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News update, May 11

SWAT standoff ends with two arrests, one suspect on the run Two burglary suspects were arrested Thursday, May 10, after DeKalb County Police Department’s SWAT team was called out to a Clarkston apartment complex. DeKalb police officers we...

Wade Walker YMCA on schedule for September opening

A $17.1 million YMCA at Wade Walker Park in Stone Mountain is expected to be open this fall. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
DeKalb County’s newest YMCA recreation center is on schedule to open in early September. The $17.1 million construction project is set to be completed in early July and turned over to the YMCA in August, said Roy Wilson, director of the county’s ...

DeKalb Schools lease of Fernbank Forest to end in June

Soon the DeKalb County School District will no longer be responsible for the care and maintenance of Fernbank Forest, a 65-acre tract of mature mixed hardwood forest that serves as a nature preserve. On June 30, a 45-year lease of the preserve to DCS...

Plans to move north police precinct may change

DeKalb County officials said it still plans to relocate the north police precinct from Dunwoody to land next to the DeKalb Peachtree Airport (PDK), but that those plans may change if Brookhaven residents vote “yes” to cityhood. Currently, the pre...