Dacula News

Jury selection begins on Thursday for Gwinnett County dentist Barton Corbin. Corbin, who had a dental practice in Dacula, is accused of killing his wife, Jennifer, in the head at their Buford home in the early hours on December 4th, 2004.

The Zac Brown Band and a host of friends serenaded a sold-out crowd at the Fox Theatre with more than four hours of music Friday night, in a benefit to rebuild the Georgia Theatre.

An Auburn man was killed Sunday night when the car he was driving struck a tree after running off the same Gwinnett County road where another Auburn man died in a wreck two days earlier, police said.

An Auburn man died Sunday evening in a single-car crash near Dacula, according to the Gwinnett County Police Department.

Citizen-activists in Gwinnett County, Georgia, won a months-long battle with library officials October 21 when trustees at a specially called meeting voted unanimously to keep all 15 branches of the county system open as full-service libraries instead of converting three facilities to bookless computer centers or shuttering them altogether.

Gwinnett County police announced Oct. 26 that a coordinated, months long drug operation between the Narcotics Unit and District Attorney's Office netted seven pounds of cocaine, more than 1,500 grams of methamphetamine and eight suspects.

Faced with political disbandment, the Gwinnett County Library Board voted Wednesday evening to shelve its plan to restructure the library system.

Investigators with the Gwinnett County Police Narcotics unit Tuesday announced the successful conclusion of a long term narcotics operation.

What do a Hispanic grocery store, a mobile home in Lawrenceville and a ranch house in Dacula have in common? All three were bases of operation for eight local drug pushers who were arrested during a four-month-long investigation, Gwinnett County police announced at a press conference on Monday.

"We deprived them of 2.7 million dollars of profit," said Gwinnett DA Danny Porter.

In Gwinnett County, GA, apparently, changes in branch configuration ain't over 'til they're over.

The Gwinnett Library Board holds a special called meeting tonight to reconsider its proposed changes to the library system.

After county commissioners sent it a threatening letter, the Board of Trustees of the Gwinnett Library System has called a special meeting to reconsider proposed changes in library service.

Starting in Athens, Georgia, participants skate through beautiful country roads and quiet suburbia before navigating city streets and crossing the 87-mile finish line in Atlanta's Piedmont Park.

Three decades ago Tom Cordell was a jack-of-all-trades at a Carrollton radio station overseeing its day-to-day operations, sharing the announcing load, selling advertisements and so on.

Some Gwinnett County Commissioners are getting involved in the fight over the how to run Gwinnett County libraries.

The fiancee of a slain Gwinnett County sheriff's deputy is free of any possible criminal charges against her, the Gwinnett County District Attorney said Thursday morning.

The stakes have risen in an ongoing dispute between Gwinnett County Public Library officials and area residents served by the Dacula branch, despite the board having rescinded its August decision to close the three-year-old facility and shift the staff and collection to the yet-to-be-built Hamilton Mill Library.

A small contingent representing North Georgia Technical Collegea s photography department attended the recent Georgia Professional Photographers Associationa s annual convention on Jekyll Island.

The Dacula business group trying to save Gwinnett County's community-based library system is calling for the removal of the library's executive director.