Photo update from Main Street Marketplace as Kroger, Freddy's get closer. Cartersville vs. Allatoona: Tickets on sale online; webcast available Friday night. Rain likely Thursday. Later today: Bartow County Jail reports, Cartersville Police updates.

Where the news is much more than agendas and arrests: www.bartowheadlines.com 

 

Ware Mechanical's forecast:

• 60% chance of rain by Thursday; 50% Friday. Highs in the low 90s. Weather

Today's first headlines:

• Business: Main Street Marketplace just about ready in Cartersville. Photo package shows Freddy's, Kroger Marketplace, other new tenants. Business
• Georgia Health News: Mixed results for nursing homes in our area -- four one-star (lowest) and five five-star (highest); low scores overall statewide. Local scores
• Job fairs today through Friday across Northwest Georgia. Jobs
• Buzz: High School Leadership Rome XXIX under way. Archbishop to install new Saint Mary's pastor tonight. Buzz
• With three days left to vote in the #harbinherochallenge, it's Summit Quest way out front with a battle for the no. 5 spot. Hashtag away
• Education: School Night for Scouting sign-ups begin this week. School-by-school schedule for area counties. Scouts
• Remembering Ms. Eloise Lovenia Cammon, Keith Corbin Hopkins, Mr. Marshall Shelton. Obituaries
• Public Health restaurant inspection scores returns. 61 for Asian restaurant in Rome.  Dining
  
• Three charged in five-state, $100,000 theft ring tied to outlet malls, including those in Calhoun and Woodstock. Thefts
• Murray–Gordon County joint investigation nets $100,000 worth of meth, two suspects; third man sought. Wanted
• 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

• John McClellan's high school football report: Season opening wins for Darlington, Calhoun, Adairsville; Cartersville to fall to Allatoona; rough night for Rockmart, Cedartown.  Click McClellan
• Cartersville vs. Allatoona: How to buy tickets online; webcast available Friday night.
• Georgia High School Football Daily.
• Rome Braves were off Monday.  At home vs. Hagerstown, today-Thursday.
• Mills Fitzner's Rome Braves' home game photo gallery.
• Atlanta Braves: Off Monday. At home vs. Minnesota, today-Wednesday.
• Berry, Shorter counting down to opening weekend of college football.

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

• Please join our guests including:
• At 7:40 a.m.: Billy Fricks, an associate pastor at Pleasant Valley South Baptist Church, on efforts to gather relief supplies for flood-ravaged residents of Louisiana.
• At 8:10 a.m.: Mike Dunn, general manager of the Rome Braves, as the team makes a late-season playoff push and returns to Rome for a three-game set starting tonight.
• At 8:40 a.m.: Randall McCord talks some high school football history and his book, The Cotton Picking Centre Warriors.