With 500 restaurants already in NW Georgia, trends show even more on the way. Halloween City returns. Cheapest gas? Go west. Berry professor authors new book on black baseball, media. Highs in the mid 90s today.

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Ware Mechanical forecast

• Our hint of fall from the weekend is long gone as temperatures return to the mid to upper 90s with a triple-digit heat index likely on Tuesday.

Headlines:

• Restaurant industry boom in Northwest Georgia: nearly 500 in Floyd, Bartow, Gordon, Polk -- and growing. Restaurants
• Halloween City returns to Cartersville -- perhaps for the last time (Party City on the way). Halloween
• Rome's Teriyaki Passion closing Thursday night; to be replaced by dental office.
• Gas prices at $2.10 or less -- if you drive to Centre or Cedar Bluff. Still around $2.40 in Northwest Georgia. Gas
• Berry's Dr. Brian Carroll authors 'A Devil's Bargain: The Black Press and Black Baseball, 1915-1955,' examining the black press, black baseball and the end of the game's color barrier. Baseball
• The Week: Back to school. Huge weekend: First Friday(s), Tomato Sandwich Supper, Celebrity Dance Challenge, Tellus' Night at the Museum. Calendar
• Georgia Health News: Former state insurance chief wary of big mergers. GHN
• Obituaries:
• Public Health restaurant inspections scores, brought to you by Dr. Miniyar Pediatrics return Tuesday. Dining
• Area arrest reports brought to you by Midian Roofing. CrimeWatch

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Chick-fil-A Dwarf House Sports Report

• Georgia High School Football Daily returns today.
• Rome Braves shut out Augusta, 2-0.
• Tonight: Home vs Savannah, 7 p.m.
• Atlanta Braves snap six-game skid, beat Phillies 6-2
• Tonight: At Turner Field vs. San Francisco, 7:10 p.m.

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Please join our guests Monday including:

• At 7:40 a.m.: Layla Shipman, chair of the Floyd County Republican Party, on the 11th annual rally at the Tillman Hangar on Aug. 15.
• At 8:40 a.m.: Janice Hopkins on the 2015 edition of Faces of Hope returning to the Harbin Clinic Tony E. Warren Cancer Center