Clayton County News

Saturday mix: a 900 lb man died after spending 8 months in a recliner, Dalia Dippolito tried to hire a hit-man to kill her husband and a Clayton County Georgia teacher has been charged with putting a 'hit' on one of his students First: Daniel Webb, 33, died after spending 8 months in a home recliner.

A police chase involving a stolen car started in Atlanta and ended in Clayton County Friday afternoon.

A plan to build a major passenger terminal in downtown Atlanta might soon boast new life, in the form of an $80 million-plus jump start, state officials said at Transportation Board meetings Wednesday and Thursday.

Clayton County sheriff's deputies are searching for more than 100 sheriff's badges issued to people who aren't allowed to carry them.

After nearly a week on the run, a man accused of killing a worker who came to repossess his vehicle is scheduled to stand before a judge Wednesday.

Georgia fire officials say a blaze that destroyed a Clayton County church was caused by arson, and a $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest.

A judge acquitted a Clayton County school board member charged with domestic violence.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Fulton County Police spokeswoman Melissa Parker says U.S. marshals arrested 29-year-old Justin Moore in DeKalb County Tuesday morning.

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

A two-alarm fire destroyed a Morrow church early Sunday. No one was hurt in the blaze at Calvary Baptist Church.

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 two-alarm fire destroyed Calvary Baptist Church in Morrow early Sunday. No one was hurt in the blaze, which broke out in the rear of the wood-frame church around 3:45 a.m. "When the first unit got there, the flames had pretty much consumed the rear of the structure and were already through the roof," Clayton County Fire Battalion Chief Landry ...

Flames consumed a Clayton County church early Sunday Morning. Calvary Baptist Church in Morrow is no longer standing, as a two-alarm blaze went through the roof and destroyed the building.

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.

Police have found the gray Mustang belonging to a man accused of killing a repo man and wounding another while they tried to repossess the car.

A Clayton County school was on lockdown after a student told administrators there may be a weapon on campus.

A Clayton County Waffle House re-opened Monday morning after being closed whileA employees cleaned up from a shooting Saturday night.

A tractor trailer spilled 80,000 lbs. of sand causing a traffic tie up at I-675 north at Anvil Block Road in Clayton County.

A man stabbed his ex-girlfriend multiple times and her daughter following a break-up, a Clayton County police spokesman said.

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.