Rome Police responded to a shooting Thursday morning at Sam’s Food Mart at 1944 Shorter Avenue in West Rome.
MRS. ETTA MAE WILLIAMS THOMPSON – AGE 79, – of Summerville, Georgia passed away on Wednesday, July 27, 2022. She was born on August 28, 1942 to the late James and Carrie Ware Williams. She was preceded by her sister, Minnie Lawrence, son, Jackie Williams,
The Trion Town Council will hold their regular monthly meeting for July this evening at 6 PM at Trion Town Hall. The public is invited to attend. You can see the complete agenda for tonight’s meeting below:
The Chattooga County Board of Education held a called meeting on Wednesday evening to discuss the millage rate for Chattooga County property owners.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Thursday, July 28, 2022
Chattooga County deputies responded to a 911 call to the Lyerly Drive Thru on Tuesday morning around 4:30 AM. An employee at the drive thru said that a man was walking around the building beating on the doors and windows and demanding food. The employee went to the gas station nearby and called 911. When deputies arrived on the scene, they found Billy Dewayne Tapp. Tapp had a clear bag of suspected methamphetamine in his possession when he was found at the gas station near the drive-thru restaurant. Tapp was arrested and transported to the Chattooga County Jail on charges of possession of methamphetamine.
Atrium Health Floyd celebrates its 80th anniversary as a hospital and its first anniversary as a member of the Atrium Health family this July.
A Summerville woman reported a dog bite last week after she went to her cousin’s house to get a cigarettes. According to a report released yesterday, Kayla Pierce told a responding deputy that she had gone to her cousin’s house on Roberts Street and when she came into the yard, a black and white border collie bit her on the calf of the leg. A responding deputy spoke with the woman’s cousin, Stephenson Pierce, he told the deputy that he had put the dog in a cage after it bit his cousin. Animal control was called to the scene and took the dog to be quarantined for ten days, which is standard policy.
Over the past weekend, a Chattooga County man was arrested in LaFayette after police found he had an active arrant and then found him to be in possession of drugs. According to reports, officers in LaFayette stopped thirty-six-year-old Zachary Alexander Rosser of Trion for driving on an expired tag. Police found that Rosser had an active warrant in Chattooga County. They then discovered that Rosser had syringes in his pocket. Rosser then told police that he had “dope hidden in his crotch”. Rosser was arrested and charged with drug possession and was booked into the Walker County Jail on Saturday.
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This week, a judge in Atlanta rejected an appeal from voters in the 14th Congressional District who had sought to have U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene removed from the General Election ballot in November.