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ATLANTA --The Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) will help artificial-turf manufacturer Field Turf hire about 90 workers for its facility in Gordon County.

Powered by a late surge, Georgia’s enrollment in the 2015 health insurance exchange easily surpassed the half-million mark.

Rome entrepreneur Greg Sumner is seeking to develop apartments in a couple of buildings in the 200 block of Broad Street. His plans call for one of the buildings to include apartments on the ground floor — something that doesn’t exist at this time.

Monday’s edition of Roman Record reveals details of at least nine real estate transfers valued in excess of $100,000. The biggest deal of the past week involved a residential property in the Stonebridge community. Check out Roman Record to see who paid more than $330,000 for a new home.

NEW YORK (AP) — A key U.S. stock index is back at a record high as the energy sector recovers along with the price of oil.

Jarrod Wiegman, M.D., has joined the Floyd Family Medicine Residency program as a faculty member. He will see patients at Floyd Medical Center and the Family Medicine Residency Center and will train recently graduated physicians during their next stage of education.

ROME, Ga. --- Students with creative minds and big ideas are invited to the Berry College Student Enterprises “Spark Conference 2015” Feb. 27-28.

Rome's Radio Shack store is among 1,800 locations closing by the end of March as the electronics retailer seeks bankruptcy reorganization.

Kamran Kurani, owner of these locations of Pizza Hut/ Wingstreet, answers the questions for today’s Small Business Snapshot.

Rome-based R.H. Ledbetter Properties has acquired a 35.4-acre tract in the heart of Panama City, Florida, for a commercial development called Bay City Point.

Drivers filling up their gas tanks Wednesday suffered from a bit of shock as local gas prices rose as much as 16 cents overnight.

The Little Caesars Love Kitchen will roll into the Rome Floyd Community Soup Kitchen to provide fresh Little Caesars pizza meals for approximately 275 people in need on Friday, Feb. 6.

In what one would have to consider an odd twist of fate, Big Bear’s BBQ owner David Barrentine said Monday the success of his business on Dean Street was a huge factor in his decision to close the restaurant.

Amazing developments in technology will take center stage at the DeSoto Theatre next month for the Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce Confluence conference.

A local businessman has decided to end his pursuit of a permanent food truck park on Shorter Avenue for now, citing code requirements that made the venture undoable at this time.

News Publishing Co., the owner of the Rome News-Tribune, will be sold to Times-Journal Inc. after the Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, approval of the deal by a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge.

The Rome Braves and Rome Radio Partners announce that a multiyear radio broadcasting agreement has been reached. Fans will be able to hear all regular season games on 99.5 FM the Jock. The station’s Sports Director Kevin Karel will handle play-by-play duties for all 140 games and will be joined by Clarke Johnson as color analyst during the home broadcasts.

As the leading supplier of work, garden, high-performance and cleaning gloves in the world, Rome-based Big Time Products was recently named one of America’s Most Promising Companies by Forbes for the second consecutive year.

United Community Banks Inc. has been recognized as one of America’s best performing banks by Forbes magazine.

First-time claims for unemployment benefits filed by Floyd County residents shot up sharply from November to December.

Local architects and engineering firms are among the six that submitted proposals to the city of Rome to redevelop the 133-acre tract housing the defunct Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital.