End of the Line For Cartersville Train Company

A rail car company in Northwest Georgia has told state officials over six hundred people will be laid off this summer.

Employees at the Trinity North American Freight Car plant in Cartersville make rail road equipment. And by the end of August, that work will be idled as the plant is closed and some 659 fewer employees will be laid off.

The company did release a statement saying "The plant closure is due to a downturn in orders in that sector of the business."

Northwest Georgia is already reeling from chronic double digit unemployment. Counselors from the Georgia Department of Labor will meet with Trinity workers next week to go over services that the state agency can provide. Trinity’s Cartersville plant has been open since 2001.

Forner wrestler gets life in prison

A former professional wrestler convicted of leading a sex trafficking ring has been sentenced to life in prison. Prosecutors say Harrison "Hardbody" Norris of Cartersville ran a scheme to force women into prostitution. Norris has claimed he just ran a training camp for women to become professional wrestlers.

Plane crash victim identified

A teen-age employee of a Georgia aviation company was identified today as the pilot who died when his plane crashed into the side of a synagogue in Augusta.

Ron Baker, 19, was flying a single-engine Piper Arrow when it crashed last night at Congregation Children of Israel's Walton Way Temple, according to the Associated Press.

Baker worked for Phoenix Air of Cartersville.

No one on the ground was injured.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.

Wrestler guilty of housing sex slaves

A federal jury in Atlanta has found a former pro wrestler guilty in a prostitution and sex trafficking case. Harrison "Hardbody" Norris is charged with keeping eight women as sex slaves at his two homes in Cartersville, northwest of Atlanta. Norris claimed the women willingly lived at the homes because they wanted to train as pro wrestlers. He faces life in prison.