Forest Park News

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.

A The Clorox Co.'s production plant in Forest Park will change the way it makes household bleach "some time next year," plant manager Kelvin Hill said Monday, as part of a company-wide effort to make bleach manufacturing safer.

Police are looking for a man believed to be behind a string of bank robberies in Clayton County.

A dozen residents of a Forest Park apartment complex were forced from their homes Wednesday by a predawn fire.

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It was a routine traffic stop that led Clayton County police to a stash house and a lot of drugs.

A traffic stop Saturday afternoon led police to a Forest Park "stash house" where four men were storing 11 kilos of cocaine and five pounds of methamphetamine, Clayton County police said.

The recent passing of Billy T. Smith in August, a lifelong resident of Forest Park, brings to a close another important chapter in the history of that city.

A Clayton County cab driver is in jail charged with molesting a 10-year-old girl while driving her to school.

Guards at the Atlanta federal prison used to wait in line for Emil Schoeman to open the doors of his McDonald's restaurant.

Last week's photo showed the front of a movie car, a 1958 Plymouth Fury known to novel and movie fans as Christine.

N.W. Atlanta-- For one day, in Miss Corliss Love's fifth grade social studies class, it was okay to watch television and dream.

He was on the run for almost two years, but now one of Clayton County's most wanted suspects is behind bars.

One of Clayton County's most wanted is in jail after almost two years on the run.

Authorities say they don't know why a 21-year-old shoplifting suspect died just hours after he was captured by Forest Park police.

Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009 2:41 p.m. Local authorities are warning the public not to honor certain business checks after out-of-town counterfeiters wrote more than $7,000 in bad checks in Richmond County.

Clayton County's new school superintendent learned he's not in California any more Saturday night when he got welcomed to Georgia with a traffic ticket.

Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009 2:41 p.m. Local authorities are warning the public not to honor certain business checks after out-of-town counterfeiters wrote more than $7,000 in bad checks in Richmond County.

An early morning fire raced through an apartment complex in Forest Park, and firefighters say three people have been hospitalized.

Every day departing jets from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport fly so low over downtown College Park that it's easy to believe you could reach out and actually touch the planes.