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News Update, April 4

Reward offered for Brook Run Park vandalism information A $1,500 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the damage caused to the community garden at Brook Run Park March 31. According to ...

News Update, April 3

Overlay district meeting to be held tonight             DeKalb County Commissioner Kathie Gannon has announced that there will be a meeting tonight, April 3, of the Southwest DeKalb Design Overlay District.  This will be the final draft p...

Forum tonight to discuss overcoming arrests

 Atlantans Building Leadership for Empowerment (ABLE) will hold an open forum to discuss obstacles under the current Georgia law and possible solutions for people who have been arrested. Topics include, how an arrest without conviction can lead to b...

News Update, April 2

Stone Mountain man found dead in Social Circle The body of a Stone Mountain man was found March 29 in Social Circle when firefighters were called to put out a brush fire near I-20. A motorist called 911 to report the fire at 11:44 p.m. An autopsy by ...

Video conference first-appearance hearings introduced at DeKalb Jail

In a room at the jail, Sheriff Thomas Brown looks at a split screen that shows him and Judge Berryl A. Anderson, who is in her courtroom at the courthouse, in real time. Photo by Kathy Mitchell
The law requires that persons charged with a crime have the opportunity to appear before a judge within 48 hours when no warrant was involved and 72 hours when a person is arrested under a warrant. Until recently, this required transporting the perso...

Terrific Tigers: Defense, unity mark Tucker’s rise to top of region

Senior George Kapeh, from left, and juniors Steven Duffy and Josiah Saydee anchor a defense that has helped Tucker defeat region rivals Lakeside and Marist this season. Photo by Robert Naddra
longer an afterthought for playoff-bound teams. Wins earlier this month made sure of that. In a span of five days, the Tigers (9-2) defeated No. 9 ranked Lakeside 1-0 on March 16 and followed that with a 2-1 win in penalty kicks over Marist on March ...

African student builds windmill to help family and villagers

Kamkwamba signs a copy of his award-winning book The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, about how he built a windmill to bring electricity to his village. Photo by Daniel Beauregard
From an early age, William Kamkwamba was fascinated with how things worked. “I used to think that inside the radio there were tiny people who spoke,” Kamkwamba said. Kamkwamba later found a radio and pulled it open to see whether there really wer...