Dekalb County News

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.

NATALIE NICOLE DUNN, 32, of Ellenwood, Georgia, a former DeKalb County State Court Probation Officer, pleaded guilty late yesterday to conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right in a criminal charge-fixing scheme.

Georgia Supreme Court Justice Carol W. Hunstein has been elected unanimously as the court's new chief justice, effective July 1. She will succeed Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, who is stepping down June 30.

"As critical as it is, it could cost your job." That's how a retired metro Atlanta area elementary school principal describes the emphasis put on end of the year CRCT tests.

State education officials are investigating whether students, teachers or someone else changed answers on more than 100 standardized tests at four different Georgia elementary schools.

Former DeKalb County CEO Vernon Jones will get off with a warning after failing to properly disclose that his campaign paid for advertisements and other materials supporting his U.S. Senate bid last year.