Ellenwood News

Jennifer Pate weighed 227 pounds in September of 2008, down from her starting weight of 289 pounds.

Two men suspected of breaking into a house in foreclosure in Clayton County are in custody Thursday following a foot chase with police.

How long she's kept it off: "I started my weight loss in January 2008. I reached my goal inA September 2009, butA I still want to lose 25 more pounds," says Pate.

DeKalb police said two men forced their way into an Ellenwood home Friday around 8:30 a.m. Police said a woman was pulling into her driveway when two armed men approached her car and forced her inside her home on the 2000 block of Deer Springs Drive.

Cedar Grove High School and Cedar Grove Elementary Schools are on lockdown in DeKalb County.

Elzie Bacon Elzie Morgan Bacon died Monday, December 7, 2009. He was born on August 10, 1951, to the Rufus Bacon and Beatrice Bacon in Manassas, Georgia.

Police on Saturday arrested a 20-year-old man accused of killing a teen last Sunday night at an Ellenwood apartment complex.

Residents of the Holly Hill subdivision in Ellenwood are shocked by the news that a couple who have been their neighbors for years are accused of holding a "worker" against her will.

U.S. prosecutors said a Georgia minister and his wife enticed a woman from Africa to the U.S. -- and then forced her to work as a housekeeper and nanny.

A former Marietta High School teacher is found not guilty of charges his sexual affair with a 17-year-old student was tantamount to sexual assault.

A federal grand jury in Atlanta has indicted an Ellenwood, Ga., husband and wife, Juna Gwendolyn Babb, 54, and Michael J. Babb, 53, on charges of conspiracy, forced labor, document servitude - which is confiscating someone's passport and visa - and harboring an alien for financial gain, the Justice Department announced.

After 41 years in this country, Marie Etheridge, born and reared in Britain, was thoroughly acclimated in America.

Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington has announced he will resign at the end of the year.

In Ellenwood, Ga., a burglar broke into a local church and made off with a laptop and some pricey sound equipment.

Someone made off with loot from a Georgia church but also left behind an apology.

Two former state employees have been sentenced for their parts in a criminal charge-fixing scheme.

An autopsy was unable to determine the cause of death for a 19-year-old Mercer University student found dead in his dorm room Tuesday, Bibb County's coroner said today.

Clayton County police are investigating a home invasion in which a couple was tied up and the wife was beaten.

Workers are renovating a 32,000-square-foot warehouse space to house a womena s-only gym in west Atlanta.

The Clayton County Commission has passed a resolution directing its Office of Economic Development to conduct an impact study on the decision by commissioners to terminate the public transit C-Tran service March 31.