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Fugitive Yancey found, caught in Belize

Derrick Yancey
Federal agents arrested former DeKalb County sheriff’s deputy Derrick Yancey – charged with the murder of his wife and a day laborer – in the Central American country of Belize over the weekend, ending a nearly six-month, international manhun...

States bans Atherton Elementary educators for CRCT scam

Two Atherton Elementary School educators implicated in a test tampering scandal have been suspended from teaching in Georgia for up to two years after a state commission’s ruling.  The Georgia Professional Standards Commission suspended former Ath...

Couple who abandoned baby may face more severe charges

As she sat on her front porch Friday afternoon looking at her front lawn, 61-year-old Anni Harris couldn’t really fathom what had happened to her neighbor, Landis Stewart-Moore.   Stewart-Moore, 19, had been arrested a day earlier for walking outs...

State shuts down embattled Lithonia charter school for poor performance

The State Board of Education shut down the Academy of Lithonia Charter School in June for poor performance, revoking the charter it held for about eight years, a state official said.   The school on Evans Mill Road has served students in kindergarte...

Sembler project signs Brookhaven leases with four anchor tenants

A company developing a commercial project in the Brookhaven neighborhood has lured four anchor tenants to sign leases – without a significant county tax break the company has sought for several months. Sembler, a Florida development company, signe...

Final DeKalb schools report in boy’s suicide says bullying not a factor

An in-depth report on the suicide of former Dunaire Elementary School student Jaheem Herrera released last month concludes there is no evidence that fellow students bullied the boy, and a range of factors contributed to his death in April.The report ...

School board fires assistant principal implicated in cheating scandal

The DeKalb County School System intends to fire an assistant principal who was caught in the middle of a statewide test tampering scandal in June, a district spokesman said. The school district sent a letter to former Atherton Elementary School Assi...

Decatur church buys Paulk’s former church for nearly $18M

Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, the former home of Bishop Earl Paulk Jr., sold Aug. 10 for $17.6 million to another Decatur church, said the representative of the real estate company that brokered the deal. The Greater Traveler’s Rest Baptist Church...

School system to extend judge’s bullying probe

DeKalb County schools chief Crawford Lewis has extended the contract with retired Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore – a contract that has already earned her about $170,000, a school spokesman said. The contract extension asks Moore to investigate ...

Retired judge: Boy who hanged himself was not bullied at school

Retired Fulton Superior Court Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore at a press conference
Jaheem Herrera, an 11-year-old student who hanged himself last month, was not bullied at Dunaire Elementary School, a retired judge heading an internal DeKalb County School System review said May 20. “There is no evidence of bullying at Dunaire El...