Several merchants opting out of Rome's Sunday alcohol package sales. More record-tying heat on the way. Gas up another 4 cents. Remembering Furman Bisher. Jail reports

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-As Rome prepares for Sunday alcohol package sales, some merchants don't plan to join the party.

-Politics 2012: Surprise brewing in the county commission races?

-Cartersville paper ending Monday edition, adding Saturday publication instead.

Northwest Georgia Public Health officials are continuing to spread their precautionary and preventative messages about rabies in 2012 after two cases have been reported here so far this on top of the state-leading 15 cases last year

A shot at the NAIA national basketball championship is on the line Monday at 7 p.m. as the No 1-seeded Hawks take on fourth-seeded Concordia in Kansas City.

Longtime AJC sports columnist Furman Bisher dies. 

Georgia gas prices up 4 cents a gallon, up almost 30 cents from a year ago

Latest forecast: Recordhigh Sunday at 85 degrees.

-Highs will stay in the 80s all week, remaining 15 or more degrees above normal for this time of year.

 

-Monday: Sunny, high of 84, low of 54. Record: 87

-Tuesday: High of 84, low of 54. Record: 85

-Wednesday: High of 81, low of 55.

 

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-Please join our guests Tim Allee, Environmental Health District Director, on rabies concerns in Northwest Georgia; Chad Warner, head coach of the Shorter Hawks basketball team, on tonight's huge game and a shot at the national title; and Kelly McCutcheon, president of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.