Rome News

Rome police are investigating their third armed robbery in less than two weeks. It's unknown whether Monday night's robbery at an Aubie Lane home is connected to two earlier hold-ups in South Rome that occurred May 12 and Friday, respectively.

Two area Boys Scouts received their Eagle Scout awards during a ceremony Tuesday night at Rome's First United Methodist Church.

ROME, Ga. The Berry Farms Angus Beef will have a sale from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Lavender Mountain Hardware in Rome.

The task of forming a list of possible projects to be funded by a 1-cent special purpose, local option sales tax begins this week.

A woman was taken to a Rome hospital Tuesday afternoon after the car she was driving struck a utility pole head-on, according to Floyd County police.

Rome police are investigating the theft of nearly $8,000 in electronic items from a Davis Street residence, according to a Rome police report.

Police said a Rome teenager took a television from a Graham Street residence and was in possession of another stolen television set, according to Floyd County Jail reports.

A Honda Accord was involved in a wreck with a motorcycle Monday afternoon in front of CVS Pharmacy on Martha Berry Boulevard.

Fog blanketed much of Georgia in the wake of storms that washed out roads in the northeast part of the state and led to rising streams and rivers.

A Rome man is celebrating a win from the Georgia Lottery. Sam Adkins, 56, won a $129,124 jackpot prize playing Fantasy 5. Adkins matched all five winning numbers from the April 30 drawing.

The turning point: The Braves took a 1-0 lead in the first inning and never looked back.

Corey Higginbotham of Silver Creek is presented with a $1,000 trip voucher by Sandra Kerr, donor recruiter for Blood Assurance.

Property adjacent to the South Rome Community Association building, 607 Pennington Ave., has been chosen as the site for the new South Rome Community Garden.

The 8th Regiment Band of Rome will perform Canada as part of the 22nd annual Canadian International Military Tattoo.

Spectators at the sixth annual Rome River Jam music festival at Ridge Ferry Park kept Rome police busy Saturday.

Police discovered Sunday that a Maple Street building had been broken into, according to Rome police reports.

As presented in the Fifty Years Ago column in the Thursday, May 23, 1963, edition of the Rome News-Tribune Rome arrived at a proud distinction Wednesday fifty years ago when motorcycle cops made their debut.

Some new storms have brought more rain to Rome and Floyd County as well as some new problems.

A good deluge of rain can lead to more than just the possibility of minor flooding along the rivers of Rome and Floyd County.

Police believe two men who have held up the same convenience store twice in two months live in the neighborhood and someone knows who they are.