Dante Ferguson was a defensive coordinator at three different high schools before landing the head coach job at Stone Mountain last season. But his playing days in the late 1980s were spent at Vanderbilt University as a tight end in a spread offense ...

DeKalb County Board of Education member Zepora Roberts apologized this month for threatening to slug a television reporter who asked her questions about her children’s employment with the school district and nepotism claims. The threat was the wors...

The DeKalb County government is looking for public input on the creation of its strategic plan. The county will hold several community forums to allow residents, business owners and other stakeholders to give input into the plan. The planning proces...

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...

An ordinance banning animals from being tethered was passed last week by Doraville’s City Council. Owners wishing to tie up their animals must now be present or face the possibility of heavy fines. The restrictions, said mayoral assistant Luke Howe...

A handwriting expert with the U.S. Secret Service is one of several federal agents assisting the Dunwoody Police Department with its investigation into the killing of an elderly Dunwoody couple. The bodies of Roger Abbott, 82, and Dorothy Abbott, 78,...

Summer reading programs first started in the late 1800s to give urban students something to do during their breaks while their rural counterparts sweated it out on the farm. Now they’ve got a new purpose: stanching our youth’s collective summer b...

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...

Seven former DeKalb County parks became Dunwoody property last month, as city officials marked the 165-acre handover by pledging to make several improvements. Mayor Ken Wright, one of several officials who toured the parks last week, called it an “...

Temperatures soared into the 90s Saturday, yet the Chamblee Farmers Market enjoyed a well-attended debut. Live music, chef demonstrations and raffle tickets helped kick off the event in the city’s Antiques Row district, which organizer The Chamblee...