Decatur News

When you listen to the intimate sound of the Indigo Girls music, somehow it doesn't seem surprising that Emily Saliers and Amy Ray have known each other for a long time.

Stifling summer heat and pesky bugs persuaded Kim Hitchcock to morph her Decatur, Ga., deck into a covered screened porch.

Sentenced by Judge Michael N. Annis Larry Vernode Holloway III , 18, of the 2500 block of Thomas Lane, three counts of theft by receiving stolen property; Nov.

DECATUR, Ga. -- The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is warning the public about an e-mail circulating on the Internet that has an explicit child pornography video attached.

Wisps of information drifted out of Tuesday's hearings with Dr. Michael Reed and five of his co-defendants in a federal drug case.

Ken Malcome, an ESPNU 150 Watch List running back from Southwest DeKalb , has accepted a scholarship offer from the Bulldogs over Florida.

Destiny Barker, a Gritman Junior Volunteer and Genesee High School senior, was awarded the $500 Besst Family Scholarship, presented by Tim and Kara Besst at the annual Junior Volunteer banquet held at Gritman Medical Center.

Staff Photo by John Rawlston GBI crime scene investigator Audey Murphy photographs a bullet-ridden truck with a handgun on the roof in the parking lot of the Chick-fil-A restaurant in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., on Wednesday, June 24, 2009.

Young Jin Yang of Decatur, Ga., was named to the Dean's List of Emory College, the undergraduate, liberal arts college of Emory University in Atlanta for the 2009 spring semester.

About 1,850 people were left without power in parts of Decatur in two unrelated incidents Tuesday afternoon.

It's been two decades since a group of women from the Atlanta area decided to create an organization for people who want to make friends while enjoying the great outdoors.

It has been more than two decades since the Indigo Girls made their music debut, and the duo is still going strong, now on a coast-to-coast tour.

Early Saturday morning - as the last few notes of the band lingered in the air and vendors began breaking down their carts - a distinct sound could be heard at the Decatur Beach Party.

Former Atherton Elementary School administrators James Berry and Doretha Alexander have been arrested for allegedly falsifying and altering a government document.

Workers are installing walls and other renovations at the DeKalb County School Systema s Mountain Industrial Center in Tucker, to make space for the systema s administrative and school board offices.

It's time to roll up your sleeves and take out any work week frustations out on the lanes with the Decatur Women's Sports League bowling league.

Three of the country's largest black fraternities are joining forces with Big Brothers Big Sisters to help woo black men into the national mentoring program.

Main Category: Mental Health Also Included In: Psychology / Psychiatry Article Date: 15 Jun 2009 - 1:00 PDT Mental Health America announced Sharon Jenkins Tucker of Decatur, Georgia, as its 2009 recipient of the Clifford W. Beers Award.

At 92, unsteady on his feet and hard of hearing, Harold Williams needed someone to care for him.

In Atlanta, 1 in 4 of the city's youth ages 16-21 lives in poverty. Each year over 18,000 people, are trafficked into the United States for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labor.