Georgia Power layoffs include some at Hammond, Bowen. Bankers unite to support First Responders. No relief from the heat. Later today: Bartow County Jail reports, Cartersville Police updates.

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

 

Ware Mechanical's forecast:

• No break in the heat as temperatures climb higher into the 90s. Weather

Today's first headlines:

• Business: Some layoffs at plants Hammond, Bowen as Georgia Power makes some 'personnel adjustments.' Georgia Power
• 'Bankers United for First Reponders' to offer breakfast, lunch to extended law enforcement community Friday in Rome. Appreciation
• State Patrol: No charges in the accident that left motorcycle Officer Mike Simmons hospitalized. GSP
• Heard on the Tweet: Target truck at closing Kmart? 'Serial' podcast spinoff focuses on Rome murder. Help wanted. Heard
• Business: Top Gun Powder Coating & Architectural Coating adding new plant, 60 jobs to Adairsville. Business
• Wednesday RNC updates from David Guldenschuh: Hometown Radio report at 7:40 this morning. RNC
• Traffic light adjacent to Main Street Marketplace (new mega Kroger) due on July 26. New light
• Smile Report: Floyd County Sheriff's Sgt. Nick Yarbrough named employee of the quarter. Smile
• Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Hugh P. Thompson retiring in January. Court
• Georgia Health News: Study sees expansion's impact on state's uninsured. Health
• Remembering Mr. Seaborn Wright Alexander Jr., Ms. Janie Joyce Gibson, Eric Christian Hoffmann. Obituaries
• Public Health restaurant inspection scores.  Dining
  
• Area arrest reports brought to you by Dr. Miniyar's Pediatrics. CrimeWatch

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

• Rome Braves off Tuesday
• Next: Lexington in town today-Friday; West Virginia Saturday-Tuesday.
• Mills Fitzner's Rome Braves' home game photo gallery.
• Atlanta Braves: At Cincinnati Reds, today.
• Links to high school football schedules this fall.
• Big honors for Berry's baseball team.

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition, 7-9 a.m., WRGA 98.7 FM. Coming up Monday:

• At 7:40 a.m.:  Rome attorney David Guldenschuh of Rome who's attending the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week.
• At 8:10 a.m.: Bankers United for First Responders on Friday's breakfast, lunch for all area law enforcement officials -- police, fire, EMS, E-911.