Mineral Bluff News

A 23-year-old Georgia man was killed early Sunday morning when, police say, he walked in front of an SUV traveling on Interstate 24 at the Interstate 65 split.

Christopher Grove was attempting to cross Interstate 24 to the outside shoulder early Sunday morning when he was hit.

A north Georgia man is under arrest, accused of threatening several public officials through what law enforcement officers call "paper terrorism." Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Robert Eugene Stephens filed fraudulent liens against his victims.

Cpl. Leon Barnett of Marietta holds a jar of sand that he brought back from Omaha in Normandy, France, during a trip back there recently.

Mr. Bobby Gene Flowers, age 80 of Mineral Bluff, GA, passed from this life on Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 from the Floyd County Medical Center in Rome GA.