Today's first headlines:
- Business: PhyNet Dermatology coming to Riverbend Drive. Downtown FIT, a women's training studio, opens in Bridgepoint Plaza.
- Dining: Bids sought on Jersey Mike's Subs at East Bend, latest restaurant in emerging dining hub.
- COVID on campus: Quarantines jump at Rome High; 2 positive tests (RHS, Rome Middle). Floyd students return; report pending.
- NW Georgia counties' positivity rate much higher than state average; more than double in some. State shows 3.8% increase in cases; Floyd, Bartow, Gordon, Polk all above 5%.
- Voting: Presidential debate tonight at 9. State tops 2 million ballots cast so far; expects 5 million when polls close Nov. 3. Bartow Elections Chief Joseph Kirk named to state panel.
Also today:
- Harbin Cancer Center's Dr. Gregory Harris named a 2020 State Emerging Leader by the American Osteopathic Foundation. Also: Crush the Crisis this Saturday.
- Buzz: Salvation Army to use $12,500 grant from International Paper to provide food, clothing for those in need. Fall color winners for 4-H.
- Ware Mechanical Weather Center: Mostly in the low 80s through the weekend with perhaps two tenths of an inch of rain.
- Obituaries: Harold A. Coker, Dean C. Deterding, Shirley Jean Dunbar, Alice Marie Evans, Harold J. Johnson, Letha Mae Oakes, Kathy Sexton, Charles M. Shank.
- Dining: Public Health restaurant inspection scores, Tuesday-Saturday.
- Crimewatch: Updates on area arrests.
Truett's Chick-fil-A Sports Report:
- John McClellan's high school picks for Friday, Saturday, Monday.
- High school sports roundup. Volleyball, softball scores.
- Update on Berry's Mason Kinsey, back with the Patriots.
- Georgia Tech at Boston College, 4 p.m. Saturday, ACC. Notre Dame game update.
- Georgia is off Saturday; at Kentucky, noon Oct. 31.
- SEC TV times for Saturday.
- Falcons (1-5) host Detroit Sunday, 1 p.m., Fox.
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