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Two arrests made in conjunction with shooting death of Lithonia woman

DeKalb Police made two arrests Saturday, Aug. 22, in conjunction with the shooting death of Jameelah Qureshi. Luis Alberto Porras, 25, and Amanda Dove, 24, each were charged with one count of murder. The pair made a first appearance in Magistrate Co...

Going to the principal’s office-- Former student in top post at her former high school

Southwest DeKalb graduate, Angela Thomas Bethea is now the principal at her former school
The year is 1989. George H. Bush is president, Madonna’s Like a Prayer and Tone Loc’s Wild Thing dominate the airwaves, while Do the Right Thing drives audiences to movie theaters.Over at Southwest DeKalb High School in Decatur, a young Angela Th...

School board fires assistant principal implicated in cheating scandal

The DeKalb County School System intends to fire an assistant principal who was caught in the middle of a statewide test tampering scandal in June, a district spokesman said. The school district sent a letter to former Atherton Elementary School Assi...

Making the grade helps players’ scholarship chances

Miller Grove senior defensive back Terrance Moore, who has a 4.0 GPA, is receiving interest from Ivy League schools.
Terrance Moore understands that his responsibility to the Miller Grove football team doesn’t end when he walks off the field.Moore, a senior defensive back for the Wolverines, also is relied on as a tutor and mentor to some of his teammates. With a...

CDC to start $400 million construction project

Agency hopes to centralize metro operations The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hopes to spend $400 million to build new, centralized office space, the majority of which will be centered at the federal agency’s Chamblee campus, officials...

Health-care town hall spirited, but civil

Hank Johnson
Congressman Hank Johnson’s health-care reform town hall meeting drew a diverse crowd–men, women, young, elderly, conservatively dressed, unconventionally styled, and representing a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds.It was far too large a crowd f...

Decatur church buys Paulk’s former church for nearly $18M

Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, the former home of Bishop Earl Paulk Jr., sold Aug. 10 for $17.6 million to another Decatur church, said the representative of the real estate company that brokered the deal. The Greater Traveler’s Rest Baptist Church...

School system to extend judge’s bullying probe

DeKalb County schools chief Crawford Lewis has extended the contract with retired Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore – a contract that has already earned her about $170,000, a school spokesman said. The contract extension asks Moore to investigate ...

Retired judge: Boy who hanged himself was not bullied at school

Retired Fulton Superior Court Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore at a press conference
Jaheem Herrera, an 11-year-old student who hanged himself last month, was not bullied at Dunaire Elementary School, a retired judge heading an internal DeKalb County School System review said May 20. “There is no evidence of bullying at Dunaire El...

Superintendent criticizes media, announces press conference for next week

After broadly criticizing recent media coverage of the suicide of 11-year-old Jaheem Herrera, DeKalb County schools Superintendent Crawford Lewis said Wednesday the school district will release the results of an internal review of the circumstance...

Community rallies against bullying

by Conswella C. Bennett The attorney for the family of Jaheem Herrera announced during a “Stand for Children Rally” Saturday, May 9, at Beulah Baptist Church in Decatur that they are moving forward with a wrongful death lawsuit against the DeKa...

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