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DeKalb students awarded Gates Millennium Scholarship

Mpaza Kapembwa, a student at Cross Keys High School, used his circumstances to develop leadership qualities that helped him become one of 94 students in Georgia to earn the Gates Millennium Scholarship. Seventeen-year-old Kapembwa moved to Atlanta fr...

On the fast track: M.L. King duo leads charge toward state title

Sophomore Jada Martin, left, has the fastest time in the 200 meters in Class AAAAA and junior Felicia Brown has the fastest all-classification time in the 400 in the state for M.L. King. Photo by Robert Naddra
No matter what time of year it is, it’s probably track season for the M.L. King girls team. In addition to the traditional spring high school season, most of the girls are on club track teams and see each other during outdoor club season in the sum...

DeKalb Medical celebrates 50 years

DeKalb General Hospital, now DeKalb Medical, opened its doors at 9 a.m. on May 1, 1961. That afternoon hospital staff delivered the hospital’s first baby, the daughter of a Chamblee High School coach. Fifty years and a day later, a group of employe...

County facing $25 million shortfall, credit rating downgrade

Diminishing property values and a possible credit rating downgrade are forcing DeKalb County officials to reconsider a tax increase. Less than six weeks after Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Ratings Services downgraded its ratings on some of DeKalb...