Author: Staff Reports

Jacob Ryan Short, 19 of Rome, was arrested at the Floyd County Jail Wednesday after a deputy said he lied to him in order to see his incarcerated girlfriend. Reports said that Short told a Sheriff Office official that he needed...

Rome Police responded to a call at an apartment at Ashland Park last weekend to a possible kidnapping.  Reports said that an African American male allegedly forced his way into the home. The man told the resident that if...

According to officials, the body of 22 year-old Rickey Dylan Sisson was recovered in the Etowah River on Tuesday by a fisherman.   Authorities have been searching for Sisson since February 23 when witnesses said that...

Robert Joe Higdon, 57 of Homosassa Springs, was booked into the Floyd County Jail this week after reports said he took $1,550 to perform work on a vehicle and never did it. Police said that the victim shipped him a transmission...