-Staff reports- The final First Friday concert of the season will be a block party. Guardians of the Jukebox will be performing some of the biggest hits of the 1980s. The show starts at 7, but the party starts at 2 with sidewalk sales, chalk, and lots of fun. Keep in mind, this means the 200 block of Broad Street will ...

-Staff reports- A new professional arena football team is coming to Rome. The team will officially be unveiled during a news conference on Tuesday, September 8 at 10:30 a.m. at the Forum River Center. The team's name and logo will be unveiled along with details about the new team and the upcoming season. Media will als...

-Floyd County Jail records- A Rome woman was arrested on Wednesday at her Moran Lake Road home on a felony warrant charging her with theft by shoplifting. According to the warrant: 49-year-old Chrissie Ann Wells took 11 boxes of crab legs, valued at $659, from Kroger on Turner McCall Boulevard. She entered the store on...

-Floyd County Jail Records- A man was arrested in New Rome for stealing a handgun. According to Floyd County Jail Records: 25 year old Dale Jackson Early Jr was arrested on the 2nd for entering someone's vehicle without permission and taking a handgun from the vehicle. He then drove the victim off of their property. Da...

-Staff reports- One person was killed and another seriously injured in a wreck on Blacks Bluff Road near the Alabama State Line on Wednesday. According to Floyd County Police, the single-vehicle crash occurred around lunchtime. Authorities are looking into the possibility that it may have resulted from a medical emerge...