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Officer arrested on child molestation charges

A DeKalb County Police officer was arrested Jan. 4 in connection with allegations of sexual misconduct against a 15-year-old female. Quevius O. Thornton, 29, was arrested and charged with two counts of statutory rape, one count of aggravated child mo...

Arrest made in Sneiderman killing

Hemy Zvi Neuman, left, along with the original police released this sketch of the suspect..
UPDATE 1/6/11: Dunwoody man’s widow knew alleged killer   A Buckhead man has been arrested in connection with the November killing of Russell “Rusty” Sneiderman of Dunwoody. Hemy Zvi Neuman, 48, was arrested by Dunwoody Police on Jan. 4 and ch...

Dunwoody files $7 million lawsuit against DeKalb for park

Thirty-two-year Dunwoody resident Don Converse said he has never been to Arabia Park near Lithonia and probably never will. Instead he enjoys volunteering in community garden in nearby Brook Run Park. But Converse is tired of seeing the two dilapida...

Catalina Island: where Bogart, baseball and bison come together

Catalina’s most famous landmark, Catalina Casino built in 1929, has never had gambling. Photo by Kathy Mitchell
There is a bouncy little song about Catalina Island—“26 Miles”—that was popular in the 1950s. For years I mistakenly thought The Four Preps were singing “sunny Catalina is waiting for me.” Sunny is not a bad description of the place, but ...