Rome schools in session today. Floyd, Coosa Diagnostics deal; Mohawk's earnings up. Dining: 'Happy Hour' heats up, cools down. Latest Public Health scores. Weekend weather: low 90s, some rain. Top 5: First Friday; Tams on Saturday.

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The Buzz -Traffic alert: Rome City Schools open today; county schools on Monday. -Floyd, Coosa Diagnostic strike a deal. -Mohawk posts $85 million second-quarter earnings. -Workshop to offer the hard answers to the 'Do I want to own my own business' question.    Dining -'Happy' hours expand: Call them what you want but area restaurants continue to add late-afternoon milk shake, smoothie and other frozen drink specials. Plus: new shake. -Double the cajun today in Rome. -Thursday's Public Health restaurant inspection scores for Floyd, Bartow.   Norman's back: No, no no-nos just yet but Norman Arey takes a preseason look at college football on today's Chick-Fil-A Dwarf House Sports Report.   Weather -Highs in the upper 80s to low 90s through Sunday; 20 to 40% rain chance. Lows in the 70s.   Five things to know about this weekend: -Why not have a 'mater sandwich for dinner? Double header Saturday: Rome Braves and The Tams. Satin Finish at First Friday at 7 tonight.   Today's latest jail reports -Look for reports at 6 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 8 p.m.   Hometown Headlines, day two -The new Hometown: We thank you for all the comments on our new look and features, and we're close to getting some unforeseen issues resolved (email outage, county websites) by the weekend. The good news: the only kinks with the daily operation of our new design are operator errors. -Please continue to use jcdruckenmiller@gmail.com for any email messages or news releases.

Chick-Fil-A Dwarf House Sports Report   -Norman Arey returns to set up the coverage plan for college football as we count down the days until the 2013 premiere ofNorman's No-Nos.   Rome Braves -Braves drop opener to Legends, 5-1. -Braves at home tonight at 7 vs. Lexington. -See Mills Fitzner's latest home game photos Click

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition 7-9 a.m. weekdays. Listen live online -Please join our guests Friday including: -Greg Cater, former star punter with the Buffalo Bills, now community pastor at LIFE Church and also one of the celebrity dancers on Aug. 17. -Hometown Headlines/WRGA News Roundtable with Kevin Karel and L.J. Hatcher.