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The Pine Log Wildlife Management Area in White, Ga. is fully closed to the public as of Thursday.

A community is mourning the death of a 14-year-old Floyd County girl who died in an ATV accident last week.

Public access to the Pine Log WMA in north Georgia's Bartow County ends Thursday amid development and sale negotiations by the family who has owned the 14,000-acre plot for nearly a century. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has leased the land for the past 46 years and is negotiating to buy the property, but those discussions have languished for months.

A pack of cigars could end up costing a Cartersville man at least $4,000 and prison time. According to the Cartersville Police Department and Bartow County Jail: Aaron Arthur Levi, 39, went into the Texaco gas station at 216 S. Tennessee St. for cigars Sunday night and ended up trashing the place. The clerk told...

A Canton man has been arrested after authorities say that he charged at a woman and two deputies with knives. Timothy Luke Matthews, 37, of Canton was arrested by the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office Saturday. According to a warrant filed May 28 by the sheriff’s office, he is charged with the following felonies: two counts of felony aggravated assault against a peace officer, one count of felony aggravated assault with a...

A Union City man has been sentenced to life in prison for sex trafficking of a 16-year-old girl in Cherokee and Fulton counties, the Georgia Attorney General's office announced. Mark Thomas, 38, of Union City, has received two life sentences to be served concurrently. These two cases involve the same underage victim, who was trafficked in both jurisdictions over a period of several months in 2021, authorities said. In addition...

An investigation is underway into the second fatal accident in our area over the Memorial Day weekend, one that looks to be the result of a hit-and-run in Bartow County. The Georgia State Patrol reports that at 8:20 p.m. Monday, troopers responded to East Pleasant Valley Road to assist the Bartow County Sheriff's Office with a woman's body found on side of the road. The agencies determined she had been...

Channel 2 Action News is learning more about a deadly Memorial Day weekend crash.

CANTON, Ga. — Chipper Jones has been busy! The former Atlanta Braves star bought and sold a multimillion-dollar estate in the last several weeks. Jones sold his Painted View Ranch in Canton. The 23,000-square-foot estate sold for $11 million. The property included beautiful gardens and fountains, a heated pool, expansive pastures, a pond, a large home theater, a home gym, a sauna, a steam shower, a massage/yoga room, a game room, a custom playroom, and a craft room.

Blood found at a break-in on Church Street and a match to a national crime database sample led to the arrest of a Rome man on a felony burglary charge, reports stated. According to Floyd County Jail reports: Walter Marquez Kirby, 23, is accused of breaking into the home between Aug. 14 and Aug. 15, 2018, and stealing approximately $550 worth of gaming equipment. Police found blood near the place...

A Canton man was recently sentenced to 15 years in prison for a violent assault on his girlfriend last year, the Cherokee County District Attorney’s office announced. Air Force Staff Sgt. Sean David Glover, 42, was found guilty of aggravated assault — strangulation by a Cherokee County jury March 23. He had been on trial for charges of rape, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, and battery, but was only convicted of...

5/25/2023– At approximately 4:29 a.m. Bartow County Fire & Emergency Services. were dispatched to 447 Oak Street No. 1 S.E., Acworth to report of a residential. structure fire. BCFES crews arrived on scene to find an outbuilding and mobile home. with heavy fire showing. Once crews were able to...

Join the Iron Order Motorcycle Club for their annual Pamela Anderson ride benefitting the Bartow County-based Flowering Branch Children’s Shelter. The Flowering Branch Children’s Shelter is a residential program for at-risk youth who have been abused, neglected, or sexually exploited or who have run away and are homeless.

Two unrelated ATV accidents in Cherokee County, Ga., claimed the life of a Rome teen while a Summerville man was injured, reports from radio station WEIS show. Two others also were injured. Citing updates from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, WEIS reports the Friday afternoon accident left the Rome team critically injured after the 2017 Mahindra ATV left the road, struck a guy wire and overturned. The teen was ejected...

A crash on a busy Cherokee County highway killed a Hall County father of two over the Memorial Day weekend.

Three days a week, Kennesaw State University students Emily and Calvin Ghasemi attend classes remotely from their home in Woodstock. They watch lectures on Zoom and Microsoft Teams and receive assignments from their professors via email. Two days a week, they come to campus, each doing their own research and projects, hanging out with friends, participating in student groups and taking in as much of the college experience as they...

CANTON — The Cherokee Arts Center may be closed, but there is now a permanent symbol of its influence on the community in downtown Canton. Cherokee County Arts Council board members unveiled a sculpture Wednesday dedicated by the arts center, in front of the historic church that housed the organization for many years. The bronze sculpture shows two figures sitting on a bench — an older man painting on a...

WOODSTOCK, Ga. — A Woodstock mother is behind bars after police said she's been strangling her children. A Woodstock Police Department detective has been investigating the case since April 26. The detective was asked to attend a forensics interview for three children requested by Georgia's Department of Family and Children's Services.

A 43-year-old Rome man is among the 15 people to die on Georgia roads this Memorial Day weekend. Jason Samuel Johnson was killed in a wreck as the holiday weekend got underway, according to the Georgia Department of Public Safety. Late Monday, state troopers with the Cartersville post also investigated an accident that claimed one life. We'll have updates later today. ...

A new restaurant is bringing Indian dishes to downtown Woodstock, and is preparing to celebrate its grand opening with a ribbon cutting, music and giveaways. Sizzling Spices Fine Indian Cuisine's grand opening is 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 2 at 106 Arnold Mill Road, Suite A-1 in Woodstock. The restaurant is offering a free appetizer to the first 100 customers, and food specials, samples and favors will be available...