Floyd County News

Brian Mays looks through the fireworks available in a tent in front of the East Rome Walmart on Thursday.

New data shows that cities in area counties along I-75 were once again the fastest growing from 2007 to 2008.

A Rome man was arrested on two felony charges after police say he allegedly altered a doctora s prescription.

Two movies filmed in Floyd County over the past year are still in production and filmmakers hope they will be released sometime during 2010.

With the automobile population growing by leaps and bounds in Floyd County a half century ago, owners of vehicles met to organize an Automobile Association.

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The Rome Board of Education unanimously voted to fire Rome High math teacher James Rodney Lee on Thursday, three months after he was charged with sexually assaulting a student at the school.

Only seven of 26 pit bulls seized last week in a suspected dog fighting ring have been adopted - 16 will be put to death Wednesday, said Floyd County animal control director Jason Broome.

Animal control officials in Floyd County will euthanize 16 out of 26 pit bulls that were seized from an alleged fighting operation.

A third man has been charged in a suspected dog fighting operation. Kenyatta Kenyon Towers, 34, of 609 Hardy Ave.

A repo man faced a felony charge of hit-and-run Monday night after police say he ran over a woman.

Citizen panel pares list for SPLOST; proposed horse park and regional fairgrounds are among rejected projects A citizens committee made initial cuts Thursday to a list of projects proposed for funding through an extension of the 1-cent special, purpose local option sales tax.

Funerals were set for Saturday for two of the three Georgia National Guard members killed in Afghanistan just over a week ago.

Sgt. Jeffrey Jordan is home. The body of the fallen soldier is now at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home after the military transport arrived at Richard B. Russell Regional Airport around 10:50 a.m. today and then procession traveled down Martha Berry and Turner McCall boulevards.

Two men have been charged with cruelty to animals, and 15 adult pit bulls and six puppies have been impounded after a raid on a residence in Rome.

Georgia lifted tough outdoor water restrictions on Wednesday and declared an end to the drought that has gripped much of the state since late 2007.

The body of Sgt. Jeffrey Jordan, a Cave Spring man who was killed in Afghanistan last week, is scheduled to arrive at Richard B. Russell Regional Airport at 10:46 a.m. Thursday, Coroner Barry Henderson said.

Barry Henderson said the body of Sgt. Jeffrey Jordan won't return to Floyd County until Thursday.

The body of Jeffrey Jordan, a 21-year-old National Guardsman from Cave Spring who died in Afghanistan last week, could return to Rome Wednesday.

The Floyd County Commission is scheduled to hear Tuesday details of an estimated $6 million regional recycling center proposed for funding through an extension of the 1-cent special purpose, local option sales tax.