Dekalb County News

The victim was a Harvard-educated businessman who was shot to death minutes after he dropped his son off at a suburban Atlanta day care center.

The following is a combined listing of reported DeKalb County Police and Gwinnett County Police activity Feb.

Two weather warnings have been issued for Saturday by the National Weather Service - a wind advisory and warnings of a surge of artic air.

Fifty-four of DeKalb's best and brightest high school seniors and their teachers will be honored at the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce's annual PAGE STAR Student Teacher Award Luncheon on Feb.

The Dekalb County Area Alumni Chapter of Albany State University holds it's annual Scholarship Winter Social on Saturday, February 11, 2012.

The 100 Black Men of DeKalb County will host a youth summit focusing on financial literacy this weekend in DeKalb.

An RV outfitted with computers, private interview area and office gear for job seekers will hit the streets of DeKalb County this month.

A suspect charged with aggravated assault caused a two hour stand-off with DeKalb County Sheriff's deputies Friday morning by barricading himself in a relative's home in Decatur.

South DeKalb residents are on the battlefield again, this time against a composting facility that is being proposed on the grounds of the La Farge Quarry in Lithonia.

A long talked about City of DeKalb is now a bill in the Georgia House of Representatives.

LITHONIA, Ga. -- DeKalb County police have issued a Mattie's Call for a missing 76-year-old man who has Alzheimer's disease.

After hearing so much from Rep. [Mike] Jacobs and the [Brookhaven Yes/Citizens for North DeKalb] Committee about how the proposed City of Brookhaven police department will be wonderful simply because it will mimic the Dunwoody police model, I felt it was time to look deeper into the department that is to be replicated.A And, quite frankly, what I ... (more)

A Columbia family says a boy dropped off at the police department near Atlanta is not a midlands toddler who has been missing since November.

The Toco Hill CVS on North Druid Hills Road was robbed at gunpoint early Thursday morning, DeKalb County police said - the 24-hour pharmacy's second armed robbery in three months.

A speech therapist from Stone Mountain was found guilty Thursday of defrauding the Georgia Medicaid program of nearly $60,000, the state Attorney General's Office announced.

A man has been arrested after attempting to kidnap a child Wednesday from a Wal-Mart in west Georgia, according to a report in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

OK, it looks as if there won't be a vote to create the city of Brookhaven, after all.

On a day where almost everything went wrong, Atibi Thomas and Keith Roach were lucky about one thing when they met nearly two years ago: Roach wore his bulletproof vest.

While the citizens' comments over the Red Dog Park were certainly the most spirited discussion at Tuesday's city council meeting, the controversial space wasn't the only topic addressed.

The southeast corner of Gresham and Ormewood avenues in East Atlanta is truly undergoing a metamorphosis.