Paulding County News

Thank goodness 2009 isn't an election year. That means there's a chance state lawmakers won't be tempted to treat the state treasury like a campaign slush fund, grabbing dollars for pork-barrel projects whose ...

State wildlife officials will try to learn Monday how a pile of dead sharks wound up on a rural Paulding County road.

Strong thunderstorms developed over parts of Metro Atlanta Monday night, not moving much with plenty of rain and vivid lightning in some areas.

Lightning from storms Monday night sparked several fires in the northwest suburbs, and forecasters predict a chance of more thunderstorms the rest of the week.

Paulding County residents soon will have a chance to earn four-year degrees in business or education without leaving downtown Dallas.

Lightning is to blame for damaging several homes across the metro Atlanta area. Severe thunderstorm warnings were issued for Cobb, Cherokee, Haralson and Paulding counties Monday night.

IT'S OFTEN said that people get more conservative as they grow older, but places seem to get more liberal or, at least, more Democratic as they mature.

Q: What's the status of the case against the man accused of killing Jennifer Ewing, the Silver Comet Trail biker? I have never heard of the case coming to trial.

A softball umpire who told police he was the victim of an armed robbery ended up arrested on charges that he violated Georgia's tough sex offender laws.

A girls softball umpire who claimed he was robbed by gunmen at a Cherokee County ballpark was himself arrested after deputies discovered he was a registered sex offender.

Authorities in Paulding County are investigating the death of an 11-year-old boy.

Paulding County sheriff's investigators are trying to determine what killed an 11-year-old boy Monday night at a home south of Dallas.

APPARENTLY, when a big government makes grant money for anything available to smaller governments, it has become a knee-jerk reaction to try for some of it, whether it perfectly fits the intended aim or not.

Brenda Costello works on plans for the first Founder's Day Celebration in Braswell.

Cobb County officials are planning to use the body of a bear killed by a car in Cobb County as part of an exhibit for school children.

A rolling shootout over the weekend rattles nerves in one Paulding County neighborhood.

According to officials with the Georgia State Patrol Cartersville Post: An unknown number of people were hospitalized and two people were airlifted after a two-vehicle wreck near the intersection of Ga.

Walter Matthews, chief judge of the Rome judicial circuit, has been assigned to handle a motion seeking to unseal the divorce records of Georgia House Speaker Glenn Richardson.

For the two years Rochelle Ann Trawick worked at the Cobb Superior Court Clerk's office, she was hard-worker - eager to help and always asked if there was anything else she could do.

A nearly 11-hour standoff at a Douglas County house Monday ended when a man inside fatally shot himself.