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A Buchanan man was injured Wednesday after several teenagers assaulted him. According to reports, 19 year old Jesse Lee Hicks of Buchanan was waiting to pick up a female friend from an Olive Street address, when three juveniles came to the home and verbally confronted him and then began toContinue Reading

More details have been released regarding a middle school teacher in Paulding County accused of molesting a 14 year old male student. According to the Paulding County School District, 40 year old Shanna Detweiler, a science teacher at Austin Middle School in Dallas, is charged with child molestation and sexualContinue Reading

A Bartow County 911 dispatcher has been arrested on theft charges. According to officials, 26 year old Terri Hartness is under arrest and charged with one count of felony computer theft. Investigators from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation also say that 24 year old Timothy Allen Keown was also arrestedContinue Reading

A missing teenager from Bartow County has returned to her home. According to reports, 16 year old Kaylyn Watters finally returned home after being gone for over a month. Bartow County Sheriff’s Office officials say that Watters returned on Monday after running away with her boyfriend. There had been severalContinue Reading

Officials from the city water department tell WGAA that a section of West John Hand Road will be closed to through traffic until early Wednesday morning. The closure affects an area from Cave Spring Road to the west end of College Circle. Motorists will need to drive around College CircleContinue Reading

A fuel pump at an area convenience store was struck and dislodged from its base early Monday afternoon. According to reports, Polk 911 received the initial call at around 3:25 p.m. Monday and both Cedartown Fire and Police were dispatched to the Fleet convenience store on East Avenue in Cedartown.Continue Reading

Nearly one hundred people participated in Monday afternoon’s Martin Luther King Day march in Cedartown. This was the fifth annual event and unlike in years past, the march went south from the courthouse to Cedar Springs Baptist Church in case of inclement weather. Marchers began their trek down Main StreetContinue Reading

A couple of weekend wrecks has sent a person to an Atlanta area hospital via LifeFlight helicopter. According to the Georgia State Patrol, the wreck occurred on Taylorsville Road in the Rockmart area. The initial call to 911 came in on Sunday. It was confirmed that a woman drove herContinue Reading

Three area men are under arrest charged with arson related to a structure fire on Hightower Rd. According to Polk County Police, 25 year old Robert Allen Brooks of 470 Cason Rd. in Cedartown, 32 year old David Slade of a North Broad St. address in Rome, and James SladeContinue Reading