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DTF busts business behind drug sales
Behind the pool tables and video gambling machines, officials say a local business was operating a trade of a different sort. In an operation stemming from a three-month investigation, 12 agents fr...
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Dinner dispute leads to assault with a fork
Hide the silverware. An Acworth woman on Wednesday wielded a fork after an argument over dinner went awry. Lisa Mills allegedly began arguing with a family member over the meal about 7:15 p.m. when...
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Adairsville council OKs McDonald's expansion
Despite previous objections from a neighboring church, the Adairsville City Council voted unanimously Thursday to allow a McDonald’s restaurant to reduce the buffer between the two properties from ...
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Cartersville Elementary School Principal Ken MacKenzie sits in a chair while Southern BMX rider Mike Green sails over his head. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Test prep includes positive thinking
Next week, third- through eighth-grade students will begin taking their annual Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests. In an effort to encourage Cartersville Elementary School students to meet their...
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Bonnie Plant Manager Daniel Dawson, right, leads Leadership Bartow participants on a tour of the facility. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Leadership Bartow looks inside Ga.'s largest industry
As the Leadership Bartow class of 2013 wraps up with the final of eight program days held each month since September, the leadership development program finished the year with a look at the state’s...
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U.S. Marine veteran Mac McQuown stops by Cartersville Fire Station 4 and talks with firefighters and Fire Chief Scott Carter, far right. McQuown spent Wednesday night at the station before beginning his trek north to Dalton today. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Veteran's 15,000-mile journey passes through Bartow
A hero’s welcome awaited Mac McQuown Wednesday afternoon at Cartersville Fire Station 4. The U.S. Marine Corp veteran, carrying a large American flag, walked into Cartersville via U.S. Highway 41 j...
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Severe weather moves in today
Strong storms associated with a cold front will sweep through the area today and into Friday. An upper level system and the associated cold front will approach the state today and push through over...
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Stilesboro Academy, 1903 courthouse focus of EVHS program
Known for their historic value, the Stilesboro Academy and the 1903 Bartow County Courthouse will take center stage Tuesday. By highlighting the structures, the Etowah Valley Historical Society wil...
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Pictured with his mother Joyce Krug, Eric Krug, who was a college baseball standout, got into a car with a drunk driver and it changed his life forever. The mother and son shared the story at Woodland High School, which will join other area schools celebrating their proms. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Prom campaign focuses on positive 'Decisions'
Sixteen years ago, Eric Krug went from being a college athlete at Oglethorpe University to being confined to a wheelchair or walker without the use of his voice and much of his right hand, due to a...
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Mona Lewis listens to Bartow County 4-H member Isaac Griner explain the sport of modified trap shooting. Bartow County 4-H members made poster presentations at Tuesday evening’s Cooperative Extension open house at the Olin Tatum Agricultural Building. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Cooperative Extension hosts open house

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One of the most popular activities leading up to the races at the Atlanta Steeplechase is the hat parade and contest. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News, File
Atlanta Steeplechase ‘begins and ends in Bartow’
With the 48th annual Atlanta Steeplechase taking shape Saturday, the host community will highlight its past and present attributes through the Team Bartow Village. “The Bartow Village is a proactiv...
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Tara Currier is manager of the Downtown Cartersville Development Authority. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Currier spreads hospitality as new Downtown Development Authority head
From Main Street to sidestreets, the gleaming walls of the Booth Western Art Museum to shops under the bridge, Tara Currier looks forward to highlighting the restaurants, merchants and services ava...
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Vulcan Materials Adairsville General Superintendent Greg Hinkle makes his way to the top of the crusher. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News, File
Mining roots run deep in Bartow County
Since the beginning of human migration, resources have played into the birth, development and decline of civilizations — from the nomadic hunting parties of Eurasia to the precious few wells of Ara...
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Last year's Cartersville Police Department "pill drop" netted about 58 pounds of medications. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
CPD pill take-back event set for April 27
Two million pounds. In four previous drug take-back events, the Drug Enforcement Administration has received 1,018 tons of prescription medications. On Saturday, April 27, the Cartersville Police D...
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Damage to the side of a building can be seen at Georgia Power’s Plant Bowen in Euharlee from an explosion that occurred there Thursday afternoon. The explosion was similar to a 1972 accident. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Investigation continues into Plant Bowen explosion, injuries revised down
Georgia Power officials are investigating the cause of an explosion at Bartow County’s Plant Bowen Thursday, which tore metal panels from the plant, but left only three with minor injuries. Initial...
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