Two people remain hospitalized after Friday night’s freak accident in Rockmart when an elderly man hit four pedestrians and several cars following a downtown fireworks display. According to Rockmart Police Chief Keith Sorrells, a 76-year-old man got into his pickup truck in the parking lot next to the former UnitedContinue Reading

Georgia State Patrol officials were in town Thursday, meeting with Cedartown Police as the investigation continues into the tragic single vehicle accident that claimed the life of Cedartown High School senior Karina Macedo. Additional details on what actually happened in the accident should be finalized and released sometime early nextContinue Reading

Students, faculty, and staff at Cedartown High School are mourning the loss of one of their own as a 17-year-old senior student died in a car accident Tuesday morning. According to Cedartown Police Chief Jamie Newsome, Karina Macedo was pronounced dead at Polk Medical Center shortly after the single-vehicle wreckContinue Reading

PRESS RELEASE Cedartown, Ga. – September 2, 2014: The name of the teenager killed in an early morning car crash Tuesday has been released. Karina Macedo, a Cedartown High School senior, died from injuries sustained in the single-car accident. Her name was being withheld earlier this morning out of respect for family, according to CedartownContinue Reading

UPDATED: 10:52 a.m. – Sep 2, 2014 Cedartown Police Chief Jamie Newsome confirms to WGAA News that a 17-year-old female student at Cedartown High School was killed in this morning’s fatal wreck on Collard Valley Road. She was a passenger in a vehicle with two other male students who wereContinue Reading