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CARTERSVILLE, Ga. — A metro Atlanta mother said a popular restaurant chain discriminated against her family after her 2-year-old had a potty training accident during dinner.

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Channel 2′s Tom Jones talked to Tabatha Linley, who said her family was denied service at the Catersville Applebee’s after her toddler peed on himself during a previous visit.

Linley said she cleaned up after 2-year-old Kyrie and the family finished their meal and left. The problem didn’t start until the next time they visited, when they were seated, but no one would serve them for 25 minutes.

“Nobody came to the table, addressed us or anything,” Linley said.

They said a manager told them no server wanted to serve them because of the wetting incident.

Kyrie’s grandfather, Oscar Linley, was floored.

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“I got loud. I can’t believe it man,” Oscar Linley said. “I’ve been going there for over 30 years.”

Tabatha Linley was so angry she posted a live video about it on Facebook.

“I’m like, ‘What? Because he’s a baby and he had a potty accident on himself?” Tabatha Linley said.

Linley said she’s contacted the restaurant’s corporate offices, but gotten no response.

Jones talked to a manager at the restaurant, who said the child peed in his seat and the family didn’t clean it up.

Tabatha Linley said that is a lie.

“I cleaned it up,” she said. “There was no residue.

Tabatha Linley said the family restaurant needs more family-friendly workers.

“I mean, people have kids,” she said. “Kids have incidents all the time.”

The manager Jones talked to wasn’t there when the family was denied service. He reached out to the corporate office and was waiting to hear back.

The Linleys are now looking at other legal options.

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CARTERSVILLE — In a factory shell larger than Lenox Square Mall, the epicenter of a critical American industry is taking form: solar panel production.

Dozens of robots scurry across an expansive concrete floor to the mechanical rhythm of machinery cutting and combining razor-thin cells into solar panels. Outside the factory’s walls, bulldozers and construction cranes continue to work to bring the rest of the mammoth facility to life at a breakneck pace.

“A year ago this was dirt,” said Scott Moskowitz, Qcells’ senior director of marketing strategy and industry affairs. “It’s remarkable.”

This week, Qcells began producing finished solar panels at its Cartersville plant, a key step in the ramp-up of the highly-anticipated factory that’s been billed as a game-changer for U.S. solar manufacturing. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was granted exclusive access inside the factory Tuesday to see the first modules roll off the assembly line.

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Qcells’ Cartersville factory is part of a $2.5 billion investment announced last year to grow its manufacturing presence in Georgia, which was spurred, in part, by incentives in President Biden’s signature climate and healthcare law — the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The company and the Biden administration have billed Qcells’ venture as the largest investment in clean energy manufacturing in U.S. history.

Last fall, the company completed the first part of that expansion when it boosted the maximum annual output of its existing Dalton factory to 5.1 gigawatts, or 30,000 panels a day.

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Now, all eyes are on the new Cartersville facility, which will be able to produce 16,700 solar panels a day. Combined with Dalton’s output, Qcells expects to have an annual production capacity in Georgia of 8.4 gigawatts, enough to power 1.3 million homes. Between the two factories, Qcells says it will eventually employ 4,000 workers in Georgia.

Rebecca Harter, a production engineer who joined the company in September, remembers when the Cartersville factory was beginning to take shape. She’s still surprised it became operational this quickly.

“When they said April 1 we’re going to be making 1,000 modules, I didn’t really believe it,” she said. “But it’s incredible progress to see.”

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But there’s a reason Qcells is moving quickly to ramp up Cartersville’s planned capabilities.

Historically, U.S. solar manufacturers have relied on far-flung, mostly overseas facilities to source raw materials needed to make solar panels. Once complete, the Cartersville factory will be the country’s first to bring a fully-integrated solar supply chain under one roof.

“It used to be the only thing this industry cared about was bringing costs down as quickly as possible,” Moskowitz said. “Now, all that matters is the supply chain and figuring out how to get enough of these products where you want them.”

On one side of the factory, refined polysilicon will be molded into massive cylinders called ingots, then sliced into razor-thin wafers. Chemical treatments will transform wafers into photovoltaic cells to convert the sun’s rays into electricity, before those cells are assembled into finished solar panels at the opposite end of the plant.

The rest of the Cartersville factory should be online by the end of the year, the company says.

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Overall, the outlook for solar electricity is bright.

The federal Energy Information Administration projected in January that solar would provide 7% of all U.S. electricity in 2025, up from 4% in 2023, making it the leading source of growth in the country’s electricity supply over the next two years. Solar is booming outside the U.S., too, as countries turn to renewables to support economic growth and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that are causing climate change.

But there’s no guarantee that Qcells and other domestic manufacturers will win the fight to feed the growing appetite for solar.

Chinese companies still control more than 80% of the global production for all components needed to make panels, and the cheap modules produced in China have long plagued other manufacturers. Just last year, a flood of Chinese panels sent solar prices plummeting in Europe and in the U.S.

