Resaca News

From Staff Reports A 17-year-old Resaca man is in the Gordon County Jail charged with murder in the death of a 19-year-old Calhoun man.

Here are the levels of local rivers and creeks as of 10 a.m. Wednesday, as reported by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City: Oostanaula River at Resaca was at 20.73 feet.

Its been raining steadily in Gordon County since last night, with 2.58 inches recorded at the Northwest Georgia Experiment Station since Monday.

With only one night to go before the 365th day of 2008, area residents were willing to talk Tuesday about their plans for New Year's Eve.

A Dalton woman was killed on Wednesday in Gordon County when three vehicles collided in Resaca.

* Jose Molina, 17, 1408 Murray Ave., Dalton, was charged Thursday by the Dalton Police Department with burglary, possession of tools for the commission of crime, wearing a mask or device which conceals identity ...

Resaca was recently certified as a qualified local government by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, making the town eligible to share in Local Option Sales tax Revenue.

The December Gordon County School Board of Education meeting held many gifts and well wishes to mark the season.

Almost 2 inches of rain has fallen in Gordon County over the past 24 hours, according to the Northwest Georgia Experiment Station.

* Jose Santos Isaola, 18, 333 Emerald Parkway, Chatsworth, was charged Monday by the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office with cocaine trafficking, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, possession of ...

A Dalton public school and two Whitfield County public schools are named by USA Today as being in the top 1 percent of schools nationwide where students are breathing toxic air, but a local company named in the ...

The Gordon County Commission voted Tuesday to participate in a Neighborhood Stabilization Program, making it eligible $496,263 of grant money.

* William Gerald Downing, 51, 3999 Ashley Brook Road, Resaca, was charged Tuesday by the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office with DUI , driving while license withdrawn , habitual violator and failure to drive ...

* Jose Jesus Ramirez, 22, 30 Wheat St., Chatsworth, was charged Friday by the Murray County Sheriff's Office with DUI, improper tag display and open container in vehicle.

From Staff Reports A 19-year-old who is walking across America barefoot to raise awareness of Soles 4 Souls , an organization devoted to sending shoes around the world to those in need, recently spent the night ...

Glen Douglas Garland, 26, of 547 Brown Farm Road in Calhoun, and Brian Lamar Gilbert, 20, of 888 Nicholsville Road in Resaca, were arrested by Floyd County police around 11 a.m. after officers were dispatched ...

The nation will begin celebrating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War in 2011, and John Culpepper, chairman of the Georgia Civil War Commission, says the multi-year celebration could provide a big economic ...

The Resaca City Council saluted its veterans at Tuesday nights regular meeting by refusing to write a letter of support to name the post office after Marine Lance Corporal Kristopher Cody Warren, who was killed ...

State officials broke ground on a new historic site and information center at the Resaca battlefield this weekend.

Project will be gateway to Georgia's Civil War history 10/28/08 Email this story to a friend Dignitaries prepare to break ground for the Resaca Battlefield Visitors Center.