Paulding County has joined almost half the counties statewide in offering residents the opportunity to pay their tag registration through a Kiosk in a retail location. Paulding Tag office officials together with County officials held a ribbon-cutting in Dallas at the Dallas Commons store last week, though the Georgia Tag Kiosk has actually been at the site since August.

Detectives with the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office and Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) arrest a Paulding County man for the murder of a missing Gwinnett County man.

The Hiram Police Department collected $3,120.00 because of the generosity of local businesses. The money raised by this project became “Mary’s Gift”, in honor of the daughter of a long-time employee of Hiram Police Department, Nora Gibboney.

The Paulding County Sheriff's Office will hold its 23rd annual Paulding Cops for Kids, Inc. Christmas shopping event on Saturday, December 11, 2021, at 7:00 AM. As usual, the event will take place at the Dallas Walmart on Marietta Highway (3615 Marietta Hwy. Dallas, GA 30157).

Chattahoochee Technical College recognized its outstanding alumni, top volunteer, and benefactor of the year at its 2021 Spark Workforce Awards event held on Dec. 3 at the North Metro Campus.

Six Lawrence University football players have been chosen for the All-Midwest Conference team in a vote of league coaches. Linebacker Eder Bellegarde and receiver/returner Cameron Wicks were both first-team selections. Safety/returner Terrell Myers was chosen for the second team on both defense and special teams, and quarterback D'Andre Weaver, receiver Tanner Morris, and defensive lineman Zachary Adams also were second-team picks.

All Paulding County Government offices will be closed Thursday, November 25, 2021, and Friday, November 26, 2021, in observance of Thanksgiving. Offices will re-open Monday, November 29, 2021, at 8 a.m.

On Tuesday, November 9, 2021, Deputy Bruce Brott, who works in the Uniform Patrol Division at the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office, was awarded the Paulding County Board of Commissioner’s Public Safety Award.

Paulding Deputies responded to a fatal plane crash in southern Paulding County off of Georgian Parkway yesterday afternoon. At approximately 12:59 PM on Monday, November 8, 2021, Paulding E-911 received a phone call from a complainant who indicated that they observed a small single-engine plane “sputtering” and then “spiraling downward” toward a wooded area near The Georgian subdivision.

Thanks to an initiative involving 66 Georgia Sheriffs, 35 sex offenders were arrested and 51 warrants were issued across the state from October 25 – November 1, 2021, for violations of state registration laws. In 2015, the first coordinated effort across the state was launched to conduct residence verifications and compliance checks of registered sex offenders during a specific period.