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Joy and pain in waiting for word from Haiti

Fritz Aristilde is relieved to know his sister is alive in Haiti.
Fritz Aristilde will tell anyone who will listen that God answers prayers. After nearly a week of gut-wrenching waiting and imaging worst possible outcomes, Aristilde received word on Jan. 19 that his sister is alive and safe in Haiti. “I am great,...

Instinct makes Chamblee guards a dangerous duo

Chamblee senior guards David Mason (left) and Langston Hall. Photo by Robert Naddra
by Robert Naddra Robert@dekalbchamp.com   Eye contact. That’s all David Mason and Langston Hall need to catch the opposition off guard. The seniors have done plenty of that this season for the Chamblee basketball team, helping the Bulldogs to a to...

HAITI DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS

A market vendor covers her face from garbage smoke in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, March 17, 2005. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
UPDATE: Sheriff Thomas Brown will kick-off the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office Haiti disaster relief efforts today at 2 p.m. with a personal donation of $1,000.  The Sheriff’s Office will be accepting monetary donations at a station set up outside ...

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...

In wake of shooting death, Miller urges residents to find other ways to celebrate

In the wake of the death of 4-year-old Marquel Peters, DeKalb Police are reviewing their response to the incident. William Miller, the DeKalb County director of Public Safety, and other police officials met with the boy’s family last week to expres...

Lewis: Serious budget trauma headed for the district

DeKalb County School System Superintendent Crawford Lewis predicts the school district will face a budget deficit next year of more than $50 million. Photos by Jonathan Cribbs
The DeKalb County School System is headed for serious budget trauma, Superintendent Crawford Lewis said this month. Over the last four years, the school district has slashed the budget by more than $10 million each year, and this year is no different...

Towers wins first duals title; 4 county teams qualify for state

From left, Nolan Johnson, Quevin Campbell, Demetrius Abner, Rodney Wooten and Tam Vu were instrumental in bringing Towers its first Area Duals championship. Photos by Robert Naddra
Towers last won the DeKalb County Wrestling Championships in 1995, the same year its last state individual champion was crowned. The Titans were consistently among the top teams in the state from the 1970s through the mid 1990s. Towers’ 28 top-10 t...

Love of cars and ice cream turned into business

  As a boy growing up in Columbus, Warren Pickard spent memorable moments watching cars whiz by the intersection in front of his house. He sat on his porch watching those cars and developing a lifelong love. “I was looking at cars all day,” rec...