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SWAT standoff in Decatur
SWAT officers were called to a house in Decatur.

I-285 motorist arrested for rolling meth lab
Doraville police pulled over Thomas Christian Johns, 30, on I-285 Wednesday, and a K-9 officer detected what police describe as a rolling meth lab. These pictures detail what officers found in the vehicle. Johns is being held in the Doraville jail on charges of trafficking, manufacturing and distributing meth.

DeKalb school system offices searched
Photos: Investigators search offices of the DeKalb County school system -- the Sam A. Moss Service Center -- as part of an ongoing investigation.

Classes resume at Emory
Photos: Emory University students are back on campus for the first day of classes on Thursday, Aug. 27

Health care fair attracts crowd
Hundreds attended the Healing and Dentistry from the Heart fair Saturday in Stone Mountain where more than 30 doctors and dentists offered free medical care.

Child hit by car had just arrived from Nepal
Photos: Six-year-old Sukmaya Mager was hit and killed in Clarkston by SUV driver Gregory Armwood as she and her mother, recently arrived from Nepal, exited a MARTA bus.

Overflow crowd for health care forum
Hundreds of people turned out to listen to U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson explain his view of the health care bill inside the Cole Auditorium at Georgia Perimeter College in Clarkston Monday night.

Tree crashes on Decatur house
Strong thunderstorms that swept through metro Atlanta Tuesday night brought down trees on power lines in DeKalb County and this tree on a house in the 3600 block of Aldea Drive in Decatur.

Volunteer patrols watch out for crime
Charlotte Booth and Wanda Moore patrol the parking lot of the Northeast Baptist Church on Thursday, July 23, 2009. They are two members of DeKalb County's Volunteers in Patrol.

Neglected Cross Keys High School
The planned renovation of Cross Keys High School is meant to erase decades of decline at the DeKalb County campus,

Apartments burn in DeKalb
DeKalb Fire Rescue units responded to an apartment fire at 1281 Brockett Road on Tuesday afternoon. Four units of the two-story structure were ablaze when firetrucks arrived, with flames coming through the roof.

Moving violation
Dekalb County Police Officer Tammy Sandifer performs speed enforcement crackdown along I-20 westbound as part of the 100 Days of Summer Heat - Speed Crackdown Campaign with the DeKalb County Police Department's "Move-Over DeKalb" enforcement detail.

Video shows ex-deputy wanted for murder took bus West
Derrick Yancey, accused of killing his wife and a day laborer last year, is still on the lam. he took a greyhound bus west on April 4.

Emotions run high over bullying report
Photos of press conference on DeKalb County bullying case involving student Jaheem Herrera.

Emory's 164th commencement
Emory's 164th commencement was held Monday, May 11, 2009.

Service honors fallen officers
Service honors fallen officers in DeKalb County.

Prayer vigil eases pain of boy's death
A crowd of about 60 gathered Tuesday night at the DeKalb home of Jaheem Herrera to remember the fifth-grader who committed suicide last week. The 11-year-old boy hanged himself at his home after — according to his family — relentless bullying at Dunaire Elementary School.

Jaheem Herrera's family mourns
Jaheem Herrera, 11, hanged himself after coming home from Dunaire Elementary School .

MARTA bus overturns on interstate ramp
A MARTA bus overturned.

Bishop Earl Paulk Jr.'s funeral
Photos of Bishop Earl Paulk Jr.'s funeral

Dunwoody swears in police force
More than 200 people crammed into an outdoor tent at the Dunwoody Farmhouse to see 40 officers take their oaths. The Dunwoody Police Department, which includes eight civilians, was set to begin patrolling at midnight in Georgia's newest city.

MARTA bus crash
A MARTA bus and a car collided, resulting in minor injuries.

Painting a mural in Chamblee
Amir Totem of Atlanta was commissioned by the City of Chamblee to complete the mural painting beneath the overpass along Chamblee Dunwoody Road

Tibet Week opens at Emory
Tibet Week begins at Emory.

Stone Mountain museum auction
Photos of the auction at the Antique Car and Treasure Museum in Stone Mountain Park

Students hope video helps Elaine Clark center
Chamblee Middle School eighth-grade students in a program called "Teens for Tots" saw that the Elaine Clark Center, a special needs school for young children, needs a lot of improvements. So they created a video the intend to send to Oprah, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Rosie O'Donnell, Ellen DeGeneres, CNN, Home Depot, and even President Obama, asking for their help..

Columbia High School lockdown
Columbia High School in DeKalb County was under lockdown Wednesday.

Tracing the Woods family history
Photos: Former Lithonia mayor Marcia Glenn Hunter gathers with her sibling to look over family albums. They have traced their ancestry back to Sierra Leone and a captive who was sold into slavery in Newtown County, Georgia. Mother Maggie Woods was the first black City Council member in Lithonia.

Circus of the Senses
Circus of the Senses entertains children with visual and other impairments.

2 killed in DeKalb apartment fire
2 killed in DeKalb apartment fire.

Boy, 7, killed in school crosswalk
Photos: Kameron Dunmore, 7, was hit by a SUV in the crosswalk at Princeton Elementary School in DeKalb County.

Arabia Mountain School
Arabia Mountain School in Lithonia.

Fire at DeKalb church
DeKalb firefighters responded to a fire at Decatur Baptist Church early Thursday morning.

4 injured in DeKalb home fire
4 injured in DeKalb home fire.

Decatur's Trackside Tavern a landmark
Photos of Trackside Tavern, which was destroyed by fire Jan. 20.