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Ball Container Agrees To Pay $309K In Discrimination Settlement
Rome-based Ball Container LLC has agreed to a legal settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor to pay $309,000 in back wages and interest to resolve a discrimination complaint at the company’s beverage manufacturing facility in Rome. The issue was discovered in a routine compliance review by the department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. That review found that, from Feb. 1, 2020, through Jan. 31, 2021, Ball Container discriminated against 192 Black applicants for production technician positions at the facility. ...
Kennesaw Man Accused of Child Molestation at Bus Stop
Julian Albert Wright, 26, of Kennesaw, is accused of performing a sex act while watching children in the presence of a child under the age of 16 while they were walking to the bus stop on Chastain Meadows Parkway near a Marietta apartment building Sept. 10 at 7:30 a.m., according to an arrest warrant from the Cobb County Police Department. Wright is charged with loiter prowl; child molestation felony; and public indecency. He was arrested on Sept. 10 at 6:30 p.m. and booked into the Cobb County Adult Detention Center, according to jail records. Wright remains in custody without bond.
Around Town: U.S. 411 Picks Up Another Multimillion-Dollar Tenant. As Home Starts Soar, Sales Are So-So
There’s nothing hotter in major development right now than the highway connecting Rome to Cartersville as another $235 million project has been announced. The Highway 411 West Industrial Park project, off U.S. 411 near the $5 billion SK On/Hyundai electric battery campus, includes three refrigerated industrial buildings with more than 1 million square feet under roof. ♦ It is expected to generate $2.6 million in taxes each year. ...
Man Accused of Committing Battery on an Elderly Man
Christopher Bryan Russell, 49, of Atlanta, is accused of grabbing a pillow from a nearby chair and hitting the elderly male victim in the head and arms, resulting in multiple marks and bruising, on Sept. 6 at 1:35 p.m. at Ross Memorial Health Care Center, 1780 Old 41 Highway NW in Kennesaw, according to an arrest warrant from the Kennesaw Police Department. Nursing staff reported the marks and bruises were not on the victim before Russell took him outside. The victim is in hospice care...
Riverside Buys Nissan Dealership 2 Years After Last Sale
There are a lot of ways Andy Welborn could have celebrated his family's five decades of auto sales in Northwest Georgia. So he went big. That's why you're seeing the "Riverside" signs now on the Nissan dealership on the bypass across from Unity Christian School. Welborn said a "no brainer of a deal" arose to purchase the dealership from Shottenkirk -- something of a surprise as Heritage Nissan was sold...
Teen Sentenced for Killing 15-Year-Old in Smyrna Car Crash
A Douglasville teen will serve seven years in prison for his role in a car crash that killed a 15-year-old in Smyrna last year, according to the Cobb County District Attorney's Office. Garrett Tyler Betts, 19, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15 years, but will serve seven, according to the district attorney’s office. Investigators believe Betts was street racing when he drove 100 mph on East-West Connector near Creekside...
Candlelight Service Tonight Marks Start of Mental Illness Awareness Events
This is Mental Illness Awareness Week and NAMI Rome has planned two events, each intending to target different demographics who are unaware or in need of the organization’s services. The first event will be the 20th Annual Candlelight Service on Tuesday evening. It will be held at the Greater Bethlehem Temple Holiness Church, 401 Nixon Ave. SW, at 7 p.m. The service will be held in the South Rome church...
Floyd County To Buy School Security Tools For Police
The Floyd County Commission is poised to approve the purchase of $22,550 worth of school security and training tools for the police department, using school traffic camera fines. It’s one of several Floyd County Police Department funding requests the board will consider at its Tuesday meeting, set for 11 a.m. in the County Administration Building, 12 E. Fourth Ave. The early meeting kicks off with a 9 a.m. caucus where...
Auburn commit Kail Singleton reclassifies to 2025 class
One Auburn football commit can not wait to join the Tigers roster. Kail Ellis, a four-star offensive lineman from Cartersville, Georgia, announced Sunday that he will reclassify to Auburn’s 2025 class, forgoing his 12th-grade year at Cass High School. Ellis committed to Auburn last November, five months after receiving...
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