Latest on our overnight rain and what's ahead today. Cartersvile restaurant offers healthy cooking, meals to go, catering. Smoothie King coming to new site in Rome. Sports updates. Later today: Bartow County Jail reports, Cartersville Police updates.

Where your news day starts: www.bartowheadlines.com:

 

Ware Mechanical forecast:

• Upper 60s with more rain today. Weather

Today's headlines:

• Dining: Morgan Rae's in Cartersville gets new home with same mission: healthy food for dine in, carry out or catering. Dining
• Federal agency releases preliminary report into helicopter crash that killed Rome flight nurse Stacey Cernadas. Crash
• Business: Smoothie King upsizes original plans, will open in former Ward's Pharmacy near ALDI. Smoothie
• Buzz: Ellie Lawrence of The Voice on why she's supporting Saturday's benefit concert. Dresses from around 1900 at Martha Berry Museum. Buzz
• Smile Report:  Duke recognizes five Floyd County seventh-grade students. Smile
• Smile Report: Petty Officer 3rd Class Charles A. Thurman of Adairsville awarded Air Wing's Warrior of the Day honors. Smile
• Public Health restaurant inspection scores. Dining
• Remembering Mr. Early Albert Davis, Cade McLeod, Mrs. Unice Darlene Rayburn, U.S. Army (Rtd) Sgt. Sam W. Wright, Frances Elizabeth "Betsy" Trammell Young. Obituaries
• Area arrest reports brought to you by Dr. Miniyar's Pediatrics. CrimeWatch

Regular features:

• Politics: A look at the local ballots for Floyd, Bartow, Gordon, Polk counties. 2016
• 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

• Rome Braves rained out Monday; host Fireflies for two games starting at 5 tonight.
• Busy week of high school baseball.
• Mills Fitzner's Rome Braves' photo gallery.
• Latest local college updates.
• Upcoming community sports events.

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition, WRGA 98.7 FM (streaming)

Please join our guests from 7-9 a.m. including:

• At 7:40 a.m.: Andrea Pitts of Redmond Regional Medical Center on AngioScreen service available this Friday from 8-11 a.m. in front of the hospital.
• At 8:10 a.m.: Rome environmentalist Joe Cook on a clean energy forum coming to Berry College Wednesday night as well as CRBI's Green Gala coming up Thursday night at Barnsley Gardens.
• At 8:40 a.m.: David A. Dundee, Astronomy Program Manager at Tellus Science Museum, on the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle program and what it meant to America's space efforts.