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News update, May 11

SWAT standoff ends with two arrests, one suspect on the run Two burglary suspects were arrested Thursday, May 10, after DeKalb County Police Department’s SWAT team was called out to a Clarkston apartment complex. DeKalb police officers we...

Wade Walker YMCA on schedule for September opening

A $17.1 million YMCA at Wade Walker Park in Stone Mountain is expected to be open this fall. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
DeKalb County’s newest YMCA recreation center is on schedule to open in early September. The $17.1 million construction project is set to be completed in early July and turned over to the YMCA in August, said Roy Wilson, director of the county’s ...

DeKalb Schools lease of Fernbank Forest to end in June

Soon the DeKalb County School District will no longer be responsible for the care and maintenance of Fernbank Forest, a 65-acre tract of mature mixed hardwood forest that serves as a nature preserve. On June 30, a 45-year lease of the preserve to DCS...

Plans to move north police precinct may change

DeKalb County officials said it still plans to relocate the north police precinct from Dunwoody to land next to the DeKalb Peachtree Airport (PDK), but that those plans may change if Brookhaven residents vote “yes” to cityhood. Currently, the pre...

Three police officers accused of beating juveniles

A DeKalb County Police sergeant and two officers were indicted May 10 for allegedly beating suspects. DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James said the officers had “a pattern of conduct…that was being directed by a sergeant to junior of...

News update, May 10

Doraville home intruders identified Khaleaf Silvera and Alfred Wilson are facing charges of aggravated assault, armed robbery, false imprisonment, kidnapping and felony murder after a Doraville home invasion that left one person dead. In th...

13 charged in FAMU hazing incident

The Florida State Attorney’s Office has charged 13 individuals in the hazing death of DeKalb-native Robert Champion. Champion, a student at Florida A&M University who was a member of the school’s famous “Marching 100” band, was found unre...

Transportation tax: A regional road to growth?

DeKalb County and state leaders at a transportation tax forum May 3 said a proposed one-cent sales tax is the region’s best shot for expanding its transit system. “We all must go out to vote for this wonderful project that has regional cooperatio...

DeKalb CEO vetoes $75,000 for commissioners’ proposed communications specialist

After overriding a veto by DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis, the Board of Commissioners has set in motion plans to move $75,000 from his budget to fund a public information officer position for the board. But commissioners are leaving the door open for some ...

Grand jury urges DA to investigate board of education, again

A grand jury, in a recent presentment, urged DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James to convene a special grand jury to investigate the actions of the DeKalb County Board of Education. This is the second time in the past six months that grand ju...