Bill Collins wins 5-4 vote to serve as Rome's mayor; Quick new pro tem. Updates on accident with deputy, two inmates on I-75. Honors for Rome High football coach John Reid.

MORNING EDITION

• Bill Collins elected Rome's new mayor in 5-4 vote. Randy Quick new pro tem. Collins
• Update on Monday morning crash with Floyd Sheriff's deputy, inmates: Two inmates, another motorist injured. Home page
• Cedartown's Jermaine Courtney Brown, 28, sentenced to three years, one month  for possessing a firearm while a convicted felon count.Sentenced
• Buzz: Floyd County Schools Ensemble Theatre presents My Fair Lady on Jan. 25-27. Free tickets remain for Pixar Co-Founder Ed Catmull speaking at Berry's Shatto Lecture Series on Feb. 21.  Chieftains, One Book, Many Voices select Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier as 2019 book. Buzz
• Health: Five flu deaths so far in Georgia this season. Imagine Pediatrics opens in two weeks at Riverbend Center. Health
• Ware Mechanical Weather Center: One more day in the upper 40s and then a slow climb to the low 60s -- and then winter storms back. Weather
• Obituaries: Mr. Talmadge Otis Hardy, Ms. Sybil Stallings. Obituaries
• Public Health restaurant inspection scores. Dining

  Area arrest reports for Floyd, Bartow, Polk counties. Crimewatch

 

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Truett's Chick-fil-A Sports Report: Sports..

Honors for Rome High football coach John Reid.

 

Busy high school basketball schedule tonight.

 

Latest local college notes.

 

Sunday's AFC, NFC championship games decides who comes to Atlanta for the Super Bowl on Feb. 3.

 

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Hometown Headlines Radio Edition, 7-9 a.m. weekdays, WRGA 98.7 FM

 

7:40 a.m. Louis Johnson and Drew Conrad about how girls can now join the Scouts.

 

8:40 a.m. Meet Berry basketball's first-year head coach, Mitch Cole, who already has guided the Vikings to more wins than last season and they sit atop the SAA rankings after a huge win Sunday.