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Holocaust survivor among honorees at Oglethorpe commencement

Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson had a message of faith and perseverance for attendees at Oglethorpe University’s commencement ceremony on May 12. Dawson, an 85-year-old accomplished pianist, Holocaust survivor and former faculty member at Indiana Univers...

Man killed at drive-in, another killed by officer responding to crime

A man was shot and killed at a south DeKalb drive-in theater early Tuesday morning, May 15, and another was killed on Memorial Drive minutes later when he was hit by a DeKalb County Police officer responding to the crime, police said. According ...

News update, May 15

FBI, police arrest suspect in bank robberies The FBI, in cooperation with the DeKalb County Police Department, arrested a Stone Mountain man and charged him with seven bank robberies committed during a 10-month period that started in July 2011.&...

Police officer’s wife attacked during apparent robbery

The wife of a DeKalb County Police sergeant is in critical condition after being attacked during an apparent robbery outside her Lithonia home. The victim returned home at 3:30 a.m. from an evening out with friends when she was physically assaulted o...

News update, May 14

DeKalb men charged in Social Circle killing Two DeKalb County men were arrested May 10 for the killing of a man whose body was found in Social Circle. Corey Thomas, 20, of Decatur, and Antonio Jones, 24, of Stone Mountain, were arrested and...

DCSD launches social networking initiative

The DeKalb County School District has launched a social networking initiative to interact with stakeholders and promote student success. Officials unveiled DCSD’s new Twitter handle @DeKalbSchools at a May 3 event recognizing salutatorians and vale...

County property appraisals drop 6 percent for 2012

DeKalb County home appraisals dropped 6 percent lower than last year’s home values and county leaders see that as positive. The county’s board of assessors voted May 3 on a tax digest that drops an average of 6 percent for properties in DeKalb ci...

Women talk to women about acquiring and keeping financial resources

An afternoon of free financial advice drew approximately 25 women to the Wesley Chapel Public Library April 28 as the Decatur/DeKalb chapter of Coalition of 100 Black Women hosted the first seminar in its My Sister’s Keeper series. Although the ser...

Program helps East Atlanta residents in need of emergency home repair

For the past two years the East Atlanta Village Community Association’s Neighbor in Need program has been helping elderly or low-income residents with emergency home repairs at no cost to them. Jeff Whitehouse, chairman of the Neighbor in Need Comm...

DeKalbites make TV debut on game and reality shows

Sherika Little of Lithonia chats with Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak.
“Are you ready for your close-up?” Apparently the answer was yes for several DeKalb residents who had their 15-minutes of fame recently through appearances on television game and reality shows. In April, at least three local families had their ap...