Riverdale News

A would-be Atlanta thief apparently thought long and hard about his plans to rob a Clayton County gas station.

Here's a list of three new job opportunities from the Georgia Labor Department. The first is for an assistant property manager in College Park that pays between $25,000 and $30,000 a year.

Thought for the week: A broken relationship can be repaired, but only if you are willing to try.

Virginia L. 'Jini' Parman Little, 83, of Hapeville, Ga., died on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, following a long illness.

Riverdale High School Ninth Grade Academy Coordinator Jermale Jenkins has his hands full, but not all the time with school books.

Tired of school uniforms, more than 1,500 Clayton County high school students came to school on Friday in what school officials called "non-appropriate dress." Now the students are facing suspensions, detentions and other punishments.

A man remains in intensive care at Grady Memorial Hospital after he was shot several times in a Riverdale apartment, Clayton County police said Tuesday.

Riverdale and Kingsbridge got a lucky parking break last month when street-cleaning rules were suspended for six to eight weeks.

In the latest example of problems with court-ordered ankle monitors, a DeKalb County murder suspect cut her ankle bracelet Tuesday and disappeared.

Jeff Gardner delicately scrapes away a century of red clay and scoops the remains of a child into a casket.

Clayton County's first charter school has become so popular that it has just added 14 classrooms to handle the overflow of students.

A once-homeless woman pleaded not guilty Friday to capital murder charges stemming from a 2007 motel fire killed five people, four from one family, including two children.

With plans to build a new public magnet school in Kenner on hold for now, Jefferson Parish School Board member Glenn Haynes Jr.

The search for a missing Fairburn woman endedThursday night. Investigators said Deniecia Lester, a mother of three was found safe.

Police issued warrants for four people who stole a deployed soldier's credit card and then used it to buy $6,500 in burglary tools.

A Union City man was booked in the Clayton County jail Monday on charges he stabbed his ex-girlfriend and her 15-year-old daughter.

A Clayton County Waffle House remains closed while employees clean up from a shooting Saturday night.

Their arrests follow the arrests of four other Georgia men about a week ago for the same type of alleged crime.

Police say a woman who had been sought as a possible kidnap victim has been located in the Riverdale area and arrested.

In one of the most watched races in Clayton County, a fired Jonesboro police chief, who was running in last Tuesdaya s election for a seat on the city council beside the mayor who terminated him earlier this year, was unsuccessful in his bid.