Operations at the DeKalb County Courthouse are expected to return to normal on Friday after a lockdown due to a suspicious package. The courthouse was evacuated by the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office ...

DECATUR COUNTY, Ga. (WALB) - Decatur County residents eligible for jury duty can expect questionnaires in their mailboxes soon. Beginning mid-March, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of ...

After the initial scheduled pickups, final route sweeps will occur from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. every night during the ...

The Morgan County Commission is hosting a blood drive in honor of the late Decatur historian and Morgan County District Judge David Breland on Tuesday at the Morgan County Courthouse.

DECATUR COUNTY, Ga. (WALB) - A man was arrested in Decatur County after attempting to set the courthouse on fire. According to the Bainbridge Public Safety (BPS), a man later identified as 32-year-old ...

DECATUR COUNTY, Ga. — A man is being accused of trying to set a south Georgia courthouse on fire earlier this week. Bainbridge Public Safety told WALB that Eldrick Tyrone Jacobs II, 32, was arrested ...

"Empathy," a statue commemorating John Lewis, was officially unveiled on Saturday in Decatur, Ga. (All photos by Alan Greenblatt/Governing) Franklin Nash had waited decades for this moment. Nash, who ...

Becky Schieber proudly showed her young daughter and son the old restored log courthouse where Abraham Lincoln practiced law in Decatur. "I remember the log courthouse when I was little. And I would ...

In other news from Georgia, a 12-foot statue of the late civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis has been unveiled outside the historic Decatur courthouse in outer Atlanta. The statue replaces a ...

Following the tragic shooting of a 5-year-old by his twin brother, DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston is distributing free gun safes to promote firearm safety and prevent similar incidents.

The 12-foot-tall bronze statue of the civil rights leader was commissioned after Mr. Lewis died in 2020. It stands where a Confederate memorial was erected in 1908. By Amanda Holpuch A statue of John ...