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Mother saves daughter from pit bull attack

A’lexus Zachary recovers at home with her mother Tameka Zachary following a dog attack. Photo by Robert Naddra
Tameka Zachary is thankful to have her daughter back. Spending two days at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston after being attacked by a pit bull, 12-year-old A’lexus Zachary was back at home with her family before Christmas and will be ...

Trapped in your car? It might cost you $250 to escape

If you find yourself trapped inside your car following a wreck in the future, you’ll also have your pocketbook to think about. The DeKalb County Fire Department will charge $250 to extract trapped drivers from their cars – a service that had prev...

DeKalb County Holiday Basketball Tournament

Southwest DeKalb 52, Chamblee 41 Boys Stephenson 60, Chamblee 57. Langston Hall scored 32 pints for Chamblee. Frank Adams had 21 for Stephenson.  American Division Championship Girls Arabia Mountain 56, Lithonia 43 Boys Tucker 79, Lakeside 72. Shonz...

Ellis’ 2010 budget includes tax increase, job cuts

DeKalb County will have to raise taxes and eliminate more than 700 jobs to balance a $582.7 million budget in 2010 – a $23 million cut from this year’s budget, county CEO Burrell Ellis said this month. Ellis released details of the budget Dec. 15...

13-year-old student wows Morehouse

Stephen Stafford II in front of MLK statue on campus.
by Kalin Thomas As a 13-year-old, Lithonia resident Stephen Stafford II can usually be found sitting in front of the television playing video games or playing his drum set. But Stafford is no typical 13-year old – he’s a college student. The tr...

House of 3,000 chairs—little shop in Stone Mountain holds world record

Barbara Hartsfield
The one thing that visitors never have trouble finding when they’re at Barbara Hartsfield’s little shop in Stone Mountain Village is a chair. There are more than 3,000 of them, though most are too small for even the tiniest person to sit in. The ...

Beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Stone Mountain Park’s Paul Creasy is something of an expert in manmade snow.
One could say that at this time of year Paul Creasy is obsessed with snow. When it falls, how it falls, where it falls and whether this year’s blanket that will stretch 400 feet will keep the paying customers satisfied. And Stone Mountain Park’s...

Growing crime galvanizes East Atlanta resolve

Morgan Skilling says her East Atlanta home has been broken into five times. Photo by Matt Amato
New Orleans and East Atlanta have a couple of things in common for Morgan Skilling. An independent cultural spirit–or “the buzz,” as she refers to it–and hot summers. Adjusting to the crime has been harder for the Hurricane Katrina evacuee. ...

Deputy arrested, fired for hindering felony arrest

Landria Odom
A DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office deputy was arrested Dec. 16 and charged with hindering a felony arrest when investigators discovered she was harboring a fugitive at her home. Landria Odom, 41, a nine-year veteran with the sheriff’s office, was f...

DeKalb employment numbers stagnate over last several months

The percentage of unemployed workers in DeKalb County has hovered around 10 percent for the last several months, and local officials believe that number could slightly worsen before it improves. The county’s unemployment rate was 8.4 percent in Jan...