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Sunday, January 27, 2013

GSP: Woodstock Man Leads Cops on Chase Through Bartow, Crashes in Cobb

Winston Keith Wiggins, 45, of Woodstock, faces DUI, fleeing and eluding police, speeding and aggravated assault charges after allegedly running a Bartow County road block.

Authorities say a Woodstock man ran a road block Saturday night in Bartow County, leading officers on chase that ended in a crash in Cobb County. Georgia State Patrol spokesman Gordy Wright said Winston Keith Wiggins, 45, was arrested after he allegedly failed to stop at Old Alabama and Bates roads near Emerson where troopers and Bartow County Sheriff's Office deputies were conducting a license check. The Nissan Titan he was driving crashed on Interstate 75 at Canton Road in Cobb County after authorities attempted a traffic stop, Wright added. Wiggins faces a number of charges, including felony fleeing and attempting to elude, DUI, two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, reckless driving and speeding—120 mph in a 70 …

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Georgia State Patrol (in Cartersville Patch) and Bartow County Sheriff's Office (in Cartersville Patch)

Thursday, December 15, 2011

I-575 Toll Project Crashes to Halt

The state drops plans for a public-private partnership to ease highway congestion through Cherokee County.

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  • Thursday, December 15, 2011

If you were geared up for toll lanes along Interstates 75 and 575 in a few years, well, not so fast. The state Transportation Board pulled the plug Wednesday on the public-private partnership planned to propel the Northwest Corridor Project. The head of the state committee overseeing the $1.1 billion project, Brandon Beach, announced the decision in a two-sentence statement posted on the state Department of Transportation website. The state thus canceled a bidding process that was launched with great fanfare this fall and was supposed to end in February. It also might have doomed a project that the state DOT started working on a decade ago. Three groups of contractors were preparing bids, the Atlanta Business Chronicle said: West by …

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Northwest Corridor Project to Resolve I-575 Traffic Congestion (in Northeast Cobb Patch), C.W. Matthews Contracting Company (in Marietta Patch), Council Hears Update on Northwest Atlanta Corridor Study (in Northeast Cobb Patch), and 2 more ›

jcwauford@comcast.net

9:08 pm on Thursday, December 15, 2011

I've read bad things about similar operations. Maybe they were biased, maybe not,but I don't think the plan was good. So, to me this sounds like good news.   more ›

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