Party City opens Friday in Cartersville. Greg Norman tees it up at LakePoint. Cartersville student wins big on Wheel of Fortune. Hurricanes selling tickets to championship game at Dome; pep rally Friday. Later today: Bartow County Jail reports, Cartersvi

Today's first headlines from www.bartowheadlines.com:

 

Ware Mechanical Weather

• Mostly sunny, low 60s; slightly warmer by the weekend.

Headlines

• Cartersville's Party City opens Friday. Greg Norman's LakePoint project tees up? Business
• Cartersville's Sam Philliber wins big on Wheel of Fortune. Wheel
• Close call in downtown as Rome Area History Museum awning collapses. Museum
• City of Rome's 'Hometown Connection' outlines needs, goals for area legislators. Rome
• At a glance: Big need for O-negative blood and other updates from across Northwest Georgia. Briefly
• Smile Report: 3 Floyd County Schools College and Career Academy students earn honors at Career Technical Instruction Fall Leadership Conference. Smile
• Georgia Health News: A scary diagnosis -- and a whole new calling. GHN
• Obituaries: Remembering Mr. Robert "Jerry" Blalock, Mildred C. Jordan, Mrs. Rhoda Rovena Huffman Minton, Lucille Pate. Services
• Public Health restaurant inspections scores. 'U' for Floyd County Mexican restaurant. Dining
• Area arrest reports brought to you by Dr. Miniyar's Pediatrics. CrimeWatch

Holiday Happenings

• Hometown Headlines has teamed with Harbin Clinic to present Holiday Happenings, a digital magazine with details on parades, concerts, performances and live Nativity scenes across Northwest Georgia. You can view it in two formats: Desktop or Mobile
  

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

• Class AAAA State Championship: Cartersville vs. Buford, Saturday, 4 p.m.,  at The Georgia Dome. Tickets on sale at CHS; pep rally set for Friday afternoon.
• John McClellan's high school championship picks. Buford too much for the Cartersville Purple Hurricanes. Plus: John's picks for all the title games.  McClellan
  
• Georgia High School Football Daily.
• All the bowl matchups from ESPN. Georgia vs. Penn State on Jan. 2. Click
• The Falcons at Carolina, 1 p.m. Sunday / The latest on the NFL

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