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...

Clinic workers hold signs and chant during a rally in support of US President Barack Obama's health care reform package in Oakland, California, on March 17. US President Barack Obama on Thursday scrapped a planned trip to Asia in favor of making an 11th-hour drive to see his historic health care overhaul through a cliffhanger Sunday vote.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AP - President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders lobbied intensively for historic health care legislation Friday, striving to resolve a last-minute dispute over Medicare while gaining another precious "yes" 48 hours ahead of a climactic vote.


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President Barack Obama delivers remarks on health insurance reform during his event at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., Friday, March 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama described the stakes of this weekend's health care vote in stark terms Friday, using words uttered so rarely out of the White House that they seem all but banned: "If this vote fails."


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A man walks through the rubble of a building belonging to the former Iraqi army, and destroyed during the air campaign in the early stages of the war, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 19, 2010. Almost seven years after the first bombs  fell in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and hope. (AP Photo / Khalid Mohammed)AP - Seven years after the first bombs in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and hope.


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