Adairsville News

Through the Heart of the Chase bus tour on June 9, attendees will gain insight into Bartow County's role in the Great Locomotive Chase.

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The Bartow County Library System has begun registration for its youth summer reading programs that begin in June, but Youth Services Coordinator Thomas Shalin says that's no reason for young people and their parents to wait to read.

Floyd County's 2011 budget called for using $2.2 million from its fund balance to cover costs, but the final figures are in and just $685,699 was tapped.

An Adairsville man was in jail without bail Sunday after his arrest on charges of drug possession, according to a Floyd County Jail report.

The following information -- names, photos, addresses, charges and other details -- was taken directly from Bartow County Sheriff's Office jail records.

The following information -- names, photos, addresses, charges and other details -- was taken directly from Bartow County Sheriff's Office jail records.

A motor vehicle chase with speeds in excess of 100 mph at times ended Wednesday afternoon on Folsom Glade Road in the Adairsville area.

No local high schools received state or national rankings, according to a report on top high schools released this week by U.S. News & World Report .

Pictured left to right: Rich Branson, Environment, Health, & Safety Manager at Kobelco, Steve Van Zant, General Plant Manager at Kobelco, Pat Dreps, Manufacturing Engineering Manager at Kobelco, Jeremy Barton, General Manager at Cellulose Solutions, and Larry Hyde, Director of Sales at Cellulose Solutions.

The Bartow County Sheriff's Office reported that a 18-year-old Adairsville resident overnight as a result of what they believe was a self-inflicted accidental gunshot wound.

Update: According to the Georgia State Patrol, pedestrian, Amanda Suzanne Hudson, 18, of Athens, Tenn., was walking east from a store parking lot and walked into the path of an oncoming 2005 Ford Ranger at around 10:50 a.m. The driver of the Ranger, Shon Ashley Evans, 21, of Adairsville, could not stop in time before hitting Hudson.

Neighborhood watch programs have been a focus of the news since February when a Sanford, Fla., watch volunteer fatally shot an unarmed teenager who "looked suspicious." Locally, neighborhood watches are not necessarily popular, with Adairsville being the only municipality reporting active programs.

As the region sees near record-breaking high temperatures, today marks the start of "smog season" in metro Atlanta.

About 6:30 a.m. Monday, a tractor-trailer overturned on a Ford Mustang on the on-ramp to Interstate 75 southbound at exit 283, Emerson/Allatoona. The driver of the car was taken to Cartersville Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.

The following information -- names, photos, addresses, charges and other details -- was taken directly from Bartow County Sheriff's Office jail records.

JaMiya Moore, left, and Victoria Williams work on a computer in the tech center at the Boys and Girls Club in Cartersville.

The following information -- names, photos, addresses, charges and other details -- was taken directly from Bartow County Sheriff's Office jail records.