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Cartersville Police Department personnel stand out an ambulance on May 19, 2012, after businessman John Lewis was beaten with a handgun during an armed robbery. The two suspects charged in the robbery pleaded guilty Tuesday in Bartow County Superior Court. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News, File
Two enter guilty pleas in 2012 armed robbery
Two men charged in connection with the armed robbery of a downtown Cartersville business entered guilty pleas Tuesday in Bartow County Superior Court. Deric Christopher Williams and Raymond “Ray” A...
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BCBOE sees ‘dismal’ FY14 tentative budget
According to the tentative proposed FY14 budget approved at Monday’s business meeting, Bartow County Schools will see a $6 million shortfall in the coming year — further reducing the system’s fund ...
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Bart Mitcham is a private detective. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Private eye: Owner of Action Detective Agency named to state board
Nothing about Bart Mitcham says detective, but that works to his benefit. Coming from a military family — his father and mother met through the military in World War II and his brother was an Army ...
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Summer H.E.A.T. crackdown on DUI, speed begins
The temperatures won’t be the only thing heating up this summer. Across the state, law enforcement agencies will roll out the 10th season of 100 Days of Summer H.E.A.T. (Highway Enforcement of Aggr...
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Louie's Cafe moves downtown, construction underway
For the past three years, Will and Mary Elizabeth Sprague have watched their family and business grow. Louie’s Cafe — the family’s breakfast, lunch and catering business — is named after their 3-ye...
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Buck Dempsey, left, and Chris Heard renovate a home on Poplar Springs Road in Adairsville. Dempsey has been volunteering in the tornado relief effort with Bartow Christian Disaster Recovery since the beginning of February. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
'Love Thy Neighbor': Community bands together through Bartow Christian Disaster Recovery
For Buck Dempsey, helping Adairsville’s tornado victims rebuild their lives is a labor of love. Through Bartow Christian Disaster Recovery, the Armuchee resident has volunteered since the beginning...
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Community Foundation awards area nonprofits $21,000
The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia recently announced recipients in its spring grant cycle, in which more than $80,000 was awarded to organizations across the region, including $21,000 f...
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South Central Middle School student Brandon Gonzalez shows off his winning Bartow County school bus rodeo T-shirt design with Transportation Supervisor Wendy Carringer. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
SCMS student wins shirt design contest
Brandon Gonzalez, an eighth-grade student at South Central Middle School, has won the annual county-wide T-shirt design contest for the upcoming Bartow County school bus rodeo. “We have a Bartow Co...
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Suspect in White pot operation faces 45 felony counts
A Kennesaw man with a checkered past is in custody after White police say he was behind marijuana plants and stolen credit cards found at a home in the city limits. White Police Chief David King sa...
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Child abandoned at Wal-Mart during shoplifting attempt
A 5-year-old boy was left behind in Wal-Mart Thursday afternoon when his custodian fled the store during a shoplifting attempt. When dispatched to the scene, the Bartow County Sheriff’s Office depu...
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Chasing December competes in Battle of the Bands
Describing themselves as “the definitive modern rock band,” Chasing December is the only Bartow County musical act competing in the fourth annual State Mutual Insurance Battle of the Bands. Along w...
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Bartow schools to vote on budget, increase meal prices
Late Friday afternoon, the Bartow County Board of Education added to its Monday, May 20, business session agenda an item regarding the approval of the Fiscal Year 2014 agenda. Calls to Superintende...
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Edward Jones Financial Advisor Olen Suire. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Suire award to go toward charities
Edward Jones Financial Advisor Olen Suire recently received the Edward Jones Trust Company Community Service Impact Award, based on his fundraising efforts with the Bartow Education Foundation and ...
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Cartersville council OKs spending measures
After shaking wings with Cartersville Mayor Matt Santini and members of the Cartersville City Council, “Quacky,” the super-sized mascot of the 12th annual Duck Derby, ended its tour of Bartow Count...
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Alleged arsonist arrested; suspect has history of violence
A man allegedly sent over the edge by his neighbor’s grass has a history of violent behavior. Phillip Rodger Bennett, 58, is accused of torching his neighbor’s home on Boatner Avenue on Wednesday a...
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