Qcells production shift manager Freddy Torres said quality assurance is baked into everything they do in Cartersville.

“Every time we do something, we check,” he said. “We cut, we check. We solder, we check. We arrange, we check. It’s all about quality control and redundancies.”

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The IRA, passed in 2022 with key votes from Georgia’s Democratic Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, aims to reduce dependence on foreign suppliers. The legislation offers an investment tax credit for clean energy manufacturing and billions more in domestic production incentives to encourage companies to build their products in the U.S. It also included a provision penned by Ossoff that focused on bolstering domestic solar panel production.

But those incentives may not be enough.

Ossoff and Warnock last week called for the White House to eliminate tariff exemptions to further crack down on foreign solar panels. They said it’s “critical to our nation’s energy security and energy independence from China.”

Moskowitz said any additional protective trade policies that insulate domestic companies is a national security win for the U.S. He added that producing solar panel subcomponents stateside is a needed step to provide long-term security to the solar panel industry.

“There’s more that can and should be done to help ensure that a factory like this can last for decades and that we can hopefully build more of them,” he said.

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The city made its decision on Crown Inn, which sits at North Tennessee Street in Cartersville, following an inspection.

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. — A locally-owned motel was condemned due to "life safety violations" in Cartersville, forcing all guests to vacate within 48 hours, according to the city on Friday.

The city made its decision on Crown Inn, which sits at North Tennessee Street in Cartersville, following an inspection that revealed alarming shortcomings within the property that prompted authorities to intervene.

Dozens of the motel residents are now scrambling to find another place to live. Guests were notified of the situation and given a 48-hour window to arrange alternative accommodations. The city said that as of Friday, everyone had left.

Rupesh Shah, the manager, added that the 20 families who lived here had very little notice.

Shah said they are making repairs right now, like removing microwaves, updating bathrooms, painting, and fixing the smoke detectors. He hopes to be open again soon.

Cartersville officials did not provide any specifics about the motel's condition. Read the full statement from the city below.

Ensuring the safety and well-being of our community members is our top priority. With this commitment in mind, we address the recent situation concerning the Crown Inn located at 1214 N Tennessee Street. Following an inspection conducted by code enforcement, this property has been condemned due to identified life safety violations. As a result, guests staying at the property were promptly informed and given 48 hours to secure alternative accommodations.

We are grateful for the cooperation of all guests and owners during this process. Yesterday, our Senior Code Enforcement Officer, alongside the fire department, confirmed that all guests had vacated the property without incident.

Code Enforcement has an active court case regarding this property and will follow court directives.

We appreciate the swift response and cooperation of all involved parties.

There will be a hearing on March 18. The city attorney said a judge will decide if any fines are owed by the owners and if the motel can open again.

For now, The Good Neighbor Homeless Shelter is two miles from the motel. If they fill up, there are other shelters that can help as well. Here's a link to a directory.

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. - A wrestler from Cartersville who is studying in Virginia has just made history. For the first time ever, a wrestler from the Peach State won an NCAA championship in Division I wrestling. Caleb Henson has made his hometown proud, and he plans to keep giving Georgia's wrestling community something to celebrate.

There are 78 Division I wrestling programs in the country. Not one is in Georgia, but that did not stop Caleb Henson from competing at the college level. In fact, he's only the second wrestler to graduate from a Georgia high school to make it to the NCAA D1 finals. He's the first to win.

Winning an NCAA wrestling championship in four years was an ambitious goal.

Caleb Henson did it in two.

"To give myself the opportunity to be a three-time national champ is awesome, and it's a new goal of mine," he said.

Last weekend, fourth-ranked Henson took home the 149-pound weight class national title, making history as the first Georgia wrestler to do so.

"I had a couple buddies I was racing with, and it's funny we all went to high school together," he said.

Years ago, most Georgia colleges that did offer wrestling cut their programs because of rising costs and Title IX--the law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in school.

The last time a Georgia wrestler even made it to the finals was in 1983.

"Sure, a bunch of guys would like to stay, but there's not a single school in Georgia, so we have to go out of state," he said.

Henson is a Hokie, competing for Virginia Tech, and he says the school is hyper-aware of the effects of cutting weight.

"We're getting a lot smarter with it especially here. We have a nutritionist breaking down the science, effectively, safely," Henson said.

However, Henson knows he first developed his skills in Georgia at Cartersville's Woodland High School, coached by Adrian Tramutola.

With years left in his college career at 21 years old, Henson says this championship is just one personal dream fulfilled but a triumph for Georgia.

"The fact that they're still watching me is awesome," he said.

By 2028, Henson hopes to be an Olympic champ. He's studying business, with the goal of keeping wrestling as a part of his life by making a living, operating gyms across the country.

"I'll enjoy the perks of the win for a few weeks, but then I'll focus on training like normal," Henson said.