Huge break in suspected Bartow/West Virginia drug smuggling case -- and maybe more? Two parks and rec administrators who had been on leave resign; police to review next. Price to build 6 indoor tennis courts nearly half what it cost to build 60-court tennis center. 4 to 6 inches of rain forecast Saturday through next week.

MORNING REPORT

• Huge break in case against 3 Bartow men charged in suspected drug ring: Chappell pleads guilty, cooperating with task force also investigating case of dismembered woman found here. He won't face prosecution 'for distribution of a controlled substance resulting in injury or death' last August, WV News reports. Investigation
• Parks & Rec shake-up: Two senior employees who had been on administrative leave since Cowling's exit both resigned Thursday. Floyd County Police asked to review the case. Home page
• Estimate to add six indoor courts to tennis center jumps by $1 million to $5 million; current 60-court complex paid for by $11.4 million SPLOST package. Tennis
• Ware Mechanical Weather Center: Rain -- lots of it -- due next week. Estimates start at 4 to 6 inches between Saturday, next Thursday.  Weather
• Rome City Commission calls special meeting this afternoon to tweak licensing of 'sexually oriented business' -- that is, the planned Love Library Express on Tribune Street. Politics
• Kemps, Dempsey, Hufstetler unveil state Crisis and Access Line app, a 24/7 hotline offering free, confidential access to services for mental illness, substance use disorders, and intellectual and developmental disabilities. App
• Buzz: YMCA offers 100 scholarships for free swim/water safety lessons. CASA training set for Saturdays in March; how to help. Finster Fest 2019 gets $10,000 arts grant.  Buzz
• We Ride to Provide donates emergency medical gear for K9 officers working with Floyd County Police, Sheriff's Office, Rome Police. K9
• Obituaries: Mrs. Reba Inez Brock Allen, Jason Walter Graves, Loretta Sue King, Timothy Cary Walters. 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

High school basketball playoffs erupt this evening, home and away.

 

Check scores here tonight.

 

Final day for half price registration for Leprechaun-a-thon.

 

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

 

7:40 a.m. Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan joins us to discuss the first month of the 2019 General Assembly and the state's new health initiative.

 

8:10 a.m. Ophthalmologist Dr. Paul Harton of the Harbin Clinic Eye Center on the latest on lasik surgery, lenses and other treatments of eye issues.

 

8:40 a.m. Hometown Headlines/WRGA News Roundtable.