News ticker: $17 million month for home sales. Two more inches of rain due after Thursday storms. Weekend: Some changes to suit the forecast but everything's still a go. Want a job? Go back to school (Pepperell High)..

LATEST HEADLINES

 

Updates from the Floyd County and Bartow County jails.

 

MORNING REPORT

• News ticker: $17 million March shows why local Realtors are an industry of their own. Make that Bucket of ... Sugar? Why Floyd's tax commissioner is loved. Want a job? Go back to school (Pepperell High specifically). Ticker
• Ware Mechanical Weather Center: With more than a half inch of rain already on the ground, we could see another two inches by Sunday afternoon. Weather
• Weekend! presented by The Forum River Center: Braves, Redmond pitching 1,000 free jerseys. Strawberry fields at farmers market.  Astronomy day at Tellus; cow patty events mooove to the Y. Weekend
• Buzz: Law Enforcement Memorial Service set for Friday, May 17. Habitat selection meeting set for May 16. April report for the Public Animal Welfare Services (PAWS). Buzz
• May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Willowbrooke at Floyd offering three discussions on teen suicide prevent, hope and recovery. Mental health
• Obituaries: Rex L Abernathy, Mr. Otis Clyde Boone, Mr. Hoyett Ray Crews, Lucile Whittenburg Crews, Mrs. Willie Welch Herndon, Belen Dizon Nora. 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

Rome Braves fall 6-4 to Greenville; deciding game tonight at 7 at State Mutual.

 

Honors for Shorter Track's Elliott Cummings.

 

Updates on high school sports.

 

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

7:40 a.m. Ken Wright, the Rome Floyd Chamber's director of Business and Industry Services, on economic development updates in our market.

 

8:10 a.m. A preview of next Wednesday's full school evacuation drill at Pepperell High School with Floyd County Schools' Chief Security Officer Rick Flanigen and Floyd County Emergency Management Director Tim Herrington.

 

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