Hapeville News

Tonyel Vanitia Byron, 33, 716 S. Ridge Ave., was charged Monday with a probation violation.

Revonne Lester, owner of Revonnea s Boutique, is shown at her Hapeville business where she has been since June 2008.

Hapeville Elementary School was placed on lockdown Monday morning after a man was shot at a nearby apartment complex, police said.

Pat Murphy, of College Park, has been a patron of Cafe at the Corner in Hapeville since 1991.

Which came first, the cupcake or our seemingly endless fascination with them? Is it because they really are a mini cake, rather than a slice? Is it that they're just so darned cute, with their swirls of frosting and kitschy decorations? Whatever the reason, the Atlanta cupcake revolution raves on, with more of the demi-cakes, from chunky monkey to ...

For now, tall mounds of recycled steel, concrete, tin, copper and asphalt dot the site that once housed the old Ford Motor Company plant in Hapeville.