Big win for Bryson. Video offers a sentimental look at Rome's closing Kmart. Convention updates. Cooler but still 100-degree heat index. Later today: Bartow jail, Cartersville Police reports.

Where Bartow County's news day never ends: www.bartowheadlines.com:

 

Ware Mechanical's forecast:

• Low 90s but expect another heat index of at least 100 degrees. Weather

Today's first headlines:

• Business: A 28-minute video, more of a moving collage of images and memories than anything else, serves as an emotional farewell to East Rome's Kmart. Final days
• Judy Sims, longtime educator and Rome School Board member, has died at age 69. In appreciation
• Politics: Healthy win for Bryson. Plus: Democratic National Convention updates. Politics
• Scaffolding coming down around entrance to Rome's City Hall today. Downtown
• Education: Georgia Milestones scores are out; links take you to expanded results for each local school. Education
• Education: Back to school round-up: Sales Tax Holiday is Saturday, Sunday. Some safety advice from Ready Georgia. And when those first bells ring. Back to school
• Harbin Clinic unveils the 2016 Faces of Hope today from noon-1:30 p.m. Hope
• Dr. Jason Harrison Joins Harbin Clinic Neurosurgery. Health
• Buzz: ECO Center offers a closer look at ... snakes. Floyd Board of Education meets Tuesday. Road work in Polk County. Buzz
• Public Health restaurant inspection scores.  Dining
  
• Remembering Mrs. Florence Deanne 'Boots' Cook. Obituaries
• Area arrest reports brought to you by Dr. Miniyar's Pediatrics. CrimeWatch
  
• Chattahoochee Technical offers two free Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events on Saturday in Acworth.  Safety

Also today:

• Traffic: Georgia DOT, Google Maps or Waze.
• State business headlines: Georgia Trend
  
• Northwest Georgia jobs: Career Builder
  

Chick-fil-A Dwarf House Sports Report

• Registration begins for Tillman 5K, walk on Aug. 20.
• Parks & rec posts fall sports sign-up.
• Rome Braves win 6-5 over the West Virginia Power Tuesday afternoon.
• Next: Off today. At Greenville Thursday-Sunday.
• Mills Fitzner's Rome Braves' home game photo gallery.
• Atlanta Braves: At Minnesota Twins today.
• Links to high school football schedules. Latest check on workouts.

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition, 7-9 a.m., WRGA 98.7 FM.

• At 7:40 a.m.:  Wendy Davis, a super delegate to this week's Democratic National Convention, on what to expect later today.
• At 8:10 a.m.: Scotty Hancock on continued preparations for Aug. 20's Rome Celebrity Dance Challenge.