Whitfield County News

Sixth-graders at Eastbrook Middle School learned that Whitfield County has a problem with dogs.

Authorities were still searching Monday for Adolf Ray "Sonny" Neal, who is a suspect in the Thursday morning murder of his wife and her grandfather, said Capt.

By the time Dr. Spencer Misner had carved away the dead and diseased flesh from Bobby Rice's right foot last year, little remained other than bones and tendons.

Authorities were searching Saturday for a man they believe killed his wife and her grandfather at the couple's Dalton home.

Mr. Grammar said, "I want a responsive government. When others announced in October of 2011, I looked over the candidates and began to consider running." He said, "Many family members and friends urged me to run and, after much prayer and thought, I decided that now is the time to try to make our county a better place to live.

Authorities have identified the two Dawnville residents murdered this morning and are still searching for the man they believe committed the killings.

Whitfield County Sheriff Scott Chitwood tells The Associated Press that neighbors reported the bodies, and officers found a man and a woman dead at a home in a subdivision shortly after 7 a.m. Thursday.

A man and woman are dead in Dawnville and authorities were still looking for a suspect in the area around 11 a.m. on Thursday morning, said Capt.

The three-year total of donations now sits at almost $46,000, all of which goes to the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation to operate Camp Oo-U-La, Georgia's only camp held exclusively for burn-injured children between the ages of 7 and 17.

May 22--The members of the Dalton City Council took steps Monday to make sure that flying into and out of Dalton Municipal Airport stays safe.

Claude Craig, director of the Whitfield County Emergency Management Agency, speaks to other emergency responders, including Dalton Fire Chief Bruce Satterfield, right, on the corner of Callahan Road and South Hamilton Extension near where a chemical rupture occurred at MFG Chemical Monday morning.

The Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority facilities will be closed on Monday, May 28, in observance of Memorial Day.

DALTON, Ga. -- Several people suffered from minor injuries after a chemical reaction caused an explosion at a plant in Dalton Monday morning.

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Whitfield and Murray County voters will find out officially this week who will be running for local offices.

Susan Miller says she will run for the Whitfield County clerk of Superior Court this year as a Republican.

Whitfield County Magistrate Court Judge Kaye Cope plans to run for re-election. Qualifying begins Wednesday.

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From early on, Marlen Rodriguez knew she wanted to go to college, but it wasn't until she was in middle school and joined a summer program at Dalton State College that she actually felt it could become a reality.