Category Archives: Local News

-WBHF Radio- A manufacturing plant located in White has announced the layoff of more than half of its employees. According to a WARN notice from the Georgia Department of Labor. Constellium Automotive...

-Staff reports- Although there have been few black bear sightings in our immediate area this spring, there have been some bear sightings in metro-Atlanta. David Gregory with the Georgia Department of ...

-Rome City Schools- On Friday morning, a Rome City Schools bus transporting students to summer activities was involved in a minor accident near West End Elementary School. There were no injuries, and ...

-Georgia Department of Transportation- Another traffic note for today if you are going to be traveling in Bartow County...... Weather permitting, crews will shift traffic to a new configuration that w...

-Floyd County Jail records- Man accused of assaulting woman A Rome man has been arrested on a felony warrant charging him with aggravated assault. According to the warrant: 43-year-old Stevie Ronald M...

-Floyd County Jail records- A homeless man has been charged with malice murder and felony murder in the beating death of a 58-year old Rome woman at her Etowah Terrace apartment last month. According ...

-David Crowder, WRGA News- As the 2026 Bike Ride Across Georgia pedals on, local officials are happy with the event that rolled into Rome and Cave Spring earlier this week. Around 1,000 cyclists spent...

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 -Bill Crane- Entering the September of my years as Frank Sinatra sings, or the 4th quarter of life as some others have less charitably put it, reminds one of the importance of ta...

-Floyd County Jail records- Woman accused of assaulting, threatening parents A West Rome woman was arrested on Monday at her John Davenport Drive residence on charges of aggravated assault and 1st-deg...

-David Crowder, WRGA News- The Rome-Floyd County Planning Commission will hear an annexation request for a convenience store when it meets on Thursday. The property at 203 Burnett Ferry Road is curren...