Riot, Armed Robberies, Crashes Top Headlines

Local police news topped headlines several times last week.

The latest such news we had was on inside the Paulding County Regional Youth Detention Center. We brought you details as well as a video interview with Paulding County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Brandon Gurley regarding the incident.

Earlier in the week saw the PCSO .

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In the county next door, Cobb County Police reported that an arrest warrant had been issued on a Marietta man .

In other police news, the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office is , which aims to make Christmas a reality for the county’s needy children.

Preliminary numbers show that , which paralleled the improvement for Northwest Georgia.

Stu Ostro with The Weather Channel during Thursday’s Paulding Chamber of Commerce Georgia Power Luncheon. Our coverage was a video of the highlights of Ostro’s presentation.

The Paulding County School Board on Tuesday with last week’s in Hiram (we’ll be bringing you video from that event as this week begins). The school district has a busy month ahead, as least when it comes to .

One of our Patch readers sent us a YouTube video of his granddaughter, Shana Bishop, . If you know of any great YouTube videos by or featuring any Dallas or Hiram residents, send them to us by emailing jon.gargis@patch.com.

Among our weekly offerings, our weekly “” feature was on , which our film critic says could nab lead Michelle Williams an Oscar. Unfortunately, you can’t nab a ticket to this film from our local theater. Want to see more movie reviews? .

We brought you not one, but two, video game reviews. See what our resident reviewer had to say about and .

The week’s food scores were relatively good, .

And lastly, but certainly not least, our weekly look at the county’s historic homes took a look at .