Martin Luther King Jr. High School seniors got a small glimpse into life after high school on March 28. More than 20 M.L. King High alums came back to their old stomping grounds for the third annual Ready For Tomorrow event. The event allows alumni to share with the seniors the experiences that they went [...]

The Dunwoody Wildcats took home Dunwoody captures fifth consecutive DeKalb golf title e their fifth consecutive DeKalb County Golf Championship title and 11th overall by shooting a boys’ tournament record 301 on April 1 at Mystery Valley Golf Club. Senior Ryan Elmore led five Wildcats, who shot in the 70s, with a one-under-par 71 on [...]

DeKalb County Police arrested and charged a 16-year-old male with murder April 1 for allegedly participating in a drive-by shooting that killed a Columbia High School senior March 28. The suspect’s name has not been released due to the ongoing investigation but detectives said at a news conference that they believe the shooting was gang-related. [...]

Stephenson boys and Dunwoody girls track and field teams both ended streaks April 1 by winning the boys’ and girls’ titles at the 2013 DeKalb County High School Track and Field Championships at Panthersville Stadium. The Dunwoody Lady Wildcats ended Southwest DeKalb’s streak of six consecutive county titles, scoring 94 points to win their first [...]

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 [...]