Sunshine all weekend with slight rain chance on Memorial Day. Busy weekend: Graduations, Rome River Jam. Crowd-Funding bid underway for A.T. run. Cartersville Busch plant helping relief efforts. Sports: Braves lose, Cartersville HS baseball in state title

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Ware Mechanical weather: -Sunshine all weekend with high of 89 today. 20% rain chance on Memorial Day. -Expanded forecast below.   Headlines:     Crowd-funding bid begins for Rome man's planned run of the Appalachian Trial to raise $100,000 for Ugandan orphans. Memorial Day Weekend: Rome River Jam, graduations, barbecue, baseball and thanking those who served.  Cartersville's Anheuser-Busch brewery switches to water to help emergency relief efforts.  Public Health restaurant inspection scores. Today's jail reports will be posted later today.

Chick-fil-A Dwarf House Sports Report      Rome Braves: -The Rome Braves fall 14-4 to Greensboro.   -Tonight at 7 vs. Greensboro with post-game concert. -Braves home game photos by Mills Fitzner.    More sports Cartersville High hosts Blessed Trinity today for state AAA baseball title. Georgia Fire at Alabama Hammer, 8 tonight.  Links to latest updates from Berry, Shorter, Georgia Northwestern and Georgia Highlands.

Ware Mechanical forecast:   -Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 89. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. -Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 62. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm. -Get your three-day forecast and updated weather links at Hometown Headlines.

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition 7-9 a.m. weekdays. Listen live at 98.7 FM, 1470 AM  or wrga.streamon.fm. Please join our guests Tuesday including: Tony Uhrich, consulting engineer, from Savannah's Hussey Gay Bell & Deyoung Inc. for his impressions after a recent chamber visit to Rome. Barry Loudermilk, who's in a tight GOP runoff with Bob Barr on July 22 for the 11th Congressional District seat.