Bartow County Coroner Joel Guyton confirmed that 26-year-old Demario Calhoun of Canton died in an accident between his motorcycle and a Bartow County school bus carrying five high school students on Monday afternoon. According to crash debris and witness statements, at around 4:14, a Kawasaki Ninja and the bus were traveling east on Gilreath Road [read more...]
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger presented an “Eagle Award for Election Excellence” to Bartow County Elections at their office on Joe Frank Harris Parkway and Oak Hill Circle near Cartersville this morning. Election Supervisor Joseph Kirk accepted the award on behalf of his office. We’ll have more on this story during our local newscasts [read more...]
We have learned that 21-year-old Simon Anthony Carter is the suspect in last week's crime. Bartow County deputies responded to Taylor and Son's neighborhood store on U.S. 411 and Pine Log Road in the Rydal area on January 5th about an armed robbery in progress. Dispatch advised that the suspect had left the store and [read more...]
Executive Director, Adam Wade (left) and Director of Development, Amanda Tadajewski (right), survey the expansion area on the front lawn of Tellus Tellus Science Museum is happy to announce an expansion project for two new exhibit spaces beginning in early 2024. The expansion will consist of a detached, nearly 20,000-square-foot building near the [read more...]
Recently, we reported on the booking of 66-year-old Terry Ray McMahan of Dallas into the Bartow County Jail on December 22nd for 79 warrants from July 2nd, 2021, to August 4th, 2023 - one for theft by deception, 71 for forgery in the first degree, and seven for identity fraud. We have since then learned [read more...]
A Bartow County School bus driver was traveling on Cass Pine Log Road on Tuesday morning when she observed a fallen tree obstructing the roadway. The driver reacted, attempted to steer around the obstruction, and lost control whenever she over-corrected, causing the bus to overturn onto its left side. The school bus driver was the [read more...]
Bartow County deputies responded to Taylor and Son's neighborhood store on U.S. 411 and Pine Log Road in the Rydal area on Friday morning about an armed robbery in progress. Dispatch advised that the suspect had left the store and was traveling in an unknown direction in a Chevrolet C-10 truck with a white hood [read more...]
A person was seriously hurt in an accident in Bartow County early Friday morning. Georgia State Troopers responded to a crash on I-75 southbound just past the Allatoona Gateway exit near Acworth that shut down all lanes, causing a traffic backup to almost the Main Street exit in Cartersville. They discovered that a parked tractor-trailer [read more...]
A high-speed chase that started in Cartersville Saturday afternoon ended in Gordon County. The manager of Academy Sports off East Main Street near Joe Frank Harris Parkway had eyes on a black male with dreads known to attempt to pass counterfeit bills. Upon arrival, an officer observed a suspect wearing black sweatpants with a yellow [read more...]
There was an increased law enforcement presence at Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center on Thursday night at around eight o'clock due to a suspicious call. An anonymous caller reportedly told a hospital employee that a black male had done something nearby and was on his way to the hospital armed, then hung up the phone. Security [read more...]
