CLEVELAND
Bad weather has forced the second cancellation of Sunday’s planned groundbreaking ceremony for Cleveland High School’s new Max R. Carroll Science Wing, Cleveland City Schools spokesman Chuck Rockholt said Friday.
The ceremony was canceled two weeks ago and moved to Valentine’s Day.
Burglary suspect faces new charges
A suspect in burglaries at nine homes in Bradley County has been indicted on 20 more counts of aggravated burglary and theft, according to a news release.
Robert Gene Rogers; his nephew, Zachery Nathaniel Lee Dockery, and a 16-year-old were arrested in November in a home on Old Parksville Trail.
Those arrests cleared nine active cases for the Cleveland Police Department and the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office, the release stated.
In most of the burglaries the primary item taken was jewelry.
LaFAYETTE, Ga.
Man target of sheriff’s search
The Walker County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man wanted on four felony warrants for aggravated child molestation, enticing a child for indecent purposes, aggravated sodomy and aggravated sexual battery, according to a news release.
Joel Walton Bostick is black, 6 feet tall and weighs about 200 pounds, according to the release. He is believed to be in the Chattanooga/North Georgia area and was last seen driving a 1997 black Cadillac Deville with Georgia tag AKG-9921.
Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Sgt. Michelle Brown at 706-638-1909, ext. 270, or the Walker County 911 dispatch center at 706-375-7810.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Tri-state gets medical stimulus
Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama collectively will receive about $35 million in new stimulus grants to help health care providers adopt and use electronic medical recordkeeping, according to a news release.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced a total of almost $1 billion, including $750 million for health information technology and $225 million to help train nearly $15,000 people for careers in health care, information technology and other high-growth fields, the release stated.
The awards include nearly $11.7 million to the state of Tennessee, $13 for the Georgia Department of Community Health and $10.5 million for the Alabama Medicaid Agency.
ATLANTA
Aquarium to get 4 harbor seal pups
The Georgia Aquarium is getting four harbor seal pups on Monday.
The tan, brown and gray seals, who were born last year, are between 3 and 4 feet long and weigh up to 114 pounds.
They are expected to double their weight in the next four to six weeks.
The seals typically spend half their time on land and half in the sea.