Cartersville Airport will be awarded $2.73 million to improve a runway safety area. Grants are part of a total $485 million in federal airport infrastructure grantsPress Release: ATLANTA, GA – Five Georgia airports are expected to be recipients of U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Airport Improvement Program grants, according to an announcement by USDOT Secretary Elaine L. [...]
A man was taken to Floyd Medical Center following a high speed chase. According to Trooper Richard Holman with Georgia State Patrol, the Adairsville Police Department’s license plate readers identified the vehicle as stolen. Bartow Sheriff’s Deputies became involved in the chase on Highway 293 heading towards Cartersville. Following a Pitt maneuver, the vehicle left [...]
Atlanta, Dec. 5, 2019 – Justice Robert Benham announced today that he will resign from the Supreme Court of Georgia effective March 1, 2020 – before his current six-year term ends a year from now. In making this decision, he has acknowledged that a number of candidates have announced preparations to run for his seat [...]
Four Woodland High School students were involved in a single-car crash near the high school around 7:50 Wednesday morning. According to Georgia State Patrol Reports, a Honda Accord was traveling east on Old Alabama Road and went off the roadway, striking a concrete culvert. There were four teenage occupants in the vehicle and all four [...]
Stock Photo Press Release ATLANTA –Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) contractors will implement a traffic shift in conjunction with the ongoing rehabilitation of the I-75 southbound Bridge over Barrett Parkway in Cobb County. Weather permitting, on Wednesday, December 4, crews will shift three through lanes on I-75 southbound to the right for temporary striping. [...]
Press Release: BARTOW COUNTY, Ga. (December 2, 2019) – Euharlee Elementary School earns Reward School designation from the Georgia Department of Education and joins the top 5% of greatest-improving Title I schools statewide based on 2018-2019 data! The recognition comes under the leadership of former Euharlee Elementary School Principal Dr. Sharon Collum, who currently oversees [...]
The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes 2019 playoff run came to an end on Friday night following a thrilling 31-28 win by Woodward Academy. Cartersville scored on its opening drive, though it came with its own theatrics. Tee Webb recovered a Devonte Ross fumble and on the next play threw a 63-yard touchdown to Ross. After the [...]
Terry Lee Waits A Bartow County deputy was dispatched to a residence on Shake Rag Circle near Adairsville Tuesday afternoon in reference to a male shooting a gun at two subjects trying to make a delivery. Upon arrival, the two subjects were hiding behind their box truck. They said the male next door went outside [...]
Jarrell Rashaud Young Cartersville Police arrested 28-year-old Jarrell Rashaud Young of Rockmart and booked him into the Bartow County Jail Tuesday afternoon for cruelty to children in the first degree for willfully depriving a child of necessary sustenance to the extent that the child's health or well-being is jeopardized, cruelty to children in the first [...]
Tabori Talley Jervontay Cameron One man was charged with armed robbery and the other was charged with probation violation. According to a press release from the Cartersville Police Department, the incident occurred on Tuesday morning at approximately 9:58 a.m. The alleged suspect, Tabori Talley of Mountain Chase Drive, Cartersville entered the Marathon Gas Station at [...]
