Here's your roundup of regional headlines for Friday, May 18.
Follow these links for more on today's stories: Judge: East Paulding’s Zimmerman Can Attend Graduation (Dallas-Hiram Patch) School Official: We Will Honor Judge’s Decision (Dallas-Hiram Patch) Detectives: Help ID Peeping Tom (Cartersville Patch) Canton Festival of the Arts (Canton-Sixes Patch) Pope Meets Lambert for State Lacrosse Title (East Cobb Patch)
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About 75 officers from several local and area agencies will be stationed across the city tonight at checkpoints aimed at ensuring drivers’ safety.
Hiram Police Department officers will be out in force tonight with the aim of keeping roads in the city safe—and they’re going to backup. HPD officers—along with authorities from agencies in the Western Regional Traffic Enforcement Network—will be establishing sobriety checkpoints, safety belt and child passenger safety seat checks along the city’s major thoroughfares. More than 75 officers are expected to take part in the checkpoints. The Georgia State Patrol will field 15 troopers and a helicopter; law enforcement agencies from the cities of LaGrange, Rome and Temple, as well as Paulding and Douglas counties also will supply officers for the effort. The safety road checks will be done in conjunction with the Governor’s Office of Highway …
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Darren Wesley Huff will serve time after being convicted of transporting firearms across state lines.
Former militia member Darren Wesley Huff, 42, of Dallas was sentenced in U.S. District Court on Tuesday to serve four years in prison for his conviction of transporting firearms across state lines with the intent to cause a civil disorder. Huff in October was found guilty of carrying a firearm in interstate commerce with the intent to use it in a civil disorder. According to a Federal Bureau of Investigation news release, Huff intended to arrest public officials pursuant to “citizens arrest warrants,” which were directed at numerous local, state and federal public officials, including sheriffs, police chiefs, and President Barack Obama. The citizen’s arrest warrants Huff attempted to execute listed the public officials as “Declared …
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Here's your roundup of regional headlines for Thursday, May 17.
Follow these links for more on today's stories: Video: Community Rallies at Relay for Life (Dallas-Hiram Patch) Missing Girl May Be in Mexico (Kennesaw Patch) Man Charged with Burglaries, Thefts (Cartersville Patch) Help Eli Fight Crohn's (Woodstock-Towne Lake Patch)
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Our streamlined version of local crime news features incident listings the Paulding County Sheriff's Office provided to Dallas-Hiram Patch on Tuesday.
The attached report of recent crime incidents was provided by the Paulding County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday. Dallas-Hiram Patch assumes the report is error-free and apologizes in advance for any incorrect information. We've presented the full report in PDF form and the individual pages in JPEG form.
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Joselinne Rivera-Ruiz, whose daughter's brutal murder made national headlines in December, was arrested on Monday in connection with a domestic dispute, according to a Canton Police Department incident report.
Our streamlined version of local crime news features incident listings the Paulding County Sheriff's Office provided to Dallas-Hiram Patch on Monday.
The attached report of recent crime incidents was provided by the Paulding County Sheriff's Office on Monday. Dallas-Hiram Patch assumes the report is error-free and apologizes in advance for any incorrect information. We've presented the full report in PDF form and the individual pages in JPEG form.
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Our streamlined version of local crime news features incident listings the Paulding County Sheriff's Office provided to Dallas-Hiram Patch on Friday.
The attached report of recent crime incidents was provided by the Paulding County Sheriff's Office on Friday. Dallas-Hiram Patch assumes the report is error-free and apologizes in advance for any incorrect information. We've presented the full report in PDF form and the individual pages in JPEG form.
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Get a recap of all the major headlines we had May 6-13.
Several of our headlines last week focused on events that took place on Saturday. We told you early in the week about a walkathon aimed at helping two locals who have been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. On Friday, we brought you video interviews of the two. Our video coverage also included a preview of a motorcycle show that will see its proceeds help a Christmastime project. Paulding County Relay for Life was held Friday night through Saturday morning. If you attended the event and grabbed some photos and videos of the festivities, we hope you’ll share them with us here. Tuesday, we’ll bring you the video we shot of the goings-on on Friday. We also hope you’ll share photos and videos of your favorite graduates from Chattahoochee …
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Here's your roundup of regional headlines for Friday, May 11.
Follow these links for more on today's stories: Video: Two Share Their Cancer Diagnosis Stories (Dallas-Hiram patch) Meth Lab Discovered in Woodstock (Woodstock-Towne Lake Patch) Fit for a Queen on 'Real Women/Real Sexy' (Marietta Patch)
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Melinda Paris
8:16 am on Friday, May 18, 2012
The Police do not ruin lives, people make choices, and sometimes bad ones, and get caught..duh. I do believe there is bad police officers just like in any other professional jobs such as lawyers, judges, just because you are a police officer doesn't mean you are a nice person, some grow cold and cold hearted and change, but nonetheless, we need our police and the good ones DO NOT make enough for … more ›