Flood watch for Bartow, Northwest Georgia through 7 p.m. Wednesday. Hurricanes ready ticket sales for Friday's playoff. Business updates. Later today: Bartow County Jail reports, Cartersville Police arrest reports.

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Ware Mechanical forecast

• Flood watch now through 7 p.m. Wednesday across Northwest Georgia. Weather
• 90 percent chance of rain, high of 64, low of 52.

Headlines

• All-day updates on the status of tonight's Rome Christmas Parade. Downtown
• Q102's 'Early Morning Crew' signs off Dec. 11. Chamber prelegislative breakfast Dec. 10. Job updates. Business
• At a glance: Annual Holiday Can-a-thon is Friday. Plus updates from across Northwest Georgia. Briefly
• Smile Report: Floyd Police raise $9,200 with National Child Safety Council appeal; Polk deputies earn $1,000 for Toys Express with 'In God We Trust' stickers. Smile
• Georgia Health News: Scribes -- a new chapter in medical data field. GHN
• Obituaries:  Remembering Mr. Robert Ford, Mrs. Connie P. Hicks, Mrs. Madelyn Elizabeth Cordle Collette, Mr. Christopher Michael West. Services
• Public Health restaurant inspections scores. Rough Monday for restaurants in Rome, Rockmart. Dining
• Area arrest reports brought to you by Dr. Miniyar's Pediatrics. CrimeWatch

Holiday Happenings

• Hometown Headlines has teamed with Harbin Clinic to present Holiday Happenings, a 29-page digital magazine with details on parades, concerts, performances and live Nativity scenes across Northwest Georgia. You can view it in two formats: Desktop or Mobile
  

Regular features:

• 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

• More turnover for Shorter's sports program.
• Conference honors for Berry's Johnson.
• Post-season honors for Rome High's football team.
• John McClellan's high school playoff picks:  Cartersville moves on to the championship game; Calhoun's season ends. Plus: Statewide predictions. McClellan
• Georgia High School Football Daily.
• Norman Arey's Norman's No Nos: How did Norman do?
• The Falcons at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Sunday / The latest on the NFL
  

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition on WRGA 98.7 FM.
Please join our guests including:

• At 7:40 a.m.: A meteorologist from the National Weather Service with a detailed look at this evening's weather and what it could mean to the Rome Christmas Parade (scheduled for 6:30 this evening; rain date, 6:30 p.m. Thursday)
• At 8:10 a.m., Jim Butterworth, the director of Georgia Emergency Management, on this week's winter weather awareness efforts and what you need to know.
• At 8:40 a.m., Rusty Mansell of 247sports.com joins us to talk about the firing of Mark Richt and what's next for Georgia.