Police and Fire
Instructor Mark Wiles discuss strategies with visiting fire professionals during a meeting in Cedartown. (Agnes Hagin/thepolkfishwrap.com)
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A multi-agency National Fire Prevention and Education Team has brought a message of education and wildfire prevention to Polk and Haralson counties during the past week.
The group, comprised of pro...
May 17, 2013 | 0 | 4 |
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Undercover op discovers 12 Polk stores selling alcohol to underage individuals
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The discovery of three women in a Cleveland home who all had gone missing separately about a decade ago brings to mind cases of abductions elsewhere. A list of some prominent cases:
JAYCEE DUGARD
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No one was injured in a mid-morning wreck on Piedmont Highway near Cedartown, according to police.
The one-vehicle wreck happened seven miles west of the truck route intersection with Highway 278.
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Police arrested five people and seized drugs and a number of suspected stolen items in a drug bust at a Canal Street residence Wednesday, May. 1
A search warrant was executed at 247 Canal St., Ceda...
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Cedartown police needs the public’s help to find a man suspected in a robbery at local convenience store.
According to Lt. Craig Payton, a man with a gun robbed the Marathon Convenience Store at 13...
May 01, 2013 | 0 | 4 |
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PANAMA CITY, FLA. — Prosecutors in Panama City are seeking to revoke the bond of a Georgia teen who officials believe faked his death and traveled to Denver.
According to court records in Bay Coun...
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Cedartown city commissioners and local law enforcement agencies recently expressed concern over a potentially dangerous situation involving speeding vehicles and chemical-hauling tanker trucks.
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Good things happen when folks work together, according to a local law enforcement official.
Cedartown Assistant Police Chief Jamie Newsome said he and other law enforcement leaders, including Polk ...
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Two burglary suspects were in police custody within 20 minutes of the dispatch call, according to Cedartown Assistant Police Chief Jamie Newsome.
Newsome said two residents of an Adam Avenue house ...
DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) — Witnesses described a frantic scene and close calls after an elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a small Virginia mountain town's parade. Investigators were looking into whether the motorist had suffered a medical emergency before the accident.
Sun May 19 03:19:10 UTC 2013
By Tim Cocks LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's military said on Saturday it had killed 10 insurgents and arrested 65 more as part of an offensive meant to wrest back control of parts of its remote northeast from an Islamist group seen as the main security threat to Africa's top oil producer. President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian southerner, had been accused of not taking seriously enough the violence in the largely Muslim north where some fear Islamist insurgents allied to al Qaeda could take over large swathes of territory as they did in Mali before French-led troops ejected them this year. ...
Sun May 19 03:17:57 UTC 2013
By Joe Bavier ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Authorities in Ivory Coast on Saturday arrested a militia leader accused of participating in one of the worst massacres committed during the West African nation's post-election violence in 2011, a military official and witness said. Some 3,000 people were killed in the brief armed conflict that broke out after incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo refused to acknowledge defeat at the hands of his rival Alassane Ouattara in a run-off poll in late 2010. ...
Sun May 19 03:14:09 UTC 2013