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Charges pending against driver who killed high school student

Stone Mountain High School students approach a memorial for 14-year-old Tanisha Williams, who was hit by a car and killed on Central Avenue on her way home from school Jan. 20. Photo by Robert Naddra
The driver who lost control of his car and hit three Stone Mountain High School students on their way home from school Jan. 20 may have been hit from behind or racing with another car, DeKalb County Police said. Shaheed Saunders, 17, lost control of ...

Race for Johnson’s Congressional seat heats up

A crowded host of Democratic politicos announced this month their intentions to run against Rep. Hank Johnson, a month after the ailing Congressman announced he’s been struggling with Hepatitis C. Former DeKalb County CEO Vernon Jones announced his...

Community Café addresses crisis in 30032

A DeKalb County community is in crisis. So say many who live and work within ZIP code 30032. Criminal activity and drug usage have claimed the 30032 community, which suffers from isolation, lack of resources and lack of community support, said Lenean...

Principal brainstorming leads to ‘FATHER-nonymous’ at Rock Chapel Elementary

Program designed to lure more father figures to students’ educational lives
Patrick S. Muhammad brainstormed the phrase “FATHER-nonymous.” It got about 50 men – fathers, grandfathers and neighbors among them – to come to Rock Chapel Elementary School last month for FATHER-nonymous: Known Fathers Dedicated to Taking T...

Lakeside junior has sights set on more state swimming records

Lakeside junior Jack Lane has qualified for the state high school swim meet in seven of eight individual events. Photo by Eddie Carter
If Lakeside swimming coach Tricia Newmyer needs someone to swim against one of the top backstrokers in the state, she calls on Jack Lane. If she needs someone to pace one of her swimmers so they can qualify for the state meet, Lane is her guy. No mat...

Joy and pain in waiting for word from Haiti

Fritz Aristilde is relieved to know his sister is alive in Haiti.
Fritz Aristilde will tell anyone who will listen that God answers prayers. After nearly a week of gut-wrenching waiting and imaging worst possible outcomes, Aristilde received word on Jan. 19 that his sister is alive and safe in Haiti. “I am great,...

HAITI DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS

A market vendor covers her face from garbage smoke in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, March 17, 2005. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
UPDATE: Sheriff Thomas Brown will kick-off the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office Haiti disaster relief efforts today at 2 p.m. with a personal donation of $1,000.  The Sheriff’s Office will be accepting monetary donations at a station set up outside ...

Icy roads cause more than 200 accidents but no fatalities

Icy roads in DeKalb County contributed to more than 250 traffic accidents in the first 24 hours after a winter storm on Jan. 7. About a half-inch to an inch of snow fell across DeKalb County, according to the National Weather Service office in Peacht...

First citizens’ academy to be hosted by Dunwoody police

Watch out bad guys: the net of Dunwoody law enforcement is about to get bigger. On Jan. 26, the city’s police force hosts its first citizens’ police academy, a nine-week course open to its residents that covers all of the department’s operation...

Sheriff introduces new sex offender monitoring programs

DeKalb County Sheriff Thomas Brown a group of local media how to use his office’s new sex offender tracking software. The public can access portions of it to track offenders living near them. Photo by Jonathan Cribbs
A projector screen showed an overhead, satellite photograph of a neighborhood somewhere in DeKalb County. A series of red dots spotted the top of a small cluster of trees. In the middle of the trees sat a basic, ranch-style home roughly 30 yards back...

In wake of shooting death, Miller urges residents to find other ways to celebrate

In the wake of the death of 4-year-old Marquel Peters, DeKalb Police are reviewing their response to the incident. William Miller, the DeKalb County director of Public Safety, and other police officials met with the boy’s family last week to expres...

Lewis: Serious budget trauma headed for the district

DeKalb County School System Superintendent Crawford Lewis predicts the school district will face a budget deficit next year of more than $50 million. Photos by Jonathan Cribbs
The DeKalb County School System is headed for serious budget trauma, Superintendent Crawford Lewis said this month. Over the last four years, the school district has slashed the budget by more than $10 million each year, and this year is no different...

Towers wins first duals title; 4 county teams qualify for state

From left, Nolan Johnson, Quevin Campbell, Demetrius Abner, Rodney Wooten and Tam Vu were instrumental in bringing Towers its first Area Duals championship. Photos by Robert Naddra
Towers last won the DeKalb County Wrestling Championships in 1995, the same year its last state individual champion was crowned. The Titans were consistently among the top teams in the state from the 1970s through the mid 1990s. Towers’ 28 top-10 t...

Family, church trying to cope with death of 4-year-old boy

Marquel Peters, 4, was killed just after midnight on Jan. 1 after a stray bullet came through the roof of The Church of God the Prophecy in Decatur and struck him in the head during a New Year's Eve church service. Photo provided
Natalee Peters still speaks of her son in the present tense. Nearly a week after 4-year-old Marquel Peters was killed by a stray bullet at a New Year’s Eve church service, his mother is struggling with the realization that her only child was taken ...

Board approves $15K raise for schools superintendent

The DeKalb County Board of Education approved a $15,000 raise for Superintendent Crawford Lewis this month, angering educators who said they’ve been denied raises due to the poor economy. The board voted 8-1 on Jan. 4 to increase Lewis’ salary fr...

DeKalb employment numbers stagnate over last several months

The percentage of unemployed workers in DeKalb County has hovered around 10 percent for the last several months, and local officials believe that number could slightly worsen before it improves. The county’s unemployment rate was 8.4 percent in Jan...

Police search for suspects in animal cruelty case

A dog that was shot in the head on Dec. 30 in Lithonia is recovering from his wound. Photo courtesy of DeKalb County Police.
DeKalb County Animal Cruelty Task Force investigators are searching for persons responsible for shooting a dog in the head on Dec. 30, DeKalb Police spokesman Jason Gagnon said. Officers responded to 5412 Terrytown Lane in Lithonia where they found t...

Mitchell sponsors bill to help homeowners facing foreclosure

State Rep. Billy Mitchell, center, addresses an audience at a press conference at the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta attended by Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, who supports Mitchell’s proposed legislation to provide consumers with a 90-day notice requirement and right to cure a delinquent mortgage in foreclosure.
Homeowners in Georgia do not enjoy the same protection from foreclosure that those in other states have. Here, depending on the lender, the foreclosure process can begin one day after the grace period if an owner is late with the mortgage payment. St...

Keeping weapons out of the hands of criminals

The VIPER unit of DeKalb’s district attorney’s office destroyed 115 firearms on Dec. 17 that had been used in a variety of crimes. “It is particularly reassuring to know that the firearms we destroyed will never again be used for criminal activ...

Local gallery a salvation for Atlanta artists

Art crawls and twists from floor to ceiling at Donna Van Gogh’s gallery like colorful kudzu directed by a natural force of feng shui. It is, all at once, complex and charming and evocative and bright, from covering the gambit of traditionalist conc...

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