- Local News Headline
- By Champion Staff
- May 17, 2012
A 12-year-old boy, who was skipping school with two others, was shot in a wooded area behind Montclair Elementary School earlier today, police said.
DeKalb County Police spokeswoman Pam Kunz said the shooting victim was with two other boys ages 16 an...
- Sports News
- By Robert Naddra
- May 17, 2012
By the end of the boys’ high school state track championships on May 11, John Williams felt the same way he did 13 years ago.
The Stone Mountain boys track coach had good reason to feel nostalgic. He watched his team finish sixth in the Class AAA m...
- Sports News
- By Robert Naddra
- May 17, 2012
Seven Southwest DeKalb athletes signed scholarships May 9 and 10 at ceremonies at the school.
Three players signed on May 9 and four track athletes signed on May 10.
In the May 9 signing ceremony, Sydnee Walton signed an acrobatics and tumbling schol...
- Local News Headline
- By Andrew Cauthen
- May 17, 2012
It’s a new traffic interchange that comes with its own slogan: “Arrive. Crossover. Drive.”
Drivers will be driving on left side of the road on Georgia’s first Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI) that is being constructed at I-285 and Ashford ...
- Local News Headline
- By Daniel Beauregard
- May 17, 2012
Jasone Gaines, 33, the new planning and development manager of Clarkston said his goal is to attract more quality development to the city.
Gaines who worked for Cobb County the last seven years, started in its community development agency then transf...
- Local News Headline
- By Champion Staff
- May 17, 2012
Drive-in shooter caught
Quentric Williams, 32, was arrested in Gwinnett May 16 and charged with allegedly murdering Mitt Lenix at the Starlight Drive-In May 15.
Williams was arrested at the Sun Suites on Club Drive at approximately 5:40 p.m.
Police s...