Category Archives: Local News

-News Release- Holly Avidan could have let her cancer diagnosis stop her world. Instead, she chose for it to be a catalyst for artistic creativity, healing, and resilience. When Avidan was diagnosed w...

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 -Bill Crane- Roughly 30 percent of U.S. voters cast their ballots by mail. In states where this is the standard, like Oregon, which uses entirely mail-in balloting, it is c...

-Floyd County Jail records- Two charged with child cruelty Two Rome residents were arrested on Monday on three counts of 1st-degree cruelty to children. According to Floyd County Jail records: 37-year...

-GBI News Release- The GBI has arrested and charged former Emerson Police Department Officer Anthony Trapani, age 32, of Rockmart, GA, with two counts of Misuse of a License Plate Reader System and Vi...

-News Release- Rome High School senior Isha Garg has been named a National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist. Garg is one of more than 16,000 semifinalists from across the country selected for the 72nd N...

-News Release- The Associated General Contractors of Georgia (AGC Georgia) is proud to announce the dates for the 2026 Skills Challenge Series, a premier workforce development event designed to showca...

-David Crowdert, WRGA News- An incident involving a world-renowned opera singer that occurred in Rome in 1942 is still evoking raw emotions 84 years later. That incident involved Roland Hayes and his ...

-David Crowder, WRGA News- The Rome City Commission has approved a resolution regarding the Burwell Creek Area Plan. The plan has been prepared to document existing conditions, identify community asse...

-News Release- The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) has confirmed two additional measles cases associated with the outbreak at a metro Atlanta daycare. This brings the outbreak total to 10 ca...

-Floyd County Jail records- Texas man accused of leading police on a chase in Downtown Rome A Texas man was jailed after allegedly fleeing from Rome Police in Downtown Rome on Saturday evening. Accord...