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Residents still urged to stay off roads

The Georgia Department of Transportation along with Doraville Police Chief John King is urging residents not to drive until roads become more passable. “County and state transportation agencies do not have sufficient equipment to clear county roads...

Weather conditions force cancellations, road closings

  DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis is asking all DeKalb County residents to postpone any vehicular travel until the current weather conditions subside.   Since 9 p.m. Sunday until 2 p.m.. Monday, the 911 center has dispatched 919 calls, 748 for Poli...

The Champion newspaper closed today

The Champion newspaper offices will be closed today (Tuesday, Jan. 11) due to inclement weather.

Super siblings: Goodwins help lead the way at Southwest DeKalb

Their one-on-one basketball games typically consist of trash talking and physical play that includes an occasional push or shove. William and Persephone Goodwin didn’t used to be this close. The siblings, both standouts for their Southwest DeKalb h...

Ex-senator gets $35K for sewer campaign

As DeKalb County was gearing up for the announcement of its federal penalty for excessive sewer spills, the county had quietly hired a former reporter and politician to tackle the task of educating the public about the watershed woes. Steen Miles, a ...

Dunwoody man’s widow knew alleged killer

The man arrested earlier this week for the killing of Dunwoody resident Rusty Sneiderman seven weeks ago is not a stranger to the victim’s wife. Hemy Zvi Neuman, 48, of Buckhead, has been charged with murder in the November shooting of Sneiderman o...

Officer arrested on child molestation charges

A DeKalb County Police officer was arrested Jan. 4 in connection with allegations of sexual misconduct against a 15-year-old female. Quevius O. Thornton, 29, was arrested and charged with two counts of statutory rape, one count of aggravated child mo...

Arrest made in Sneiderman killing

Hemy Zvi Neuman, left, along with the original police released this sketch of the suspect..
UPDATE 1/6/11: Dunwoody man’s widow knew alleged killer   A Buckhead man has been arrested in connection with the November killing of Russell “Rusty” Sneiderman of Dunwoody. Hemy Zvi Neuman, 48, was arrested by Dunwoody Police on Jan. 4 and ch...

Dunwoody files $7 million lawsuit against DeKalb for park

Thirty-two-year Dunwoody resident Don Converse said he has never been to Arabia Park near Lithonia and probably never will. Instead he enjoys volunteering in community garden in nearby Brook Run Park. But Converse is tired of seeing the two dilapida...

Catalina Island: where Bogart, baseball and bison come together

Catalina’s most famous landmark, Catalina Casino built in 1929, has never had gambling. Photo by Kathy Mitchell
There is a bouncy little song about Catalina Island—“26 Miles”—that was popular in the 1950s. For years I mistakenly thought The Four Preps were singing “sunny Catalina is waiting for me.” Sunny is not a bad description of the place, but ...