-Staff reports- If you like barbecue, the Rome Civic Center on Jackson Hill is the place to be on Monday. For nearly six decades, the Knights of Columbus of St. Mary's Catholic Church have crafted Rome's best barbecue for thousands of families with proceeds benefiting Northwest Georgia charities. This Labor Day, Sept. ...

-News Release- Last week, U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) called for a statewide moratorium on all data center construction after visiting the proposed site of OpenAI's new 3.2-gigawatt data center in Effingham County. Ahead of this announcement, the Senator met with several residents who raised serious co...

-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 at Shorter Avenue Baptist Church on August 8. The kittens were three to four weeks old and were left in a cardboard box.

-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. According to the warrants: 21-year-old Maynor Alberto Lopez-Xiloj and 17-year-old Dennis Pedro Lopez-Xiloj were passengers...

-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 the current outbreak. This outbreak is associated with a daycare setting in the metro Atlanta area; the children were eit...