Dekalb County News

The DeKalb County School Board is considering a property tax increase, two teacher furlough days, the elimination of 140 central office positions, and increasing class size by one student to close a $73 budget shortfall.

City Attorney Brian Anderson agreed to resign his post Tuesday in lieu of being fired by a council that was lined up against him.

DeKalb County police are investigating a shooting involving a 4-year-old boy. Spokeswoman Mekka Parish says authorities are investigating the incident as an accidental discharge.

A Decatur and Avondale Estates residents looking for work can check out DeKalb County's Mobile Career Center, or "jobs bus," on Wednesday, May 30.

The DeKalb County police officer accused of hitting and killing a man while rushing in his patrol car to a shooting earlier this month has been in trouble within the department before.

Investigators say Sgt. Jerry Banks interfered as DeKalb police officers executed a search warrant at a Lithonia home on Browns Mill Ferry Drive on Friday.

DeKalb County Police said the boy suffered a light graze wound to his forehead while handling a gun in his Ellenwood home.

The Callanwolde Concert Band will play with concerts this month in honor of our armed forces.

A community workshop will be held Thursday to allow residents, business owners and others interested in the Kensington area to shape the area in south-central DeKalb County.

Looking for work in and around Stone Mountain? Patch compiles listings from sources such as theA Department of Labor , web sites of individual businesses -- Stone Mountain Park , for example -- and job search sites including snagajob.com to help you.

Supporters of the Fernbank Science Center in Druid Hills have started online petititons to save it from being closed because of budget cutting by the DeKalb County Board of Education.

DeKalb County investigators hope surveillance footage from a gas station will lead them to the person who shot and killed a man early Monday morning.

A DeKalb County police sergeant is out on bond following his arrest on Friday. Sgt. Jerry Banks was charged with obstruction during the execution of a search warrant at a friend's home in Lithonia.

Animals Rights Protesters Arrested on Campus DeKalb County Police officers, assisted by the Emory Police Department , arrested two Georgia Animal Rights and Protection protesters at Emory Monday afternoon on the grounds of criminal trespass.

Parents, residents and friends of Fernbank Science Center are circulating two petitions that ask DeKalb County Schools to keep the doors of the science center open.

The DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office says a gunshot wound caused the death of a man found inside his North Decatur home two weeks ago.

A former Tucker Middle School teacher allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old girl and spied on a co-worker as well as a female guest at his Lithonia home.

Most of the public pools in the Metro Atlanta area are now open and just in time as school let out for the summer.

An autopsy report neither confirms nor challenges a pickup truck driver's statement that a bicyclist he ran over "appeared to be kneeling in the roadway as if he had fallen." The April 30 wreck killed Paul Taylor, 53 , of Greenglade Road, who worked as a physicians assistant at Emory.

Photographer Travis Hudgons captured the tears, joy and pride at the commencement ceremony for Stephenson High School on May 24 at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.