GA Department of Driver Services (DDS) Receives New Grant Funding Dedicated to Teen Alcohol and Drug Awareness Program (ADAP) Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) Commissioner Spencer R. Moore recently announced the receipt of a grant award of $61,196 for the period October 2023 through September 2024 from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) [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...]
A man convicted of child molestation receives a life sentence, 30 years to serve incarcerated and the remainder on probation. In December, a Bartow County jury found Forty-four-year-old Sean Robert Grooms of Cartersville guilty of aggravated sexual battery and child molestation. He appeared before Judge Rosemary Green Tuesday for sentencing. Meanwhile, Grooms’s attorney said he [read more...]
Baby girl born at 12:56 p.m. on Jan. 1 was first baby delivered at hospital in 2024 Cartersville (Jan. 1, 2024) — Rowan Kaye Henson, 7 lbs., 9 oz., and 19 inches long, was the first baby of the year born at Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center. Proud parents Dakota Blalock and Colby Henson [read more...]
