Police and Fire
Resaca man arrested for meth trafficking
A Resaca man was arrested in a joint federal-local operation and charged with trafficking methamphetamine. According to Calhoun Police: Charles Danny Greeson, 48, of 398 Spring Place Road, Resaca,...
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Jarrod Troglin Calhoun man arrested on drugs and weapons charges
A Calhoun man has been arrested and charged with multiple felony charges after sheriff deputies received a drug complaint call from a neighbor Friday night. According to Sheriff Mitch Ralston: De...
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Fred Jason Charles Two locals arrested for possession of meth
Two Calhoun residents have been arrested and charged with possession of methamphetamines. According to Sheriff Mitch Ralston: Deputies received a report of domestic abuse at a home on Baxter Roa...
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Deputies arrest fugitive on interstate 75
In a joint effort with the Georgia State Patrol Post 43, Gordon County Sheriff’s Deputies have put a fugitive behind bars. According to Sheriff Mitch Ralston: A Georgia State Trooper from State...
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Adairsville police arrest three on trafficking charges
Three people were arrested on drug trafficking charges by Adairsville police Monday after an undercover narcotics operation. According to the Adairsville Police Department: James William Montgomer...
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Sheriff s deputies with the money recovered during Sunday s drug bust. Two parolees arrested in Gordon County, charged with meth trafficking
Two people have been arrested, and are currently in the Gordon County jail after a Sunday morning traffic stop. Jimmy D. “Squinch” Gravitt, 60, of 402 Main Street, Cedartown and Evelyn Greene, 49,...
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Man arrested in Gordon County for filing a false report
Gordon County Sheriff’s deputies arrested one man after for filing a false report, Wednesday morning. Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of an armed robbery in the parking lot of the Flying ...
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Atlanta man arrested for identity fraud, bad checks
Fairmount Police arrested an Atlanta man with four counts of identity fraud and two counts of fictitious checks according to Chief Andy Key. Danzell Rashad Wilson, 26, was charged by Lt. Clyde Ch...
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Sheriff's department investigates brother murder- suicide
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View Larger Map Sheriff's department investigates brother murder- suicide The Gordon County law enforcement personnel are investigating a possible murder suicide that occurred...
Police make arrest in arson case
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A Calhoun man has been arrested and charged with arson and burglary in connection with a fire that destroyed a building and seven vehicles, according to the Calhoun Police Department. According t...
Bartow 911 operator accused of ID theft
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The Calhoun Police Department has assisted in the arrest of a Bartow County man accused of identity theft. Law enforcement officials have arrested 26-year-old Terri Hartness, a Bartow County 911 ...
UPDATE: Report: Roman among injured in fatal Kennesaw shooting
by KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press Writer
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The Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting that one of the people injured in a deadly workplace shooting is from Rome. According to the AJC, Joshua B. Holbrook, 27, of Rome is in critical condit...
Update: Deputies arrest 20 after youth center riot
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Twenty juveniles were arrested after a disturbance at the Downing Clark Center in Gordon County, last week. Gordon County deputy sheriffs responded to the report of a disturbance at the facility, ...
Local Homeland Security officer indicted
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A former Department of Homeland Security officer working in Rome has been indicted in federal court on seven charges, but both his attorney and a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office said they ...
Gordon deputies assist in the capture of theft suspect
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During the last couple of weeks local area law enforcement had been on the lookout for an individual that had been suspected or identified in several recent thefts in Whitfield County and in the Ci...
Calhoun PD investigates assault
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Calhoun Police are investigating an assault that took place Monday around 9:00 p.m. According to Calhoun Police: Kit Patrick Hopkins, 38, of Calhoun, remains in the Gordon County Jail on charges...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks about healthcare reform at her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 4, 2010. REUTERS/Jose Luis MaganaAP - House Democratic leaders Thursday abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama's sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week.


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Bishop John Wester, from Salt Lake City, talks to the media outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010, following after a meeting with President Barack Obama to discuss comprehensive immigration reform. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama on Thursday assured immigration advocates frustrated by the wait for a promised overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that he remains committed to fixing a system he has said is broken. What remains unclear is whether Congress will send him a bill this year.


Thu Mar 11 22:09:37 -0600 2010

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2001 file photo, firefighters make their way over the ruins of the World Trade Center through clouds of smoke at ground zero in New York. New York City has agreed to pay up to $657 million to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits filed by ground zero rescue and response workers who say they were sickened by World Trade Center dust. (AP Photo/Stan Honda, Pool)AP - After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to responders sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center.


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