Lithonia News

Pedestrians in the city of Lithonia will soon have sidewalks and pedestrian crosswalks along the portion of Evans Mill Road within the city limits.

Police have identified a man struck and killed on I-20 as James Webb III. The 25-year-old Lithonia man was killed early Sunday morning, DeKalb County police spokesman Officer Jason Gagnon told the AJC on Tuesday.

The Big Guy in red will be arriving at area malls this weekend and next to help kick off the holiday shopping season.

First Afrikan Presbyteriana s choir will perform at this yeara s joint service with Ousley UMC and Big Miller Grove.

Parsons Construction Technology Group and Jacobs Project Management Co. will oversee the DeKalb School Systema s $466 million construction program for the next six weeks.

Horace Haynes , layaway associate, helps Bianca Lewis, of Lithonia, load a cart at Kmart in Doraville.

The weeklong focus on women at Big Miller Grove Missionary Baptist Church culminates on Nov.

While most municipalities elected leaders on Nov. 3 to fill vacant positions, the cities of Atlanta and Clarkston are preparing for run-off elections to elect their mayors on Dec.

The City of Lithonia's seven-member police force has received a gift just in time for the holidays from the City of Clarkston and its Mayor Lee Swaney: a 2005 Crown Victoria.

C. Aaron-Paschal , Felicia Mayfield, Phil McGregor; Barbara Storey , Ellen Yates and John Yates slideshow Six men and women who give generously of their time to the YMCA were recognized Nov.

House District 58 voters will be headed back to the polls on Dec. 1 for the runoff election between attorney Asha Jackson and businessman Kevin Johnson.

Besides playing a pivotal part in William P. Parks' musical dramedy "The Woman I Am Today," Mahalia A. Jackson's fingerprints are all over the production, which visits the Morton Theatre on Sunday.

Bernice King is the new president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the U.S. civil rights group first led by her slain father said Friday.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference has announced the election of the Reverend Bernice King, the youngest daughter of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

Individuals and groups can donate coats for needy children and adults on Saturday at the Stonecrest Mall in Lithonia.

These illegally placed signs were confiscated by the Lithonia maintenance department.

No one claims to know who put up this sign that "ranks"some candidates for City Council in Lithonia.

A Dunwoody apartment complex was on edge Tuesday night after learning that one of its residents was allegedly abducted, beaten and robbed.

Dunwoody police need your help to find men who kidnapped a 60-year-old apartment resident driving him from ATM to ATM forcing him to withdraw money from his account.

Nobody wanted them, or maybe that's what the people who conceived them thought. Brant Sanderlin Margaret Freeman tries to call the mother who abandoned a baby last month in DeKalb County to inform her there was a funeral planned.