Latest updates on gas supplies, prices. Part of Professional Court up for sale. Lindale couple dies day apart. 'U' for new Rome restaurant.

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Ware Mechanical forecast:

• Upper 80s for the next few days with 90 due back by the weekend. Weather

Latest local headlines:

• Business: Gas roundup -- latest check on prices, availability and impact on our area. Roundup
• Floyd County Schools report plenty of fuel in stock for buses but some steps being taken just in case. Gas
• Business: Four parts of Professional Court on the market for a combined $875,000, just behind Avenue A off Turner McCall. Business
• Remembering Lindale couple Mr. Randall Bradford "Red" Jones and Mrs. Glenda Ferrell Williamson Jones as they pass a day apart. Also: Kevin Eugene 'Big K' Garrison, Kevin Reynoso. Obituaries
• Bartow EMS: 27-year-old man dies after being crushed by twin 500-pound cotton bales; third work-place fatality in a year. Update
• Buzz: NAACP, 100 Black Men set candidates forum for Oct. 11. Honors for Chieftains. Hospitality Heroes named in Cartersville. Buzz
• Health: Registration for Oct. 15 Harbin Hero Hustle is 50 percent off through 5 p.m. this Friday. Hero
• Georgia Health News: New Beginnings Care, which saw its Rockmart nursing home closed in January, facing more problems. Health
• Public Health restaurant inspection scores.  54/U for new restaurant in Rome.  Dining
• Area arrest reports brought to you by Dr. Miniyar's Pediatrics. CrimeWatch
  

Also today:

• Fall festivals, pumpkin farms and leaf season. Your Northwest Georgia wrap-up. Fall
• Traffic: Georgia DOT, Google Maps or Waze.
• State business headlines: Georgia Trend
  
• Northwest Georgia jobs: Career Builder
  

Chick-fil-A Dwarf House Sports Report

• High School Headlines: Some of the smack talk among the high schools in advance of this week's games.
• John McClellan's high school picks:   No. 6 Darlington over No. 8 Bowdon (private vs. public). Pepperell, Cartersville, Calhoun, Rome should have smooth nights. McClellan
• Georgia High School Football Daily.
• Coosa vs. Pepperell football game up for two Game of the Week votes. How to vote now.
• Weekly soccer report (with additional updates likely).

Colleges

• Berry kicker Mitchell Blanchard honored again.
• Berry College: Saturday vs. Sewanee, 6 p.m. at home. Roster | Schedule |
• Shorter University:  At Delta State, 3 p.m. Saturday.   Roster / Schedule
• Georgia Tech: At home vs. Clemson, Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
• UGA: At Ole Miss, noon Saturday.
• Norman's No-Nos: Next picks posting Friday morning.

Baseball

• Rome Braves' 2016 South Atlantic League championship T-shirts now on sale.
• Mills Fitzner's Rome Braves' 2016 photo gallery.
• Atlanta Braves: At Mets through Wednesday; at Marlins Thursday-Sunday.

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

• Please join our guests including:
• 7:40 a.m.: Steve Trautman and Penny Evans-Plants on the Greater Rome Chamber's annual Geek Week celebration.
• 8:40 a.m.: Patrick DeHaan, an analyst for Gas Buddy since 2009, joins us to talk about local gas prices, the pipeline leak and what's next.