Today's top headlines:

• A 'young male' dead following a shooting on Grady Avenue off Calhoun Avenue Monday evening, Rome Police report.


• Business: Twin pieces of East Sixth Avenue across from federal courthouse on the market.


• Georgia death toll climbs to 2,089. Positive tests will top 48,000 on Tuesday. 


• Floyd County Judicial Center closed through Wednesday after employee tests positive for coronavirus.


• Trinity United Methodist Church to host ecumenical service for all Thursday evening.


• Coosa Valley Credit Union once again is replacing torn or faded American flags across Northwest Georgia. Here's how to take part.


• Politics: With a week to go until election day, advance voting, absentee voting continue across Northwest Georgia.


• Ware Mechanical Weather Center: After today, nothing but low 90s through the weekend.


• Truett's Chick-fil-A Sports Update: New athletics director, coaches at Unity Christian. Rome businessman Brian Dulaney remembers Coach Pat Dye.

RANT OF THE DAY: Who decides what you know?

There was a potential situation in downtown Rome Sunday night, enough to prompt "standby" operations and precautions. Thankfully, it was a false tip.

But you didn't know that.  

So who exactly makes that call? We're not exactly sure, either. If there's a potential threat -- again, enough to mobilize police and firefighters and to turn the lights on in the Emergency Operations Center -- then the public needs to know. 

What was staged Sunday night slipped through our fingers. It won't happen again. We deem such alerts to be the same as advance word of potential severe weather.

You deserve to know, especially if you need to be away from home for any reason.