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Carter takes state Senate District 42 in landslide

Jason Carter
Jason Carter – grandson of former President Jimmy Carter – won the state Senate District 42 seat on May 11. Carter, an Atlanta attorney, won 5,559 votes or about 66 percent of the vote to take the seat, according to preliminary state returns. Tom...

Albright delivers commencement speech at Agnes Scott College

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave Agnes Scott College's 2010 commencement speech, telling graduates that they would be looked upon to solve increasingly complex domestic and international problems in the future. Photo provided
The class of 2010 must help “restore the good name of democracy” across the world, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said at Agnes Scott College’s commencement this month. Albright told the class of nearly 200 graduates that as ...

Recorders court amnesty program leads to massive lines, tired ticket payers

Hundreds of people lined up in front of the DeKalb County Recorders Court to pay outstanding traffic tickets during the court’s amnesty program, which ended April 30. The court is trying to clear roughly 500,000 outstanding tickets from its rolls. Photo by J. Cribbs
Charles Edward approached the entrance to the DeKalb County Recorders Court on April 30 as a look of terror stretched across his face. A line of hundreds stretched from the court’s front door up the sidewalk along Camp Circle, and it ended over a h...

Lakeside triplets ranked Nos. 1, 2, 3 in academics

Lauren, left, Stephanie and Allison Boden. Lauren is Lakeside High School’s valedictorian of the class of 2010, and Stephanie and Allison are salutatorians. Photo by Michael Boden
A number of questionable Internet sources claim the chances of a mother having triplets are about 1 in 8,100. The chances of those triplets, 17 years after their birth, ranking first, second and third in their graduating class are likely so low, it w...

Lewis will leave with $85K in severance

Say goodbye to Crawford Lewis. The DeKalb County Board of Education severed ties this month with the embattled superintendent. The change occurs nearly two months after he temporarily resigned when police raided his home and office as part of an inve...

Jury’s verdict toughens road for Jones’ congressional run

Democratic fourth congressional district candidate Vernon Jones
The full effects of a recent racial discrimination verdict against former DeKalb County CEO and fourth district congressional candidate Vernon Jones probably will not be clear until after the election. But, as a Democratic candidate with a checkered...

Southwest DeKalb, MIT grad returns home to tutor math students

Stephanie Espy
It’s Stephanie Espy’s educational pedigree that stands out on first look. It starts at Southwest DeKalb High School. She graduated there in 1997. Then it moves to MIT in Massachusetts where she received a bachelor’s in chemical engineering in 2...

Former chorus teacher cleared of student indecency charges

Nathan Grigsby, left, listens in court.
A former Southwest DeKalb High School chorus teacher was cleared of charges related to a 2008 incident where students in his class stripped and pantomimed sex acts with other students to music, a jury ruled last month. Nathan Grigsby was found not gu...

After weeks of debate, committee decides not to close any schools in DeKalb

They met for nearly two months, every week, debating school closures. They looked at enrollments, they looked at outside recommendations, they asked questions and listened to hoards of furious parents who dragged along their begging children. Please ...

Lewis in separation talks with school board

The DeKalb County Board of Education is in talks with Superintendent Crawford Lewis about a separation agreement, board member Jay Cunningham said. Lewis stepped down temporarily last month amid police searches of his home and office, and a looming $...