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Tucker defeats Lovejoy 22-7 to win football state title

  Tucker coach Franklin Stephens last week refused to compare his 2008 state championship team with this year's team. However, Stephens changed his mind after Tucker's dominating 22-7 win over Lovejoy in the Class AAAA state championship g...

Schools gear up for holidays with service to needy

On Dec. 2, a group of girls from Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic School in DeKalb helped residents decorate for the holidays at Briarcliff Oaks, a senior living community. Photo by Daniel Beauregard
As the holiday season approaches, schools throughout DeKalb County are getting into the spirit by giving what they can to help the less fortunate, whether it be gathering items for care packages or decorating retirement homes. Carmen Graciaa, directo...

Officials and experts urge residents to coexist with urban coyotes

Some residents in DeKalb County have fallen prey to unwanted visitors who show up early in the morning and keep residents awake with their boisterous chatter. These bad-mannered visitors usually come out when there are few people around and, like it ...

Eddie Long taking time off from Lithonia megachurch

Embattled megachurch leader Bishop Eddie Long is taking an unspecified sabbatical from his church duties to try to mend his marriage after his wife filed for divorce. Long, who transformed New Birth Missionary Baptist Church from a congregation of 15...

Proposed Walmart needs county parking variance

The developer of Suburban Plaza in unincorporated Decatur is seeking to county permission to construct fewer parking spaces than required for a redeveloped shopping center that would include a proposed Walmart. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
Current plans for a revitalized Suburban Plaza, with Walmart as its anchor store, are dependent on approval from DeKalb County have fewer parking spaces than required. The 290,000-square-foot Suburban Plaza, located at the junction of North Decatur R...

Former Superior Court clerk receives $75,000 settlement

The case over who legitimately holds the position of the county’s clerk of Superior Court was settled quietly in October at a cost of $75,000 plus $10,000 in attorney fees. DeKalb County reached a settlement with former Superior Court Clerk Linda C...

DeKalb BOE amends Atkinson’s contract; system maintains accreditation

  The DeKalb County Board of Education unanimously approved the first amendment to Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson’s employment contract at a special called meeting on Nov. 30. Atkinson requested the board amend her contract so she would stop recei...

Tucker one win away from second state football championship

Tucker football coach Franklin Stephens appreciates the irony. A fumble last season in the final minutes of a Class AAAA semifinal kept Tucker out of the championship game. This year the ball bounced Tucker’s way and a fumble by Northside Warner Ro...

‘Cain Train’ derailed by allegations by Dunwoody woman

Former Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain ends his bid for the White House during a talk to supporters in DeKalb County. A Dunwoody woman’s claim that she had a 13-year affair with Cain, coupled with allegations of sexual harassment by several women, dashed the former businessman’s hopes of running the country. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
It was the allegations of a DeKalb County woman that derailed presidential hopeful Herman Cain’s bid for the White House and it was in DeKalb County that he announced the suspension of his campaign. “As false accusations about me continue, they h...

Doraville and Dunwoody voters elect new mayor, city council members

  Voters in Doraville and Dunwoody returned to the polls on Dec. 6 and elected new mayors and several city council members in a run-off election from November. In Doraville, voters elected to keep incumbent Mayor Donna Pittman in the seat ...