Today's top headlines:

• Prayer service tonight at Trinity. Also: Rome Police say protests require permit first. Weekend protests set. Polk authorities investigating threats for this Sunday.


• Funeral services are set for 16-year-old killed in Monday's shooting. Police: Teen wanted for questioning arrested in Cartersville on unrelated charges.


• Another death in Bartow; 2,123 statewide as of Wednesday. Positive tests, 48,894 in Georgia.


• Motorcycle procession through Rome on Wednesday escorts former Marine Evan Tucker Williams home for final services.


• 'Be Green' again! Recycling center, remote sites, curbside pickup all back in action as of today.


• Ware Mechanical Weather Center: Maybe a half-inch of rain through Friday with highs in the upper 80s.


• Truett's Chick-Fil-A Sports Report: 100 youth teams due here for baseball tournament Saturday, Sunday. Another look at Barron Stadium's new turf.

Rant of the Day: Of primary concern ... 

More than 25,000 voters in Northwest Georgia already had made their choices in the twin primaries scheduled for this coming Tuesday, June 9. That doesn't count all the votes that have occurred since Monday, either at advance voting locations or via absentees returned by mail, drop box or drop off.

Those are numbers to celebrate and we've yet to open a single precinct.

That turnout is especially appreciated as the primaries -- plural -- of 2020 have been seemingly lost in the headlines. With one of the meatiest ballots in recent years -- the Floyd sheriff's race, a surprise contest for court clerk, an in-party challenge to a longtime House member and all the commotion over the House seat Tom Graves is giving up -- this was supposed to be an all-star edition of Campaign 2020 with the presidential sweepstakes yet to come in November.

Instead, it is relatively quiet. There are a few last-minute panic posts popping up but, all in all, it has been quiet.

And here's where it gets to be a primary concern.  The next sheriff of Floyd County will have a voice in community relations and incarceration of suspects. State lawmakers will have painful decisions to make about expenditures with depleted resources. The next person to represent Northwest Georgia in Congress will enter a federal government more divided than ever with trillions in debts, mounting pandemic deaths and a very divided America.

While we're thrilled by the turnout to date thanks to absentee and advance voting, we ask this: Please take time to vote -- whether it be advance, absentee or in-person. 

More than ever, your voice, your choice, needs to be heard between now and Tuesday night. Please make it happen