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 ...

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...

Southwest DeKalb 52, Chamblee 41 Boys Stephenson 60, Chamblee 57. Langston Hall scored 32 pints for Chamblee. Frank Adams had 21 for Stephenson.  American Division Championship Girls Arabia Mountain 56, Lithonia 43 Boys Tucker 79, Lakeside 72. Shonz...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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. �...

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...

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...