- Local News Headline
- By Champion Staff
- May 16, 2012
- DeKalb News
Inaugural DeKalb Day of Play upcoming
The DeKalb County Day of Play is set for May 19 at Exchange Park in Decatur. The free event, hosted by Atlanta Fit Fest producer Stepp Stewart, focuses on indoor and outdoor activities for children. There wi...
- Local News Headline
- By Andrew Cauthen
- May 16, 2012
- Crime, DeKalb News

DeKalb Solicitor General Sherry Boston said the 16-month sentence of the owner of two pit bulls that attacked a girl in 2010 was “more than fair.” The girl’s father, Tommie Ingram, said he wants the dogs’ owner to serve more than the judge ordered. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
A Lithonia woman convicted after her dogs attacked an 8-year-old girl in 2010 wants to get out of jail after four months.
An attorney for Twyann Vaughn said her client wants to be released because of “some things that have come up in her life.”
V...
- Local News Headline
- By Daniel Beauregard
- May 16, 2012
- Crime, DeKalb News
William Woodard, 34, who is accused of killing DeKalb County police officers Eric Barker, 34, and Ricky Bryant Jr., 26, while they were working as off-duty security at the Glenwood Gardens Apartments, recently appeared in court.
During a motion to su...
- Local News Headline
- By Daniel Beauregard
- May 16, 2012
- DeKalb News, Education
Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson had a message of faith and perseverance for attendees at Oglethorpe University’s commencement ceremony on May 12.
Dawson, an 85-year-old accomplished pianist, Holocaust survivor and former faculty member at Indiana Univers...
- Local News Headline
- By Robert Naddra
- May 16, 2012
- Crime, DeKalb News
A man was shot and killed at a south DeKalb drive-in theater early Tuesday morning, May 15, and another was killed on Memorial Drive minutes later when he was hit by a DeKalb County Police officer responding to the crime, police said.
According ...
- Local News Headline
- By Champion Staff
- May 15, 2012
- Crime, DeKalb News
FBI, police arrest suspect in bank robberies
The FBI, in cooperation with the DeKalb County Police Department, arrested a Stone Mountain man and charged him with seven bank robberies committed during a 10-month period that started in July 2011.&...
- Local News Headline
- By Champion Staff
- May 14, 2012
- Crime, DeKalb News
The wife of a DeKalb County Police sergeant is in critical condition after being attacked during an apparent robbery outside her Lithonia home.
The victim returned home at 3:30 a.m. from an evening out with friends when she was physically assaulted o...
- Local News Headline
- By Champion Staff
- May 14, 2012
- Crime, DeKalb News
DeKalb men charged in Social Circle killing
Two DeKalb County men were arrested May 10 for the killing of a man whose body was found in Social Circle.
Corey Thomas, 20, of Decatur, and Antonio Jones, 24, of Stone Mountain, were arrested and...