Mike Crane defeated Deborah Honeycutt on Aug. 10, in the primary runoff for the U.S. House of Representatives District 13 Republican nomination. With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, Crane earned 15,277 votes (67.5 percent) to 7,345 votes for H...

In anticipation of the November general election, a few party candidates still must be determined in runoff balloting Aug. 10. In DeKalb County, the voter registration office at 4380 Memorial Drive in Decatur is the only site open for early voting, w...

Sitting outside a breakfast restaurant in downtown Decatur on July 23, Stan Watson was already wondering how the CEO and the board of commissioners might better communicate with each other when the next budgetary season arrives in December. “I donâ...

Former state representative Stan Watson easily defeated three other candidates in the race for the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners’ district 7 seat. Watson won 68 percent of the July 20 vote, according to preliminary county results. Kathryn Ri...

U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson fended off Vernon Jones and Connie Stokes in the Democratic primary July 20 and will face Republican Liz Carter in November’s general election. Johnson narrowly avoided a runoff for the 4th congressional district that could h...

Experience was the theme of the night in the state Senate and House races in the primary election on July 20. Fran Millar, who spent 12 years representing District 79 in the state House of Representatives, was on his way to an easy win for the Republ...

DeKalb results in statewide races largely mirrored statewide results. In the U.S. Senate race, at press time it appeared that Michael Thurman will be the Democratic challenger to incumbent Johnny Isakson, who had no Republican challengers. In the gov...