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Making the grade helps players’ scholarship chances

Miller Grove senior defensive back Terrance Moore, who has a 4.0 GPA, is receiving interest from Ivy League schools.
Terrance Moore understands that his responsibility to the Miller Grove football team doesn’t end when he walks off the field.Moore, a senior defensive back for the Wolverines, also is relied on as a tutor and mentor to some of his teammates. With a...

What does killing dogs have to do with football?

An Opinion by Travis Hudgonstravish@dekalbchamp.com Corporate icon Martha Stewart was convicted on nine counts, including charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice. She served five months in prison and five months of house arrest. Upon ...

CDC to start $400 million construction project

Agency hopes to centralize metro operations The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hopes to spend $400 million to build new, centralized office space, the majority of which will be centered at the federal agency’s Chamblee campus, officials...

Health-care town hall spirited, but civil

Hank Johnson
Congressman Hank Johnson’s health-care reform town hall meeting drew a diverse crowd–men, women, young, elderly, conservatively dressed, unconventionally styled, and representing a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds.It was far too large a crowd f...

Decatur church buys Paulk’s former church for nearly $18M

Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, the former home of Bishop Earl Paulk Jr., sold Aug. 10 for $17.6 million to another Decatur church, said the representative of the real estate company that brokered the deal. The Greater Traveler’s Rest Baptist Church...

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School system to extend judge’s bullying probe

DeKalb County schools chief Crawford Lewis has extended the contract with retired Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore – a contract that has already earned her about $170,000, a school spokesman said. The contract extension asks Moore to investigate ...