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Category Archives: Bartow County

Lewis back in State Senate race

Lewis back in State Senate race

May 19, 2022–4:56 p.m. WBHF RADIO/STAFF REPORTS Jeff Lewis is back in the contest for State Senate. Late last week, Georgia Administrative Court Judge Charles R Beaudrot recommended Lewis’s candidacy be invalidated. Beaudrot wrote that Lewis had not made the correct filings with respect to his campaign finances by the required deadline The Secretary of…read more

DPH urges parents to talk to their pediatricians for guidance during baby formula shortage

DPH urges parents to talk to their pediatricians for guidance during baby formula shortage

May 19, 2022–7:53 a.m. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) is urging parents unable to find baby formula typically used for their child to contact their pediatrician about appropriate nutritional and safe feeding alternatives. Georgia WIC is working with WIC agencies statewide, local grocers and retailers, and formula manufacturers…read more

DPH urges parents to talk to their pediatricians for guidance during baby formula shortage

DPH urges parents to talk to their pediatricians for guidance during baby formula shortage

May 19, 2022–7:53 a.m. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) is urging parents unable to find baby formula typically used for their child to contact their pediatrician about appropriate nutritional and safe feeding alternatives. Georgia WIC is working with WIC agencies statewide, local grocers and retailers, and formula manufacturers…read more

GA Attorney General Warns of Price Gouging/Scams During Baby Formula Shortage

GA Attorney General Warns of Price Gouging/Scams During Baby Formula Shortage

May 17th, 2022 – 11:50 AM Georgia Attorney General’s – Attorney General Chris Carr is warning Georgia consumers to beware of price gouging and other scams in response to the nationwide baby formula shortage. “With skyrocketing inflation, record-high gas prices, and now an unprecedented shortage of baby formula made worse by the increasingly dire situation…read more

[VIDEO] Cartersville Man arrested in Canton Shooting Incident

[VIDEO] Cartersville Man arrested in Canton Shooting Incident

May 16th, 2022 – 5:45 PM Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office Press Release – (Footage provided to WRGA by Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office) Cherokee Sheriff’s deputies responded to a “shots fired call” Tuesday afternoon, May 10, on Carmichael Circle in the Carmichael Farms subdivision. When deputies arrived, they observed five shell casings in the roadway. Deputies…read more

Georgia gas prices up 15-cents since last week

Georgia gas prices up 15-cents since last week

May 16, 2022–5:40 p.m. AAA SOUTH Georgia gas prices jumped 15-cents a gallon in one week. Georgia motorists are now paying an average price of $3.98 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline. Monday’s state average is 27 cents more than last month and $1.01 more than this time last year. It now costs motorists $59.70 to fill a 15-gallon tank of…read more

Lewis disqualified from State Senate race

Lewis disqualified from State Senate race

May 16, 2022–7:22 a.m. WBHF RADIO One of the candidates in the Republican Primary for Georgia State Senate in District 52 is being disqualified. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has moved to disqualify District 52 State Senate candidate Jeff Lewis from the race. The decision came less than 24 hours after Georgia Administrative Court Judge…read more

Fatal Wreck Reported in Bartow County

Fatal Wreck Reported in Bartow County

May 14th, 2022 – 1:20 pm WBHF Radio – (Via WBHF Radio) Forty-nine-year-old, Travis Michael Woods of Cartersville was fatally wounded in an accident that occurred at the intersection of Burnt Hickory and Mission Roads.  According to Georgia State Patrol reports, the accident occurred May 12, 2022, at 10:55 p.m.  A silver Saturn SUV and…read more

Cassville White Road bridge over I-75 closed this weekend

Cassville White Road bridge over I-75 closed this weekend

May 12, 2022–6:39 p.m. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION If you are going to be traveling in Bartow County this weekend, we have this traffic note. The Cassville White Road Bridge over the interstate will be closed from 7:30 tonight through Monday at 5:30 a.m. while crews continue construction on the two roundabouts at the I-75…read more

Record Early Voting Turnout Continues

Record Early Voting Turnout Continues

May 12th, 2022 – 11:35 PM Georgia Secretary of State’s Office – Early voting for the May 24 primary election continues. Floyd County voters can cast ballots at the new elections office located in the health department building on East 12th Street and at the Anthony Recreation Center in Garden Lakes between the hours of…read more