The Atlanta Business Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
DeKalb Medical at Downtown Decatur announced on Wednesday a strategic plan it says will improve patient services.
ajc.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
A manhunt was underway in Decatur Tuesday night after DeKalb County police discovered a teen shot to death.
ajc.com (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Classes for both the DeKalb County School of the Arts and Open Campus High School have been moved for the day after the schools suffered a power outage this morning.
ajc.com (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
DeKalb County police are looking for a hit-and-run driver they hold responsible for the death of 6-year-old girl.
ajc.com (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
An elderly woman died Thursday morning in a house fire in southwest DeKalb County, authorities said.
Georgia Politics Unfiltered (Free subscription) | yesterday
Remember Lithonia Mayor Joyce McKibben? She's the one who claimed that police officers assaulted her after a raucous Lithonia city council meeting in April and appeared in public afterwards sporting a neck brace. Well, next month, voters in the south DeKalb city will have the opportunity to send Joyce McKibben home when they vote in a recall election, September 30th. DeKalb County election...
The Real Estate (Free subscription) | yesterday
The apparently inexorable rise of a skyscraper city on the edge of Fort Greene continues apace, with developer Bruce Ratner's announcement on Wednesday that Forest City Ratner had secured financing for its first residential tower in Brooklyn, the Costas Kondylis-designed, 34-story 80 DeKalb Avenue. The glass building will join the Forte Condo (at Ashland Place and Fulton Street), and the soon-to-be-built...
Curbed (Free subscription) | yesterday
Developer Bruce Ratner's Costas Kondylis-designed, 34-story residential tower at 80 DeKalb Avenue is both underway and has gotten a boatload of financing, much of it tax free. "The glass building will join the Forte Condo (at Ashland Place and Fulton...
ajc.com (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
One suspect was shot by police and a manhunt was under way for a second suspect early Tuesday after a fleeing vehicle rammed a DeKalb County police cruiser.
ajc.com (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
DeKalb County taxpayers owe former Gov. Roy Barnes nearly $32,000 for his legal services so far in connection with a sales tax lawsuit and the incorporation of Dunwoody.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Company also updates overall 2008-2009 maturities CLEVELAND and BROOKLYN, New York, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forest City Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: and FCEB) announced today that it's New York-based subsidiary, Forest City Ratner Companies, has closed on $167 million in construction financing for 80 DeKalb, a 335,000-square-foot residential building on DeKalb Avenue in downtown...
ajc.com (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
DeKalb County police have charged a man with beating his roommate's puppy so badly the dog had to be euthanized.
ajc.com (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
... the complaints about taxes.”The state credit provides income to every local government, from the DeKalb school board ($21.6 million) to Gwinnett County government ($13.3 million) to Smyrna ($758,377). Georgia’s capital city — which has already spent the summer locked in a financial crisis — would lose about $4 million.That would be bitter for a city that’s already seen 519 layoffs and a...
Peach Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
... of Family and Children Services agreed to meet 31 benchmarks for the foster children in Fulton and DeKalb counties. Children’s Rights said DFCS has had mixed results in meeting the benchmarks but repeatedly has failed to meet two of the critical requirements. Officials for the advocacy group said that negotiations with the agency have broken down on those issues.
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | yesterday
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