Bartow County News

A tip led to the arrest of a Marietta man who allegedly grew 39 marijuana plants near a park in the Bartow County city of White, just outside Cartersville.

A Clarke County judge rejected a petition from the man accused of running over Emily Bowman in an Athens hit-and-run accident to remove his ankle monitor and leave Oconee County.

An Acworth woman who said she had to hit her son to calm him down was arrested by Bartow County authorities Saturday.

Updated 5 p.m. The owner of the 2003 Ford Windstar that was burned down to its frame told authorities she was driving northbound on Interstate 75 about 5 p.m. when the vehicle started having mechanical problems, according to the Bartow County Sheriff's Office report, attached.

Editor's Note: The video clip above contains explicit language. Bartow County Sheriff's Office provided this recording of the call Marty Corbitt made to 911 on Wednesday as his neighbor, Phillip Rodger Bennett, 58, allegedly set Corbitt's 18 Boatner Avenue home on fire.

An Acworth couple is facing drug possession charges after police say the pair had medication not prescribed to them that they intended to sell, following an arrest at their home Friday.

The people listed on the Bartow County jail's intake report were arrested and booked into the jail but are not convicted, therefore are presumed innocent until the court system settles their cases.

A shoplifting suspect who abandoned a 5-year-old boy getting away from loss prevention officers looked like a woman, but may have, in fact, been a man.

The Rome Exchange Club donated a new rocking chair to the Neo-Natal Intensive Care unit at Floyd Medical Center on Friday.

PHILLIP Roger Bennett, 58, was so upset by his neighbours' apparent reluctance to mow their lawn in Bartow County, Georgia, that he set fire to their house.

The search for a man accused of setting his neighbor's house on fire with a 3-year-old child inside came to an end Thursday.

A helicopter is expected to swoop around Myrtle Hill Cemetery today as part of the filming for "Need for Speed," a motion picture being shot this week in Floyd and Bartow counties.

Four area officials graduated earlier this month from the 2013 Georgia Academy for Economic Development.

The people listed on the Bartow County jail's intake report were arrested and booked into the jail but are not convicted, therefore are presumed innocent until the court system settles their cases.

John McDonald, shows a photo of the devastation that occurred in Adairsville, during a course that informed the community about GEMINI, a first responders strike team for the deaf and hearing impaired during a disaster.

Cartersville's Booth Western Art Museum is opening its annual Artists' Guild Exhibition today in the Borderlands Gallery.

A couple of police reports chronicling alleged criminal incidents in Cartersville and Bartow County in the last day or so caught our eyes at Cartersville Patch .

The people listed on the Bartow County jail's intake report were arrested and booked into the jail but are not convicted, therefore are presumed innocent until the court system settles their cases.

The following information - names, photos, addresses, charges and other details - was taken directly from Bartow County Sheriff's Office jail records.

The following information - names, photos, addresses, charges and other details - was taken directly from Bartow County Sheriff's Office jail records.