Former Chattooga County Sheriff and Georgia Emergency Management Agency Director Gary McConnell was the featured speaker earlier this month at Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s Basic Law Enforcement graduation exercises.
Over the weekend, the Floyd County Police Department announced that they had arrested several men who were caught in an online child sex operation where police officers posed as underage children and the men agreed to travel to Floyd County for sexual activity. Two Chattooga County men, one of them a teacher at Lyerly Elementary School, were arrested in the sting operation.
A federal agency expects to announce its decision today on whether to allow a launchpad that would send commercial rockets into space from coastal Georgia. However, the Federal Aviation Administration is emphasizing that a license authorizing Camden County to operate a spaceport would not yet permit the launch of any rockets.
The Chattooga Board of Education met on Thursday of last week and voted unanimously to extend the contract of School Superintendent Jared Hosmer.
A traffic stop last week ended in the arrest of a LaFayette man who is now facing drug charges.
Chattooga County Sheriff Mark Schrader swore in a new deputy who recently graduating from the Law Enforcement Academy.
The Coosa Valley News reported over the weekend, according to Rome City Commissioner Craig McDaniel, the Varsity has plans to open a location within the city limits.
This holiday season should be a joyous one — for criminals. Holiday spending always makes it easier for fraudsters to steal your money. A Starling Mill Road, Lyerly man recently reported a case of debit card fraud to the sheriff’s office.
For the past several years, Real Country WZQZ has given away $991 in Christmas Cash each Holiday Season. This year, WZQZ did things a bit differently and allowed our listeners and Facebook followers to nominate their favorite charity to win the Christmas Cash.
National Wreaths Across America Day took place on Saturday at 3,136 participating locations across the country. Our nation’s heroes were remembered as each name was said aloud and honored as over 525 truckloads of wreaths were delivered – representing 390 different carriers, including Northwest Georgia’s Mohawk Industries – and over two million volunteers, a third of whom were children, helped placed more than 2.4 million veterans’ wreaths on headstones of our fallen across the country.