
A thirty-year-old James Street, Summerville man was arrested last week after he got into a fist fight with a Trion man and then attempted to get the victim to lie to police.

A thirty-year-old James Street, Summerville man was arrested last week after he got into a fist fight with a Trion man and then attempted to get the victim to lie to police.

The Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force made three arrests on Monday, including two accused of distributing illegal drugs.

An inmate at the Floyd County Jail is facing charges of interference with government property, unlawful acts of violence in a penal institution, and criminal damage to property following an incident Sunday morning.

A report out this month by a federal committee on pandemic relief oversight detailed the vulnerabilities of state workforce agencies that resulted in more than $39 billion in improper unemployment payments during the first year of the pandemic.

One of the biggest challenges facing Georgia right now is finding more workers. As of this month, there are more people working in the state than ever before. Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler says attracting more workers is Georgia’s biggest challenge.

Investigators for Georgia’s Attorney General shot down former President Donald Trump’s claim that ‘upwards of 5,000’ dead people cast absentee ballots in the key battleground state in 2020, saying the actual numbers was four. One of those cases was in Trion.
Providence Ministries announced in June that they will be opening a new thrift store in Chattooga County at the old Bi-Lo Building in Summerville. Now, they are looking for a store manager.

The Cherokee County, Alabama sheriff’s department says that a woman eluded law enforcement officials on Monday night after officers attempted to stop her in Cherokee County, just south of Menlo.

Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Tuesday, December 28, 2021:

An attempted traffic stop on Jamestown Road just south of Menlo in Cherokee County, Alabama on Monday night, resulted in a police chase that wound up in Chattooga County, Georgia. Reports indicate that Cherokee County deputies attempted to stop the vehicle, but the driver of a 2014 Dodge Avenger took off and at some point reached speeds near 100 miles per hour. The chase went up Highway 48 to Cloudland. Scanner information indicated that the woman driver of the vehicle ditched the car and fled from officers on foot on Mississippi Avenue at Cloudland. WZQZ will have more information on the chase as details become available.