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Defendant Caused Tax Loss in Excess of $9.5 million A Georgia man pleaded guilty today to seeking to obstruct the IRS in its efforts to collect employment taxes and related penalties. According to court documents [read more...]

Law enforcement arrested 26 individuals, including two from Bartow County, over eleven days in a statewide child exploitation operation named “Operation Sneaky Peach.” The Georgia Bureau of Investigation Child Exploitation and Computer Crimes Unit and [read more...]

BARTOW COUNTY, Ga. (August 30, 2023) – College Board’s newly released Advanced Placement Scholar Roster includes 193 Bartow County School System students earning 236 awards – the highest numbers ever recorded in Bartow County! College [read more...]

Switch Limited, a technology infrastructure ecosystem corporation based in Las Vegas, Nevada, filed a Development of Regional Impact application with the Georgia Department of Community Affairs on Tuesday for a proposed 126-acre facility south of [read more...]

A Rome man charged with murder receives a life sentence in Bartow Superior Court.  Forty-three-year-old Shannon Vashawn Tapley pleaded guilty to malice murder, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, and concealing the death of another.  Two felony [read more...]

CARTERSVILLE, GA:  The Bartow County Health Department, 5355 Covenant Drive, Cartersville, is now offering flu vaccines on both a walk-in and appointment basis, according to Bartow County Health Department Nurse Manager Cyndi Carter.   “We [read more...]

This is the final list of local residents qualifying for political office for local municipalities.  We will speak with the candidates facing opposition as we get closer to the November 7, 2023 election.     [read more...]

Advocates for Children is opening a new center to better tackle the escalating issue of child abuse head-on. “Georgia records about 127,000 cases of child abuse a year and land at the bottom of all [read more...]

According to reports from Bartow Fire and Emergency Services, 8/25/2023 – At approximately 11:56 p.m., Bartow County Fire & Emergency Services were dispatched to 937 Euharlee Road S.W. Cartersville to a report of a residential [read more...]

  (ATLANTA, GA) – As summer comes to an end and thousands of Georgians hit the road to celebrate the Labor Day holiday, the Georgia Department of Public Safety reminds motorists that Georgia State Patrol (GSP) [read more...]

Bartow County deputies responded to an armed robbery at Budgetel Inn on Carson Loop off Cassville White Road on Wednesday afternoon. The complainant advised that a black female who cleans at a few of his [read more...]

We have more information about the arrest of 71-year-old Robert Edward Dillen. Bartow County deputies went to his residence on the northeast corner of Sugar Valley Road and Laurel Drive west of Cartersville on Tuesday [read more...]

Stay Cool, Stay Hydrated, Stay Informed   ATLANTA – With temperatures expected to be in the high 90’s throughout the state for the next several days, and at times feeling like more than 100 degrees with [read more...]

A Bartow County resident charged with numerous counts of child molestation was released on bond this year.  He is now back in jail, charged with more crimes against children.  According to Bartow County Sheriff’s Office [read more...]

DALTON, Georgia – August 21, 2023 – Highland Rivers Behavioral Health will host a community symposium on veteran suicide prevention Wednesday, September 13, at the Chattahoochee Technical College North Metro campus, 5198 Ross Rd., in [read more...]

Vaccination is still the best protection for Georgians ATLANTA – While the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) is seeing an uptick in new COVID cases and hospitalizations related to COVID, the numbers remain relatively [read more...]

A jury awards a woman $6.5 million in a civil suit against Georgia Bone and Joint Surgeons. The jury ruled in favor of Margaret Britt Keel; Jay Sadd and Scott Slappy represented her in the [read more...]

Georgia State Patrol troopers from Post 3 in Cartersville and Post 43 in Calhoun went to I-75 southbound near mile marker 308 on Thursday morning around 7:30 to a multiple-vehicle crash. They found 21-year-old Brandon [read more...]

The Capitol Beat News Service reports that the Georgia Supreme Court Wednesday removed suspended Judge Christian Coomer from the state Court of Appeals. In a unanimous decision, the justices upheld the recommendation of a state [read more...]

 Adairsville, GA (August 9, 2023) – The GBI is investigating an officer-involved shooting in Adairsville, GA. The Adairsville Police Department requested the GBI conduct an independent investigation. One man was shot and is in critical condition. No officers were injured.   Preliminary [read more...]

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (Aug. 8, 2023) – As the 2023-2024 school year gets underway, many area high schools will have extra funds on hand thanks to Blood Assurance. The community blood center announced that through its [read more...]

August 7, 2023   ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) recently concluded an internal audit, which uncovered $105,170,128.20 in unremitted funds that began accumulating in fiscal year 2014 under the leadership of former [read more...]