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An Atlanta woman was arrested Saturday after police said she abandoned her 3-year-old daughter at a bus stop on Bouldercrest Drive.

A DeKalb County man who said he tried to revive a woman after she committed suicide in their apartment was in jail Saturday facing drug trafficking charges.

Local tax assessors this spring will be allowed to raise property values for the first time in four years unless state lawmakers intervene.

An Atlanta man wrecked his ex-girlfriend's Lithonia house before setting it on fire, police said. Wayman Dewayne Mitchell, 46, was arrested Wednesday and charged with arson and making terroristic threats, DeKalb County Jail records showed.

A 22-year-old man accused of  stabbing to death his mother, brother and sister almost a year ago tried to plead guilty Friday over the protests of the judge and his lawyer before an official plea of not guilty was entered in his case.

A Loganville man was sentenced to two on work release and another three years on probation for causing a 15-passenger commuter van to overturn and crash, killing three Southern Co.

Clarkston has promoted a captain in its police department to serve as its new chief. Christine Hudson was appointed to the new role Thursday, after serving as interim chief during a search to replace Tony Scipio, who retired in early January.

A ceremony held Sunday at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, in which Bishop Eddie Long was wrapped in a sacred Torah scroll and carried upon a throne, has the Internet abuzz and Jewish religious leaders offended and questioning its appropriateness.

DeKalb County police are looking for the gunman who shot at two men outside a Lawrenceville Highway Waffle House early Friday.

A DeKalb County police officer has been reprimanded for using excessive force and being unprofessional when arresting a man in October 2010, internal department documents show.

The challenge for DeKalb County Commissioners to cut spending this year crystallized Tuesday, when most county departments pleaded for more money instead of saying what they could do with less.

Chamblee police are seeking the public’s help finding possible additional victims of a man charged with molesting four youths.

Efforts to redraw political lines for both the DeKalb County Commission and county school board districts are on a fast track, despite limited chances for the public to see just how the county will be carved up.

A 23-year-old Sandy Springs man arrested and charged with snatching a $1,800 pooch from a Dunwoody pet shop is the same "Romyo" who denied anything to do with the theft, police said Wednesday.

DeKalb County Commissioners are gearing up for two daylong meetings designed to help find ways to cut its 2012 budget before a vote by month’s end.

A state House committee charged with recommending whether to allow a referendum for a city of Brookhaven heard Tuesday from a fairly divided group of residents on the issue.

The mystery of the Maltese puppy may have been solved Tuesday: A 23-year-old Sandy Springs man has been arrested and charged with snatching the $1,800 pooch from a Dunwoody pet shop, police said.

DeKalb County residents will meet Tuesday night to discuss what they say is a growing coyote problem in neighborhoods near Druid Hills and Decatur.

Over the past decade, the school system in DeKalb County has spent over half a million dollars researching ways to save money.

The new superintendent in DeKalb County has unveiled her five-year plan for improving the school system.