Dekalb County News

Nineteen people were killed in Georgia traffic accidents over the Independence Day holiday weekend, including seven in metro Atlanta, the Georgia Department of Public Safety reported.

Three metro Atlanta elementary schools are having some of last year's CRCT scores thrown out for cheating - a move that will threaten their academic standing and may force them to return money they received for being education success stories.

The city of Atlanta issued a boil-water advisory notice Tuesday for a large area of North Atlanta.

Gov. Sonny Perdue has cleared the way for 11 road projects funded by the federal stimulus package to move forward.

Carol Hunstein says her mantra is: Equal justice for all litigants, be fair and impartial and treat everyone with dignity and respect.

A man convicted of racketeering and violations of Georgia securities law has been sentenced to 10 years in prison followed by 10 years probation.

An Atlanta chapter of the Masons and its senior officer are suing the state body and two high-ranking members of other Georgia chapters, saying leaders are trying to disband them because they accepted a black man as a member.

A traffic ticket fixing scheme has been uncovered by DeKalb County prosecutors, where former county employees destroyed or dismissed tickets in exchange for a personal payment.

ATLANTA a ' The Georgia Professional Standards Commission is investigating allegations that two DeKalb County school administrators changed answers on a standardized test to improve students' scores.

It's time to slow down on the interstates throughout the Atlanta area. Law enforcement agencies were set Thursday to crack down on speeders, part of a campaign by the governor's office of highway safety.

An investigation by the Glynn County school district has confirmed "test improprieties" at a Brunswick elementary school that is part of a statewide probe into allegations of cheating on standardized tests.

A developer with a major project in north DeKalb County might get a $52 million tax break from taxpayers Thursday.

Authorities have charged three more people in the killing of a Conyers landscaper, whose body was dumped in a Newton County Creek last week.

Workers are installing walls and other renovations at the DeKalb County School Systema s Mountain Industrial Center in Tucker, to make space for the systema s administrative and school board offices.

A suburban Atlanta principal who resigned amid an investigation into cheating on student tests was arrested Friday and accused of altering public documents.

With two top administrators at a DeKalb elementary school under suspicion of changing students' answers on the CRCTs, the DeKalb County District Attorney's office has now joined the investigation.

The DeKalb County district attorney's office is investigating allegations that two elementary school administrators changed answers on Georgia standardized tests to improve students' scores.

DeKalb County police Wednesday were investigating an overnight shooting at an apartment complex near Lithonia that left one person dead and another critically wounded.

DeKalb County police were on the scene of a shooting Tuesday afternoon. Investigators said the shooting happened on Abberly Way, near Tucker.

A leading state senator says it should be a crime for Georgia educators to change students' answers on standardized tests, and the governor has indicated he may be willing to support such a law.