Dunwoody News

Crime will go up and libraries will close if DeKalb County doesn't raise taxes, CEO Burrell Ellis said Thursday.

Dunwoody residents have the power to help control the future appearance of their neighborhoods' commercial areas - but they need to tell city officials to make it happen.

Dunwoody Police are investigating the death Saturday of an alleged shoplifter after he was forcibly apprehended by Wal-Mart loss prevention officers.

Dunwoody Police are investigating after a man died while being detained for allegedly shoplifting at the Wal-Mart on Ashford-Dunwoody Road around 12:45 Saturday afternoon.

Dunwoody police said an alleged shoplifter collapsed Saturday while trying to flee a Wal-Mart store.

The four fire stations and police department headquarters in Sandy Springs are serving as donation spots for unwrapped toys for Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.

The man suspected of robbing up to 10 banks throughout north metro Atlanta - dubbed the "Lunchtime Bandit" by the press for his habit of striking in the early afternoon - was arrested at a Johns Creek apartment complex Dec.

A gas leak has closed several roads in DeKalb County, frustrating evening commuters.

Orchestra student and Dunwoody Elementary School fifth-grader Robert Lewallyn, 10, son of Carla and Bob Lewallyn, left, Dunwoody Elementary School Orchestra Director Vladimir Yampolsky, and Dunwoody Orchestra student and fourth-grader Isabella Velarde, 10, daughter of Bibiana and Orlando Velarde, get some practice time in prior to the orchestra's ...

Officials have set March 24 as the date when motorists can again take the Peachtree-Dunwoody bridge over Nancy Creek in Sandy Springs.

Mike Smith, director of public works with the city of Dunwoody, watches traffic pass by a speed radar sign Tuesday morning near Dunwoody Elementary School.

One suspect was arrested late Tuesday night after a fast food restaurant hold-up that police said might be connected to a similar incident at another restaurant a night earlier.

The Marist School and its neighbor, the YMCA, are sparring over a plan to build new parking spaces and tennis courts on the schoola s 78-acre property on Ashford Dunwoody Road in Dunwoody.

It has happened two nights in a row in Dunwoody. Two men wearing masks and jumpsuits commandeer fast food restaurants and terrorize employees at gunpoint.

Dunwoody has generally gotten high marks since its official formation on Dec. 1, 2008.

Dunwoody police have one suspect in custody and are searching for another after an armed robbery Tuesday night at the McDonald's on Cotillion Drive near I-285. It appears, but has not been confirmed, that the suspects in the McDonald's robbery were responsible for a similar holdup Monday night at the Burger King on Chamblee-Dunwoody Road.

Dunwoody Police Tuesday were investigating the overnight armed robbery of a fast food restaurant.

A serial bank robber is targeting banks from northwest Atlanta all the way to Dunwoody.

Seeking white male, slender in his late 20s to early 30s, who's fast on his feet.

The search is on for a serial bank robber who has hit seven north-Metro banks in three weeks.