-News Release- Last week, U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) called for a statewide moratorium on all data center construction after visiting the proposed site of OpenAI's new 3.2-gigawatt data center in Effingham County. Ahead of this announcement, the Senator met with several residents who raised serious co...

-Floyd County Jail records- A Rome woman has been arrested on a misdemeanor charge of animal abandonment. According to the arrest warrant: 23-year-old Itzel Guadalupe Reyes-Cruz abandoned 17 kittens at Shorter Avenue Baptist Church on August 8. The kittens were three to four weeks old and were left in a cardboard box.

-Floyd County Jail records- Two charged with theft by receiving a stolen motor vehicle Two West Rome men have been arrested on felony warrants charging them with theft by receiving stolen property. According to the warrants: 21-year-old Maynor Alberto Lopez-Xiloj and 17-year-old Dennis Pedro Lopez-Xiloj were passengers...

-News Release- The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) has confirmed three additional measles cases associated with the measles case confirmed August 18, for a total of 8 cases associated with the current outbreak. This outbreak is associated with a daycare setting in the metro Atlanta area; the children were eit...

-Nolan Hiott, WRGA- The last First Friday event took place in Downtown Rome on Friday, where the 200 block was full of concert-goers. Featuring the band, "Guardians of the Jukebox", the last First Friday of the season saw a big stage set up in the middle of the 200 block of Downtown Rome. Along the stage were...