Lithonia News

Maggie Woods was the first black person to serve on Lithonia's City Council. Her daughter Barbara Lester also served on the council once.

This year, the Fourth of July lands on a Saturday, but celebrations are planned all weekend.

KNOXVILLE - Cameron Tatum was flying high in the Pilot Rocky Top League on Monday night, even if he is still under the radar.

Don't take it personally when some driver cuts you off on I-85 and throws up a one-fingered salute as a parting gesture.

DeKalb County police Wednesday were investigating an overnight shooting at an apartment complex near Lithonia that left one person dead and another critically wounded.

A Georgia man has been jailed on allegations he confessed to stabbing his wife in Lithonia, Ga., late Sunday and then reportedly driving nearly three hours before stopping in Aiken to take her for treatment, officials said.

A stabbing and abduction that began in DeKalb County ended in South Carolina on Sunday.

New York detectives returned to the Bronx on Friday without the man they had picked up in Cobb County Wednesday night for a 1991 homicide.

A 20-year-old Jasper man was charged with "speed too fast for conditions" in a June 4 accident on I-75, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis and the DeKalb Board of Commissioners recently honored the life and legacy of Maggie Carolyn Woods, the first black woman to serve on the Lithonia City Council.

Bikers will ride in memory of late DeKalb Police officer Renaldo C. St. James on June 13.

ERIC DAVID MORGAN STUEPFERT received a Master of Arts in biblical counseling from Luther Rice Seminary University in Lithonia, Ga.

GM's filing for bankruptcy protection today; reports say Jennifer Hudson's loved ones threw her a baby shower Saturday; Kimora Lee Simmons' daughters now have a baby brother.

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DeKalb police say two men are dead following an afternoon shootout at a crowded Lithonia park.

Two men with a long-standing dispute are dead following an afternoon shootout at a crowded Lithonia park.

The young fries at the YMCA Academies of South DeKalb recently took the stage as they participated in promotion exercises held at Berean Christian Church in Stone Mountain.

McDonald's is launching its new line of McCafe coffees with freebies too good to miss out on.

A Georgia Bureau of Investigation probe into the Muscogee County Marshal's Office employment of a congressman's stepdaughter found no illegal activity.

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