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Campus religious club asserts right to discriminate

Agnes Scott College and Georgia Perimeter College both have Christian student organizations, as do most colleges throughout the state and nation. As one would expect, many of these student groups require their members to adhere to certain religious p...

Principal helps McNair Middle make the grade

Susan Freeman was named principal of McNair Middle School four years ago.
Susan Freeman reached into a desk drawer inside her office in November and pulled out an old copy of The Champion. It featured a front-page article several years old detailing serious disciplinary problems that plagued the school years before she arr...

Mother saves daughter from pit bull attack

A’lexus Zachary recovers at home with her mother Tameka Zachary following a dog attack. Photo by Robert Naddra
Tameka Zachary is thankful to have her daughter back. Spending two days at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston after being attacked by a pit bull, 12-year-old A’lexus Zachary was back at home with her family before Christmas and will be ...

Trapped in your car? It might cost you $250 to escape

If you find yourself trapped inside your car following a wreck in the future, you’ll also have your pocketbook to think about. The DeKalb County Fire Department will charge $250 to extract trapped drivers from their cars – a service that had prev...

Ellis’ 2010 budget includes tax increase, job cuts

DeKalb County will have to raise taxes and eliminate more than 700 jobs to balance a $582.7 million budget in 2010 – a $23 million cut from this year’s budget, county CEO Burrell Ellis said this month. Ellis released details of the budget Dec. 15...

13-year-old student wows Morehouse

Stephen Stafford II in front of MLK statue on campus.
by Kalin Thomas As a 13-year-old, Lithonia resident Stephen Stafford II can usually be found sitting in front of the television playing video games or playing his drum set. But Stafford is no typical 13-year old – he’s a college student. The tr...

House of 3,000 chairs—little shop in Stone Mountain holds world record

Barbara Hartsfield
The one thing that visitors never have trouble finding when they’re at Barbara Hartsfield’s little shop in Stone Mountain Village is a chair. There are more than 3,000 of them, though most are too small for even the tiniest person to sit in. The ...

Beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Stone Mountain Park’s Paul Creasy is something of an expert in manmade snow.
One could say that at this time of year Paul Creasy is obsessed with snow. When it falls, how it falls, where it falls and whether this year’s blanket that will stretch 400 feet will keep the paying customers satisfied. And Stone Mountain Park’s...

Growing crime galvanizes East Atlanta resolve

Morgan Skilling says her East Atlanta home has been broken into five times. Photo by Matt Amato
New Orleans and East Atlanta have a couple of things in common for Morgan Skilling. An independent cultural spirit–or “the buzz,” as she refers to it–and hot summers. Adjusting to the crime has been harder for the Hurricane Katrina evacuee. ...

Deputy arrested, fired for hindering felony arrest

Landria Odom
A DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office deputy was arrested Dec. 16 and charged with hindering a felony arrest when investigators discovered she was harboring a fugitive at her home. Landria Odom, 41, a nine-year veteran with the sheriff’s office, was f...

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...

Magazine names Redan one of the nation’s best high schools

Redan High School is among America’s best high schools, according to a U.S. News & World Report study. The school recently landed the magazine’s bronze award for providing great service to students. The award considers a school’s percentage...

Commission drops effort to ax CEO position

The DeKalb County CEO’s office isn’t going anywhere – at least for now. The board of commissioners voted 4-3 on Dec. 15 against a resolution supporting a referendum asking voters if they wanted to remove the county’s elected CEO position and ...

Communication is the key to catching serial rapist, police say

The best weapon to combat the string of sexual assaults along Hambrick Road is not a gun, a knife, or even pepper spray. Communication, both police and residents believe, is the best way to help catch a serial rapist who is responsible for at least t...

Dunwoody moving ahead with repaving project

Dunwoody has proceeded with plans for major infrastructural improvement – just over a year since its incorporation. An application sent to the Georgia Department of Transportation has requested funding and permission for a road repaving project. Mo...

Expert offers advice for those whose holidays aren’t merry

While holiday songs and television shows are suggesting that everyone should be having a grand time during this season of the year, many are feeling isolation, guilt, anger or anxiety. Such feelings may be evidence of holiday depression, according to...

Special Olympics floor hockey event brings schools together

The bleachers are full of cheering teenagers. Cheerleaders line the floor hockey arena on the basketball court as the noise level climbs. On the court, a handful of special needs high school students are chasing a disk and trying to slide it into the...

Former principal pleads guilty to falsifying test answers at Atherton Elementary

James Berry
Former Atherton Elementary School Principal James Berry pleaded guilty to falsifying state documents – his students’ state-standardized tests, more specifically – this month and received two years probation and a fine, officials said. The final...

Two high school coaches leaving DeKalb

Michael Collins, left, and Cory Jarvis
Two DeKalb County high school football coaches took other jobs this week outside the county. Chamblee coach Michael Collins accepted an offer Dec. 15 to become the head coach at Wheeler High School and M.L. King’s Corey Jarvis was named the new hea...

Rep. Hank Johnson struggles with hepatitis C

U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson announced this month that he has struggled with hepatitis C, a serious liver virus, for more than a decade. “Over the past year, I have been on a robust course of treatment for hepatitis C, a virus that affects more than four...

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