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A few minutes before taking rocks from his pocket and dropping them on a table, Pastor Richard Smith, pastor of the Virtuous Church in Dalton, spoke of the woman caught committing adultery in the Bible (John 8:3-11) and the men who wanted to stone her.

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ATLANTA — Joy Robinson has been teaching long enough to remember when teacher pay raises weren’t such a rarity.

Whitfield County Environmental Health conducts inspections of restaurants and other food establishments. The inspectors may require a re-inspection. Restaurants and other food establishments are required by law to post their most recent inspection permit. The Daily Citizen-News lists areas w…

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A small high school gym packed each time the boys basketball team plays. That team defeats teams from much larger schools on its way to a championship.

Michael Brandon Townsend stood silently as Whitfield County Superior Court Judge Jim Wilbanks spoke on Friday.

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A Murray County man was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 10 years on probation after pleading guilty to child molestation.

ATLANTA — The demotion of the state Senate’s highest ranking Republican woman has sparked a bipartisan outcry at the statehouse.

Dalton's next director of tourism could be a familiar face.

A Murray County man who shot and killed his estranged wife and then shot himself in the face during a standoff with law enforcement pleaded guilty to malice murder on Thursday and was sentenced to life in prison. Oliver Scott Cannon will have to serve 30 years from the date of his arrest bef…

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ATLANTA — Freshly sworn-in Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he will announce a “historic and well deserved pay raise” for teachers when he delivers his first state-of-the-state address on Thursday.

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One of the men involved in a November 2017 phony drug deal that saw a man shot was sentenced to eight years in prison followed by 12 years on probation after he pleaded guilty to armed robbery in Whitfield County Superior Court, officials said.

Drivers passing by the Food City under construction at the intersection of West Walnut Avenue and Tibbs Road may have noticed that it looks ready to open.

ATLANTA — In an effort to ensure families receive the food they need while the federal government is in a partial shutdown, the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) has released the February allotment of food stamp benefits early to all Georgia residents.

Construction for Dalton High School's original opening was completed in 1977, and the last new school-sized construction project completed by Dalton Public Schools was in 2005 with the opening of Blue Ridge Elementary School.

COHUTTA — The Carbondale Business Park could have new, expanded sewer by the end of the year.

Jasmine Madden, Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration 2019 co-chair, hopes new events will boost ticket sales this year.

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ATLANTA -- When proponents of Georgia-grown medical cannabis argue their case this legislative session, they will have a major hurdle to overcome with some lawmakers: Marijuana's outlaw status on the federal level.

The following is a statement from Hamilton Health Care System concerning the recovery of most of the $1.26 million the hospital was scammed out of late last year.

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Georgia Gov.-elect Brian Kemp promised in Dalton Saturday to be "a governor that's going to be working for our whole state, all four corners and everywhere in between."

Law enforcement officers put their lives on the line every day.

ATLANTA -- A proposal to raise cash for rural broadband through a broadened communications tax has the backing of a key state lawmaker.

"I have hit him in the face and if he keeps it up I might do it again, me and my daughter can't handle this no more," one of two women found dead early Thursday morning in Whitfield County had told a 911 operator two days before.

The Murray County Board of Education has named a school system veteran as its new superintendent.

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The city of Dalton began tearing down the former Econo Lodge off Tampico Way this week. Members of the City Council voted in August to tear down the building but demolition was delayed after asbestos was discovered in the building and had to be removed. Demolition is expected to be completed…

A Whitfield County man told a 911 operator he “just lost my mind” and choked two women he shared a home with on Tanglewood Drive after one of the women ''triggered" him. 

A man who was found guilty in December of aggravated child molestation and 11 other charges relating to two victims under the age of 16 was sentenced to 25 years in prison without the possibility of parole followed by life on probation on Wednesday.

The Greater Dalton Chamber of Commerce has thrown its weight behind a proposed six-year, $100 million Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST).

State Rep. Jason Ridley said Thursday after a Greater Dalton Chamber of Commerce breakfast that "if some people around here would leave it alone and stop threatening me with stuff" it might be easier for him to sign onto a bill that would allow Dalton Utilities to borrow money for electric a…

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If construction stays on schedule, it will be 20 months from groundbreaking to opening the door of the Phase II Project of Georgia Northwestern Technical College's Whitfield Murray Campus. After the August 2017 groundbreaking in Dalton, the 80,000-square-foot facility will begin seeing its f…

Following in the footsteps of his sister, Nysia Mack, a fourth-grader at Park Creek School, third-grader Omari Mack turned in paperwork to join the school's running club last September.

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