April 4. The fire destroyed the 1,700-square-foot structure, which was approximately 35 years old. Two residents, [...]
As of 2:50 Monday afternoon, the Georgia Department of Public Health has reported 10,922 COVID-19 confirmed cases in Bartow County, ten more than yesterday’s updated total. They also reported Bartow County had 784 hospitalizations and 201 confirmed deaths. That is no verified deaths since Thursday. The public health department also reports 856,340 confirmed cases of [...]
On Wednesday, the National Weather Service confirmed an EF1 tornado briefly touched down in Cartersville on Thursday, March 25th. They reported the tornado had an estimated peak wind of 95 miles per hour. The path was 2.85 miles long and 200 yards wide and lasted about five minutes. The tornado first touched down as it [...]
Sok Sun Yun Erica Kim Vida Cartersville Police has been conducting an investigation involving suspected prostitution at the Body Rub at 1145 North Tennessee Street. That investigation resulted in two arrests on Wednesday – 61-year-old Sok Sun Yun of Kennesaw, and 56-year-old Erica Kim Vida received charges for massage without a [...]
Khyan Bernard Stalling Cartersville Police arrested a Lithonia man and detained five juveniles after a short vehicle chase on March 29th. Dispatchers issued an all-points bulletin on a stolen Chevrolet Malibu traveling north on I-75. Dispatch alerted Cartersville police that the car exited onto East Main Street and went into the Circle K [...]
On Tuesday night, the National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado briefly touched down during the evening of Thursday, March 25th, on the northwest side of Taylorsville in southern Bartow County. They rated the tornado as an EF1 with an estimated peak wind of 95 miles per hour. The path was 1.68 miles long and [...]
As of 2:50 Sunday afternoon, the Georgia Department of Public Health has reported 10,806 COVID-19 confirmed cases in Bartow County, nine more than yesterday’s updated total. They also reported Bartow County had 778 hospitalizations and 200 confirmed deaths. That is no hospitalizations nor deaths since yesterday’s updated total. The public health department also reports 849,607 [...]
As of 2:50 Saturday afternoon, the Georgia Department of Public Health has reported 10,797 COVID-19 confirmed cases in Bartow County, 15 more than yesterday’s updated total. They also reported Bartow County had 778 hospitalizations and 200 confirmed deaths. That is three more hospitalizations and two deaths since yesterday’s updated total. The public health department also [...]