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The City of LaFayette will be closed Thursday and Friday this week for Thanksgiving.  Thursday's garbage pick-up will happen on Wednesday, along with the regular Wednesday pickup.  The Walker County Tax Commissioners Office will also be closed Thursday and Friday. A Walker County Sheriff's Deputy... Read More.

No school in Walker County this week. Classes resume on Monday December 2nd. The City of LaFayette will be closed Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving. Thursday's garbage service will be picked up on Wednesday along with the regular Wednesday pick up. Georgia Department of Labor Commissioner... Read More.

The City of LaFayette will be closed Thursday and Friday of next week for Thanksgiving. Thursday's garbage will be picked up on Wednesday along with Wednesday's regular pick up. Georgia Labor Commissioner Bruce Thompson says unemployment in Northwest Georgia last month was up one-tenth of... Read More.

A fourth suspect in the homicide that left a Chickamauga man dead has been arrested. Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson announced yesterday afternoon that 23-year-old Brayden Whatley or Rossville had surrendered to authorities at the jail on Wednesday morning. Whatley has been charged with... Read More.

The Walker County Sheriff's Office arrested an 18-year-old at Ridgeland High School on Tuesday for assaulting two students.  The school incident report says Clark Imhoff stabbed the victim in the hand with a pencil after they offered Imhoff an oatmeal cream pie.  The sheriff's... Read More.

Yesterday afternoon the Walker County Sheriff's Office announced the arrests of three people in connection with a murder that happened on Halloween.  Police responded to a call just after midnight on November 1st on Johnson Road in Chickamauga.  Officers found the body of 25-year-old Dakota... Read More.

A Rossville man has been sentenced to 66 years in prison.  41-year-old Jarred Hosh pled guilty on November 8th to three counts of sexually exploiting a child, one count of soliciting another to commit child molestation and one count of soliciting another to sexually exploit... Read More.

An update on a story from last week about injuries that happened on a school bus in the Ridgeland High School parking lot. The incident happened last Wednesday, November 6th.   According to news reports, a video from the bus shows several students standing up in... Read More.

A Chattanooga man was killed Tuesday night in Chattooga County while on the run from police.  56-year-old Anthony Wayne Holcomb was pronounced dead at the scene.  The Chattooga County Sheriff's Office tried to make a stop on the vehicle driven by Holcomb just after... Read More.

IN ROSSVILLE, WALKER COUNTY OFFICIALS BROKE GROUND ON IT'S FIRST SO CALLED SIGNATURE PARK YESTERDAY.  ADVENTURE ACRES... OFF SALEM ROAD WILL HAVE A NATURE-THEMED PLAYGROUND, SPLASH PAD, WALKING TRAIL AND PAVILION WITH   RESTROOM FACILITIES.  COMMISSION CHAIR SHANNON WHITFIELD SAYS THE NEW COMPLEX SHOULD INCREASE... Read More.

The Catoosa County Sheriff's Office is asking for help in finding two missing teens.  Tobias Gambrell is 14-years old.  Gambrell left a location on Roswell Road sometime between 1:30am and 8am Sunday morning.  He was spotted yesterday at a Mapco gas station on Lee... Read More.

Administrators with Walker County Schools and law enforcement are investigating an incident involving a school bus on Wednesday.  Superintendent Damon Raines says a school bus driver was moving at a slow speed on Ridgeland High’s campus when the driver was forced to make an... Read More.