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Fort Oglethorpe's monthly Cruse-In events crank up Saturday
The Cruise-In car shows in Fort Oglethorpe are starting up again this month. The events will take place on the third Saturday of each month until November beginning at 4 p.m. until dark. LaFayette...
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Student drug testing policies inconsistent across region
Testing students for drug use is tricky business, so while some local school systems recently have adopted policies, others have experimented and stopped testing altogether. In December, Bradley C...
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Tonya Craft Campaign for Craft includes website, T-shirts, bumper stickers — and tonight, a fundraiser
A fundraiser will be held tonight for Tonya Craft, the former Chickamauga kindergarten teacher scheduled to go on trial in Catoosa County Superior Court for 22 counts of sexual crimes against chil...
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January unemployment rises to 11.6 percent in northwest Georgia area
The Georgia Department of Labor reported today that the preliminary unadjusted unem-ployment rate in the northwest Georgia area rose to 11.6 percent in January, up seven-tenths of one percentage p...
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Costco deadline moved up to get store open by August
Fort Oglethorpe mayor Ronnie Cobb says the construction company is working to get the site where Costco Wholesales wants to build ready by May 10. The new deadline will give Costco more time to ge...
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Ringgold man sentenced for providing alcohol to teen killed in 2008 crash
A criminal court case in Judge Rebecca Sterns courtroom yesterday resulted in Trevor Guthrie age 42 pleading guilty to providing alcohol to minors and receiving a sentence of 11 months/29 days. He...
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The Ringgold Depot will be the site of a National Day of Prayer on May 6. From left: pastor Clyde Painter of Lake-side Baptist Church in Rocky Face, Ringgold mayor Joe Barger, and youth pastor Kyle Taylor of Parkway Baptist Temple in Fort Oglethorpe. (Catoosa News photo/Adam Cook)
Ringgold plans Day of Prayer event for May 6
Ringgold City Council, during its regular meeting Monday night, approved a Day of Prayer event to take place May 6 at the Depot. “It’s a special event, and we’re really excited about it,” said Cly...
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Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office report for Feb. 26 to March 4, 2010
The Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office, during Feb. 26 to March 4, answered 1,437 calls, including 74 that were booked on a total of 138 counts. The violations included both misdemeanor and felony ch...
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Georgia Northwestern in "wait and see" mode on budget cuts
by Mark Andrews
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According to news reports, colleges and universities statewide are expecting to lay off thousands of employees, eliminate programs and raise tuition in order if the state's higher education system ...
Author Dan Jolley visits Lakeview Middle School
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Top photo: Author Dan Jolley, a graduate of Ringgold High School, spoke to students at Lakeview Middle School on Friday, March 5, on his career and works. Jolley is a novelist, a comic book writer ...
Ringgold fifth-graders donate $580 to "Pennies for Peace"
by Adam Cook
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Shortly after Thanksgiving, Melody Moore and her fifth-grade students at Ringgold Elementary School, began a project to help less-fortunate children in Pakistan. Each day since, the students have d...
Catoosa County power outage
by WTVC News Channel 9, Chattanooga
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Catoosa County 911 confirmed an apparent tranformer explosion knocked out power to a number of homes and businesses in the Ringgold area Monday night. Click here to read article Become a CatW...
Fort Oglethorpe fire destroys apartment, severely damages another
by WDEF News Channel 12, Chattanooga
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At least one apartment is a total loss and a second is severely damaged after a fire Monday in Ft. Oglethorpe. It happened at the Cedar Brook Apartments just before noon. One man is being called a ...
Defense files host of motions in case of former Chickamauga teacher accused of child molestation
by Josh O’Bryant
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More than 30 motions have been filed in Catoosa County Superior Court in the case of a former Chickamauga school teacher accused of molesting three children. On Monday, Judge Brian House presided ...
Agenda for Fort Oglethorpe City Council’s meeting tonight
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Before the regularly scheduled Fort Oglethorpe City Council meeting at 6:30 p.m. today, a company from Florida will present information about a new recycling program at 6 p.m. The public is welcome...
Maglev money still MIA
by Chattanooga Times Free Press
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Some North Georgia leaders say they may not help fund a study to connect Atlanta and Chattanooga via high-speed rail. The Federal Railroad Administration in September awarded $13.8 million for a ma...
Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, jumping past Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the first person from a developing nation to top the list, according to Forbes magazine.
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Wed Mar 10 23:17:27 -0600 2010
The Afghan Taliban's leadership has dispersed to cities across Pakistan to avoid arrest after the recent detention of senior militants, officials and militants say.
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Thu Mar 11 00:23:20 -0600 2010
Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican", according to the Holy See's chief exorcist.
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Wed Mar 10 15:26:57 -0600 2010