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Week in Review: Halloween Contests, Armed Robbery Arrest

Before a new workweek begins, take a few minutes to recap our top headlines from last week.

Tonight is Halloween, so we’d be amiss if we didn’t address it as we begin our latest Week in Review. You can check out our Halloween topic page to see all the Halloween-themed postings we’ve done this month.

If you want to help someone win a $200 gift card, you have until noon today to .

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Now we’ll move away from Halloween topics and go into the news highlights of the week that was:

Dallas Police on Monday released details, including video, on an at . Authorities later in the week announced .

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Other notable area arrests last week were the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office’s apprehension of three individuals following an ongoing investigation .

We also learned that a Dallas man, 41-year-old Darren Wesley Huff, stemming from an April 2010 incident in Tennessee.

Tuesday brought our live coverage of the meetings of two government entities, as we brought you news of the and talk about this week’s meetings regarding . You were also able to learn about the Paulding commissioners’ greenlighting of the and .

In other school news, Georgia Highlands College in the coming weeks.

In sports, the Paulding County High Lady Patriots softball team made it to the state tournament . Our sports coverage last week also included our weekly ; we’ll have for you later today a recap of how our local teams did.

In somewhat related news, a Pope High School band student and remained hospitalized as of early last week.

For those who like to partake of entertainment and dining in the area, we brought you, as usual, and our “Dinner and a Movie” feature focused on .

That’s it for our recap of last week’s headlines. Thanks for checking us out, and we hope you’ll return to see what we’ll bring you this week and beyond.


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