Feature Story

SIXTY SIX YEARS AGO: “”Let Our Hearts Be Stout”

Posted under Feature Story on June 4th, 2010 by admin 9 Comments

June 4, 2010
On the evening of June 5, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered an address to the nation, telling them that Allied forces had liberated Rome, Italy. Partnered with Great Britain’s Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, Roosevelt had known for more than a year that this liberation of Rome was ONLY the precursor to the […]

A Memorial Day Remembrance

Posted under Feature Story on May 30th, 2010 by admin 7 Comments

May 30, 2010
Two years this past May 23rd, on a Friday evening, my husband and I were returning home from the retirement party of a friend, GBI Special Agent J.W. (J.P.) Foster. As we walked into the house I could hear the end of the prerecorded message of our answering machine conclude, and the next […]

LET’S PLAY MAKE BELIEVE

Posted under Feature Story on May 18th, 2010 by admin 18 Comments

May 18, 2010
You all remember playing “Let’s pretend” when we were little.  In our fanciful make believe worlds, ANYTHING was possible, and we could be super heroes or mommies, cowboys or cops and robbers and fairy princesses.
Reality was whatever we spoke out loud, like “Let’s pretend all of us girls are fairy princess and the […]

Judge Kristina Cook Connelly Formally Reprimanded for Violations of Judicial Canon of Ethics

Posted under Feature Story on May 11th, 2010 by admin 11 Comments

May 13, 2010 UPDATE: It’s Official
The Judicial Qualifications Commission has posted the documents relative to the Public Reprimand of Kristina Cook Connelly Graham, on their website at www.jqc.org.
Readers can access the documents by clicking on the “Recent Commission Actions and Notices” found on the left hand side of the JQC’s Homepage.
Teresa Watson
May 11, 2010

The courtroom […]

Federal Homecoming?

Posted under Feature Story on May 1st, 2010 by admin 2 Comments

May 1, 2010
Yesterday looked like Homecoming Day from the 2008 Mexican Mafia Trial. AUSAs Kim Dammers and Wil Traynor took their positions at the prosecution table, along ICE Special Agent Tim Everhart, while seated in the court room gallery were Polk County Assistant Chief of Police Kiki Campbell, Polk County Detective Joe Weldon, as well […]

RGS – YOU ASKED FOR IT, YOU GOT!

Posted under Feature Story on April 27th, 2010 by admin 10 Comments

April 27, 2010

For quite some time, now, since beginning the articles on the Jeff Green beating by the late Bradley Allen Williams, and continuing through until this most recent series on the excessive force beating of Jeff Green by some local law enforcement officers, a local internet personality, RomeGaSir has been challenging me about certain […]

Judge Dismisses TPO Filed by Floyd County Deputy Wilson Against Jeff Green

Posted under Feature Story, Current News, Breaking News on April 8th, 2010 by admin 58 Comments

April 8, 2010
This morning, Floyd County Superior Court Judge Tami Colston dismissed the Temporary Protection Order filed by Floyd County Deputy William McGhee (Ghee) Wilson, against Jeff Green.
About ten minutes into to today’s calendar call, when Wilson v Green was called, Deputy Wilson was a NO-SHOW.  Mel Hewitt and Hilary Wayne of the Marietta based […]

BEHOLD, THE LAMB of GOD

Posted under Feature Story on April 4th, 2010 by admin 0 comments

Psalm 22
1My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises […]

Arch Farrar Rides Again: More Chattooga County Land Grabs

Posted under Feature Story on January 31st, 2010 by admin 29 Comments

January 31, 2010
Readers may remember the Luke Puckett story from back in fall of 2007. Chattooga County attorney Arch Farrar played a significant role in the real estate deed search gone bad, which resulted, one way or another, in the death of outsider Luke Puckett. In fact, Arch Farrar’s brother-in-law, Rome, Georgia attorney and close […]

When in the Course of Human Events…Why Re-Invent the Wheel?

Posted under Feature Story on December 29th, 2009 by admin 3 Comments

December 29, 2009
Dear Fellow Citizens:
Do we have to accept the impending Health Care Legislation?  Must be continue to bail out banks and car manufacturers?Should we stand idly by while illegal aliens are embraced, given social services at our expense through oppressive taxes – all while they destroy our culture through their violence, human trafficking and […]