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News Update, April 5

DeKalb County engineering supervisor pleads guilty to extortion Fidelis Ogbu, 59, of DeKalb County pleaded guilty to extortion April 4 for operating what officials called a “pay-to-play” scheme. U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said Ogbu, an en...

The secret’s out:Decatur named one of top tastiest towns in the South

For anyone who has dined in Decatur and thought “I’m glad everyone doesn’t know how great the cuisine is here,” the jig is up. The treasures of Decatur’s dining scene now have a bright spotlight shining on them, thanks to Southern Living ma...

The night East Atlanta Village changed

East Atlanta resident Henry Bryant said things started changing in his neighborhood when the Olympics came to Atlanta in 1996. “One of the big turning points was when the Olympic torch came to East Atlanta,” Bryant said. Bryant said the torch was...

Chamblee could add 11,000 residents with annexation

Chamblee could get a little bigger and unincorporated DeKalb County may shrink after the passage of a bill in the last days of the 2012 General Assembly. Residents in the Dresden East Civic Association (DECA) area neighborhoods gained a chance to dec...

Dunwoody boys, Lakeside girls claim county golf titles

Dunwoody placed four golfers among the top five at the DeKalb County Golf Championships to win its fourth consecutive boys’ title and 10th overall. The Wildcats shot a tournament-record score of 310 to defeat second-place Lakeside by 44 strokes (31...