Former Woodland High wrestler and current Virginia Tech sophomore Caleb Henson earned a 15-7 bonus-point win over Michigan’s Austin Gomez to win the 149-pound NCAA championship Saturday night in Kansas City. Penn State won the team national championship, while Henson’s Virginia Tech Hokies finished 7th. Henson became the second wrestler in Virginia Tech history to [read more...]
The National Weather Service issued a freeze warning for north and much of central Georgia, including Bartow County, from midnight to ten a.m. The NWS expects the area to experience sub-freezing temperatures from the mid-20s to the lower 30s. Gusty winds, especially before sunrise, will make it feel even colder. Frost and freeze conditions will [read more...]
Cartersville Police booked 64-year-old David Ignacio Rodriguez of Cartersville into the county jail on Monday night for two counts of cruelty to children in the first degree, two counts of child molestation, and two counts of sexual battery. There is no further information.
The Cartersville City Council has brought the city closer to becoming quieter in a good way. During their recent meeting at City Hall, they unanimously approved a recommendation from the public works department on a construction agreement from CSX Transportation to provide labor, materials, technical assistance, and approval necessary to establish a quiet zone at [read more...]
An unknown person broke into seven trucks at the Stamp Creek Boat Ramp off Wilderness Camp Road south of White between 6:46 a.m. and 12:32 p.m. on Saturday. The perpetrator appeared to be only looking for firearms, as the person stole four guns but left other items of value. The damages on the trucks were [read more...]
The City of Adairsville reports that a large amount of rain in a short time caused the North Wastewater Treatment Plant to be hydraulically overloaded and spill about 7,200 gallons of wastewater into an unnamed tributary that goes to Oothkalooga Creek on Friday afternoon at around 4:07. They corrected the problem by 4:30. Adairsville Wastewater [read more...]
After 130 years of service, Young Brothers Pharmacy, located at the corner of West Main Street and the railroad tracks by South Museum Drive in Cartersville, will permanently close its pharmacy department tonight at six o'clock. All of their prescription records will automatically be available at Kroger's pharmacy in the Main Street Market Place off [read more...]
Cartersville Police arrested a man after he struck a car and a house with a dump truck and fled on foot. At around 8:30 Sunday night, a dump truck hit four mailboxes and a gray Toyota Camry on Douglas Street between Howard Street and McEver Street, a mailbox on the southwest corner of North Gilmer [read more...]
83-year-old Carl Lewis Tidwell of Cartersville turned himself into the Bartow County Jail on Monday morning for homicide by vehicle in the second degree, driving on the wrong side of the roadway, following too closely, and not using a safety belt in a passenger vehicle. On the morning of September 6th, Tidwell's white GMC Sierra [read more...]
A motorcyclist who died in a collision with a school bus last week was fleeing law enforcement. On January 29th, at around four p.m., two Bartow County deputies patrolled Clubview Drive at Country Club Drive in Cartersville. They observed a sports bike traveling south on Clubview Drive, with 26-year-old Demario Calhoun of Canton standing on [read more...]
