Pace Academy cornerback Jack “Tiger” Brown will move to California in the fall after signing a football scholarship with division III’s Claremont McKenna College. The 18-year-old from Decatur made the decision to commit to Claremont McKenna College after a visit to the school in October. “I fell in love,” he said. Brown first heard about [...]
DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis has been using money from different county departments to pay members of his staff. In March, Ellis hired former broadcast journalist Jill Strickland Luse to head the county’s communications department, which also includes the 24-hour government access station DeKalb County Television (DCTV). Strickland Luse’s salary was paid for using [...]
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part series in which The Champion Newspaper’s Andrew Cauthen talked with former DeKalb school board chairman Gene Walker, who was suspended along with five other board members by Gov. Nathan Deal after the school district was placed on accreditation probation. Do you think that there was [...]
A proposed gas pipeline station to be constructed near a Chamblee neighborhood has residents concerned about the possibility of an explosion and other public safety issues. Atlanta Gas Light (AGL) plans to build a gas regulator station near the intersection of Clairmont Road and Tanglewood Circle. The station will also be in the DeKalb-Peachtree Airport’s [...]
A Mattie’s Call has been issued for a missing Dunwoody woman. The Dunwoody Police Department is currently looking for 68-year-old Ann Lange, who suffers from dementia and has been missing since the afternoon of April 2. She was last seen at approximately 12:30 p.m. near her home located on the 4900 block of Leeds Court. [...]
Thousands of ministers establish new churches each year. Heeding God’s call, they seek to preach the gospel and aid the poor. Despite the good intentions and true calling, many new churches fail shortly after opening. About 4,000 new churches come into existence every year. According to some estimates, 80 percent of them close or become [...]
How much lower can one go than to steal a wheelchair accessible van from a single mother of three? That heartless crime has happened twice to a Decatur woman. For the second time in five months, Sophia Powers’ van, donated in part by the Shepherd Center in Atlanta where she receives treatment, has been stolen. [...]
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