Due to changing winter weather conditions, the Summerville Library will be closing at 6:00 p.m. tonight.
Superintendent Phil Williams has notified AM1180 that ALL TRION Schools will be demising at 1PM today!!!
UPDATE!!
10:50am- UPDATE FROM SUPERINTENDENT JIMMY LENDERMAN
All Chattooga County Schools will close at 11:30 today!
Chattooga County schools are on a two-hour delay today (Tuesday, February 9th).
School busses will be picking up children two hours later than usual this morning.
A total of seven people from Chattooga and Walker counties have been arrested for cashing stolen checks.
According to the Lafayette Police Department the checks were taken from a Lyerly resident and a total of 43 were eventually cashed; the total amount missing from the man’s account was almost $12,000.
The victim told investigators that his step-granddaughter and her boyfriend has paid a visit to his home about the same time the checks went missing.
24 year old Cody Trimble and 19 year old Kelsey Leann Wallin, both of Trion stand charged with Forgery 4th Degree in connection with the case.
According to reports the largest amount taken, with checks totaling almost $9,000, was by 49 year old Charlotte Ann Trimble, also of Trion; she and four other suspects were charged with forgery as well.
Other arrests included 25 year old Rebecca Webb of Chickamauga; 20 year old Sierra Skye Parker of Trion; 43 year old Jesse Jospeh Trammell of Rock Spring and 46 year old Deanna Paige Clark of a Lafayette address.
It appears the majority of the stolen checks were cashed at the Shop Rite in Lafayette.
(WQCH)
On Sunday, Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office Deputies were dispatched to the area of Dot Johnson Road and the railroad tracks in Summerville, in reference to a domestic incident in which there was reportedly a gun.
Upon their arrival at the location, officers were met by a group of individuals stating they’d been shot at, and that two males, one white, one black, were running down the train tracks toward the Trade Day grounds.
The two were spotted moments later near Elder Trailer Park Road on the tracks; both were quickly taken into custody and placed in handcuffs. Officers were told that the gun could be found in a ditch by the side of the railroad tracks – and it was quickly located and taken into evidence.
Witness and victim statements were gathered and it appeared the incident actually started earlier that same day – when threats were allegedly made to “shoot up” the home of one of the victims.
Upon completing written statements both males were transported to the Chattooga County Jail without incident; while at the jail one of those suspects was found to be in possession of a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana.
Charges filed included Aggravated Assault, the Possession of Marijuana less than one ounce and Crossing the Guardline with Contraband.
A spokesman with the State Fire Marshal’s Office will not speculate on what caused a deadly explosion at a Rockmart feed mill on Sunday, however he did say that investigators will be back out at the site Tuesday.
The fire marshal is conducting the investigation along with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
25-year old Justin Deems of Rockmart was killed in the explosion that occurred at around 2:30 a.m. Sunday at the JCG Farms facility on the Rome Road.
Five others were injured, including one worker who was airlifted to Grady Hospital in Atlanta and a second employee who was transferred from Redmond Regional Medical Center in Rome to the burn unit at Cobb-Wellstar in Kennesaw.
(WRGA)
A power outage in West Rome caused at least one traffic light at the intersection of Shorter Avenue and Coosawattee Avenue to fail and left more than 1,000 people in the area without power at around 1:00pm Monday.
The problem was corrected in less than two hours – although no reason has been given for the outage.