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Area Arrests for March 22
• Ethan Wayne Cook, 18, Flintstone, was charged Thursday by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office with shoplifting and illegal possession of drugs.
• Abraham Jamison, 60, 926 Bennett Lane, Augusta, was charged Thursday by the Dalton Police Department with driving without a license and DUI.
• Ronald Carter Jordan, 46, 709 School St., Dalton, was charged Thursday by the Dalton Police Department with leaving the scene of an accident and DUI.
• Larry Craig Reece, 28, 1775 Lower Kings Bridge Road, Dalton, was charged Thursday by the Murray County Sheriff’s Office with first degree forgery.
• Derek Brian Shipwash, 25, 132 Hawks Way, Chatsworth, was charged Thursday by the Murray County Sheriff’s Office with theft by taking (automobile).
• Ronald Dale Shipwash, 28, 132 Hawks Way, Chatsworth, was charged Thursday by the Murray County Sheriff’s Office with theft by taking (automobile).
• Christopher Laphell Stewart, 36, 721 Aventura Drive, Mount Juliet, Tenn., was charged Thursday by the Tunnel Hill Police Department with possession of marijuana and following too closely.
• Allen Clyde Wooten, 58, 802 Poplar Springs Road, Dalton, was charged Thursday by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office with terroristic threats and acts (family violence).
• Michael Steven Bearden, 53, 275 Gryder Road, Chatsworth, was charged Friday by the Murray County Sheriff’s Office with possession of methamphetamine and possession of tools for the commission of a crime.
• Kevin Isaac Page, 26, 2115 Paris Road, Knoxville, Tenn., was charged Friday by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office with possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute, following too closely, fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer and failure to drive within a single lane.
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New Hope Middle awarded recycling cart
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Brochu: ‘They came to me and recruited me’
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Murray high schools reach field use agreement
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Dalton native earns Seabee honor
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Name not released by Whitfield school system
The Whitfield County Board of Education is scheduled to hold a public hearing Thursday under the Georgia Fair Dismissal Act.
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Residents wary of scams
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Dawn seeks to change guilty plea
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Stephens says voters are concerned about future
Voters are very concerned “and even a little bit scared” about where the United States is going as a country, says former Georgia Senate Majority Leader Bill Stephens.
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DPD looks for “hot” wheels
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Habitat groundbreaking Saturday
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