Michelle Wierson was found but mentally ill in the 2018 death of 5-year-old Miles Jenness. Deemed guilty but mentally ill, ...

Elementary schools define communities. They are the hearts and souls of neighborhoods. When they close, it can feel like ...

DeKalb County, Georgia, plans to discuss the implementation of a homeless day center during a regular meeting scheduled for February 26 at the Government Service Center.

After seven years, a week-long trial and a final contentious day of closing arguments, a jury will now decide whether Michelle Wierson was legally insane when she caused a 2018 crash that killed ...

Nearly 200 volunteers packed a county meeting room on a late Thursday night, Feb. 12, before fanning out across DeKalb County into the early hours of the morning to find and count people experiencing ...

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Decatur, GA — The Decatur Downtown Development Authority (DDA) board voted Friday to work with the nonprofit Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP) to build its long-awaited cottage court ...

Greater Decatur, GA — A couple doors down from Oak Grove Market, the meat and produce from the market come alive in different ways in various dishes and worldly influences at Kindred. The owners of ...

Clarkston, GA — The city of Clarkston plans to disavow three contracts entered into by former city manager Shawanna Qawiy. The contracts are with Human Resources Dimensions, Inc., Pivot Path, and ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – There is an undeniable sense of high energy in the city of Doraville, located 30 minutes northeast of Atlanta. But in this town of about 10,000 people, something is ...

DeKalb County, GA – State Rep. Vernon Jones is resigning. “Turn the lights off, I have left the plantation,” Jones said. Prior to his resignation, Jones, a Democrat who is part of the DeKalb County ...

Decatur, GA — William H. “Bill” Foege played a major part in helping to eradicate smallpox in 1980, the only infectious disease to have been completely eradicated. The Task Force for Global Health ...