Rough, rainy weather on tap today, tonight. Continuing updates. Cartersville Medical penalized for infection scores. Later today: Bartow County Jail reports

Where Bartow County's news day starts – and ends. Continuing coverage at www.bartowheadlines.com:

 

Ware Mechanical forecast:

• Stormy, wet day, night ahead. High of 54, low of 53. Continuing updates all day at Hometown Headlines

Headlines:

• Latest updates on today's storms. Alert
• The spirit of Christmas: Wilson, Fraternal Order of Police raise funds to move woman, family into their own home in time for the holidays
• Cartersville Medical among 29 Georgia hospitals to face penalties for infection rates. Also: How Floyd, Redmond, Gordon fared. Health
• 'Bring One for the Chipper' returns Jan. 3 outside Home Depot. Tree recycling
• Isakson, Chambliss, Perdue applaud U.S. Attorney Sally Yates' nomination to serve as U.S. deputy attorney general. Yates
• Public Health restaurant inspection scores for Northwest Georgia. Dining
• Bartow County Jail reports.

Regular features:

• Christmas services in Northwest Georgia. Christmas
• Today's business headlines from  Georgia Trend
• Northwest Georgia's best source for job leads. Click Career Builder

Chick-fil-A Dwarf House Sports Report  (click)

• Coming Friday: Norman Arey's Norman's No-Nos, bowl edition. We'll post Norman's guaranteed bowl losers. Also, Norman joins us on Hometown Headlines Radio Edition beginning at 7:10 a.m. Friday on WRGA 98.7 FM and 1470 AM.
• Bowl season: Georgia going to Belk Bowl vs. Louisville; Georgia Tech vs.  Mississippi State in Orange Bowl. SEC has 12 teams bowl-bound.
• This week's college football bowls, times, teams and broadcasts.
• Links to latest local college results.

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition on WRGA 98.7 FM & 1470 AM

• 7-9 a.m. Click to listen live online
• Please join our guests including:
• At 7:40 a.m.: Jim O'Hara sharing some Shorter University Christmas sports stories.
• At 8:20 a.m.: Kenna Baker, safety officer at Floyd Medical Center, on the results from last week's Ebola drill.
• At 8:40 a.m.: Meteorologist Dan Darby of the National Weather Service on the incoming storms and what we can expect later today and overnight