Weekend washout -- or great weather for ducks (Derby)? Oktoberfest premieres. Great Locomotive Chase festival opens. Sports updates. Later today: county jail, Cartersville Police reports

Your news day starts here at 5 each weekday morning, courtesy of www.bartowheadlines.com:

 

Ware Mechanical forecast

• Our top story: Weekend washout very possible as heavy rain associated with Hurricane Joaquin covers much of the state.
• Continuing updates all weekend on our weather and the forecast.
• Latest updates on any delays or cancellations associated with the weather.

Headlines:

• Soho Hibachi adds Calhoun location five months after Rome opening. Restaurants
• Done deal: GE donating 123 acres to the city of Rome. Statement details potential uses, ongoing testing. GE
• Tellus, West Virginia University to bring new solar decathlon house to the museum's campus. Tellus
• Business: Digital Boot Camp set for Oct. 15; to focus on how to profit from social media. Business
• Independent investigation clears former superintendent, board chair, others. Also: Superintendent transition begins. Floyd
• An early Mountain Day celebration: Harry Musselwhite's 'Martha Berry' screenplay up for additional honors. Berry
• Shorter receives $1 million gift designated to establish the Joan Alden Speidel Chair in English. Shorter
• Georgia Trend spotlights Darlington as well as other boarding schools in the state. Darlington
• Sales Tax Holiday now through Sunday on energy-efficient, water-efficient products -- and maybe save more when dumping the old fridge. Tax holiday
• Weekend: Mountain Day at Berry. Festivals in Adairsville, Cedartown. Oktoberfest, ducks in Cartersville. Air show in Rome. Weekend
• National Orthodontic Health Month focuses on taking care of that smile. Health
• Obituaries:  Remembering Mary Alice Glass Southerlin, James T. Brock, Bonnie Ruth Allen. Funerals
• Public Health restaurant inspections scores, brought to you by Dr. Miniyar Pediatrics. Dining
• Gordon deputies capture Rome suspect who fled after his car was stopped on Ga. 53. Arrest
• Area arrest reports brought to you by Midian Roofing. CrimeWatch

Regular features:

• Northwest Georgia traffic conditions via Google Maps or Waze.
• 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

HIGH SCHOOLS

• Friday night high school football: Predictions, radio and webcast details, latest forecast. Football
• John McClellan's high school picks:  Darlington by 7 over Model. Calhoun by 25 over Adairsville. Easy night for Cartersville.
• Model at Darlington is Fox 5's Game of the Week. Calhoun at Adairsville is the WSB game.
• Georgia High School Football Daily.

COLLEGES

• Norman Arey's No-Nos: Is there a big game in the state? I hate to but I pick Alabama. No-Nos.
• Berry College Vikings vs. Washington (Mo.), 6 p.m., Saturday at Valhalla. Vikings 
• Track Berry's season, from the opening to Valhalla to the latest games. Click Valhalla Rising.
• Shorter University Hawks at Mississippi College, 8 p.m. Saturday. Hawks 
• Preseason honors for Georgia Highlands basketball.

PROS

• The Falcons host Texas at 1 p.m. Sunday / The latest on the NFL
• Atlanta Braves  fall 3-0 to Marlins; host St. Louis at 7:35 tonight.

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition on WRGA 98.7 FM.
Please join our guests including:

• John McClellan joins us at 7:40 this morning to analyze the first half season of high school football
• Norman Arey joins us at 8:10 this morning to talk about THE game between Alabama and Georgia (and maybe Florida-Ole Miss.)
• At 8:40 a.m., the Hometown Headlines/WRGA news roundtable.