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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...