Faculty and staff at Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) have nominated five of their peer instructors for the Rick Perkins Award of Excellence in Technical Instruction competition.
LaFayette Police discovered three bodies at a North Chattanooga Street residence Sunday, after relatives requested a welfare check.
Pennville Community Church is hosting Pilgrim Ministry Sunday January 30th at the eleven o’clock service. Pilgrim Ministry is a faith based program for men in addiction. The men will give their testimonies and Shane Pauley will be bringing the message. If you have a family member or friend in addiction this will be an opportunity to get information for help.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Tuesday, January 25, 2022:
If you travel on Highway 27 towards Rome during school hours, you may want to make sure that you obey the speed limit in the school zone near Armuchee Elementary School. The Floyd County Board of Education met on Monday and is looking to install speed cameras in the area on Martha Berry Highway (US Highway 27) near the school.
Trion Mayor Lanny Thomas says that the Trion Town Council will be discussing the possibility of a land swap with Chattooga County.
Over the weekend, a Sling Alley, Lyerly man filed a complaint with the sheriff’s office about his neighbor’s horses. The complainant said that sometime overnight between Saturday and Sunday his neighbor’s horses were out and came in his yard. The complainant said that the horses “tore up the front yard with their hooves.” When questioned about the neighbor, the complainant told the deputy that the owner of the horses is currently in Florida. The complainant asked that a complaint be on file at the sheriff’s office about the damage to his yard.
A Harrell Street, Trion woman called the sheriff’s office after she said her landlord kicked in the door of the property she was renting.
Calhoun Police say that a twenty-three-year-old woman followed her ex-husband to a grocery store parking and stabbed him with a butcher knife following a domestic dispute.
Police say that Taylor Lynn Thomas had been arguing with her ex-husband over her refusal to move out of his home following their divorce in January of 2021. Police say that Taylor Thomas opened the door of her ex-husband’s pickup truck in the Calhoun Kroger parking lot and stabbed him with the knife in the back of his right thigh.
The woman had the couple’s children with her at the time of the stabbing, but police said on Monday that they were not sure if the children witnessed the stabbing.
The ex-husband drove himself to his grandparent’s house and was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Taylor Thomas has been charged with aggravated assault.
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Millions of minors under the age of 18 join the U.S. workforce each year – many in the food industry – and the U.S. Department of Labor is working hard to ensure restaurant employers in the Southeast know their legal obligations regarding the employment of minors and to curb a recent increase in noncompliance.