Category Archives: Local News

-Floyd County Jail records- A Rome woman has been arrested on a misdemeanor charge of animal abandonment. According to the arrest warrant: 23-year-old Itzel Guadalupe Reyes-Cruz abandoned 17 kittens a...

-Floyd County Jail records- Two charged with theft by receiving a stolen motor vehicle Two West Rome men have been arrested on felony warrants charging them with theft by receiving stolen property. Ac...

-News Release- The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) has confirmed three additional measles cases associated with the measles case confirmed August 18, for a total of 8 cases associated with t...

-Nolan Hiott, WRGA- https://youtu.be/l2QTjq9ulsY The last First Friday event took place in Downtown Rome on Friday, where the 200 block was full of concert-goers.   Featuring the band, "Guardians...

-Staff reports- The final First Friday concert of the season will be a block party. Guardians of the Jukebox will be performing some of the biggest hits of the 1980s. The show starts at 7, but the par...

-Staff reports- A new professional arena football team is coming to Rome. The team will officially be unveiled during a news conference on Tuesday, September 8 at 10:30 a.m. at the Forum River Center....

-Floyd County Jail records- A Rome woman was arrested on Wednesday at her Moran Lake Road home on a felony warrant charging her with theft by shoplifting. According to the warrant: 49-year-old Chrissi...

-Floyd County Jail records- Man accused of threatening clerk at liquor store An East Rome man is accused of threatening and assaulting an employee at a liquor store on East Second Avenue. According to...

-Staff reports- One person was killed and another seriously injured in a wreck on Blacks Bluff Road near the Alabama State Line on Wednesday. According to the Floyd County Police report: A 2012 Dodge ...

-Georgia Department of Public Safety- Thousands of Georgians are expected to travel this Labor Day weekend as summer comes to an unofficial close. The Georgia Department of Public Safety (DPS) reminds...