Three Jonesboro teens were arrested Monday for allegedly burglarizing 20 Clayton County homes and stealing six cars, police said. Clayton County police officers performing routine patrols Monday afternoon identified a black SUV that had been reported stolen near the Drakes Landing subdivision off Jodeco Road, according to police reports.

A Clayton County tribunal voted Monday that a middle school teacher accused of inappropriate behavior with special needs students should be fired, Channel 2 Action News reported. The School Board will make the final decision on the employment of Adamson Middle School teacher David Vollmer, who appeared before the three-person panel last week.

A family is complaining that their 11-year-old son was paddled excessively as punishment for fighting at his private school, according to Channel 2 Action News. "I don't know how to explain it. So brutal," Desmond Omigie told Channel 2 about being spanked by a leader at Hope Christian Academy in Jonesboro.

More cities that charged drivers for traffic warnings may become targets of a class action lawsuit spurred by the city of Morrow collecting more than $1 million in bogus fees, according to a report by Channel 2 Action News. Earlier this year Judge Ronald Freeman, who charged motorists the fees, said, "It's my policy to always reduce these to warnings, let [drivers] pay the fines as court costs.

Clayton County police said Thursday that the would-be sniper seen aiming a rifle at a school bus earlier this week may be a local high school student. "A couple of neighbors indicated they may have known who [the sniper] was," Clayton Police Maj. Johnny Robinson told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Clayton police canvassed a Hampton neighborhood Wednesday afternoon in search of a man who allegedly used a rifle to target a school bus two days earlier. More than 50 officers were sent door-to-door in search of the man who a witness said aimed a rifle at a bus as children boarded.

Emily Lam of SKA Academy in Duluth and Raquel Charles of Sequoyah High School in Cherokee County have received National PTA Reflections Outstanding Interpretation awards. Emily won for visual arts and Raquel won for dance choreography. Winners are chosen in six arts categories along with 188 awards of excellence and merit.

A veteran Clayton County middle school teacher on Tuesday denied allegations he abused his special-needs students, saying the paraprofessional who leveled the charges made them out of personal animus. Testifying before a three-person tribunal that will help decide his fate, Adamson Middle School teacher David Vollmer said the accusations that he groped and tickled a male student, destroyed another's artwork and followed a female student into the bathroom were either false or misrepresented.

School buses in parts of south Clayton County are traveling under police escort this week after a man was seen pointing a rifle at one early Monday morning. As a safety precaution, outdoor activities at three schools -- Kemp Elementary, Kemp Primary and Lovejoy High School -- also have been temporarily moved indoors as authorities search for the suspect, said Douglas Hendrix, school system spokesman.

In the end, bringing in revenue trumped preserving history. The Jonesboro City Council cleared the way this week for a funeral home to be built on about 11 acres on Ga. 54 just off Tara Boulevard after a contentious fight to preserve what is believed to be the last piece of unspoiled Civil War battleground in the county.

Clayton County police are looking for a man who witnesses said pointed a rifle at a school bus near Hampton Monday morning. The incident happened about 7 a.m. off Paladin Drive, Clayton County police spokesman Phong Nguyen said. Nguyen said the witness told officers that he saw a man "crouched down in the backyard of a residence and pointing what appeared to be a rifle at a passing school bus.

A veteran Clayton County middle school teacher is fighting to keep his job after being accused of abusive treatment and  inappropriate behavior involving special needs students. Adamson Middle School teacher David Vollmer appeared before an employment hearing panel Monday as five witnesses -- including the school's principal, a personnel review officer and a paraprofessional who lodged allegations against Vollmer -- recounted incidents of Vollmer allegedly groping and tickling a male student's stomach, thighs and groin; destroying one student's artwork; bending another student's fingers; and following a female student into the bathroom.

Foreclosure notices in metro Atlanta during May held steady, avoiding both the longed-for decline and a feared second wave of rising numbers. “Things are very consistent right now,” said Barry Bramlett, the CEO of Equity Depot, the Kennesaw-based real estate analysis firm that gathers the data.

Get ready for a sloshy commute on Monday. More than an inch of rain fell across metro Atlanta Sunday, with another half and inch possible tonight through Monday, according to Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Brad Nitz. "Showers will be more scattered on Monday, but won’t clear out until Tuesday," he said.

Tonight’s Jonesboro City Council meeting is shaping up to be the modern-day Battle of Jonesboro. On one side: a company eager to open a funeral home on what is believed to be the last of Clayton County’s unspoiled Civil War battlegrounds. The opponents: a prominent Clayton County family and the historical society.

In the latest instance of two handguns showing up at security checkpoints on the same day at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, a pair of travelers Friday found themselves diverted to Clayton County Jail, authorities said. It’s not an entirely uncommon event, said Jonathan Allen, a Transportation Security Administration spokesman.

Police on Friday issued a warning about two incidents in which men tried to lure girls into their vehicles  in Forest Park. A press release from the Forest Park Police Department said both incidents occurred Wednesday. The first incident occurred on Glade Road.

A third suspect in the shooting death of a 21-year-old man attending a birthday party in Clayton County is now in custody, the U.S. Marshals Service said Thursday. John Goodrum was sitting on the front porch of a home John Arnold Circle on April 15 when he was struck by a bullet, according to police.

The Clayton County school board has decided to postpone any decision on budget cuts after learning this week that some teachers in the district’s Career Technical and Agricultural Education program are not getting their contracts renewed for next year.

Firefighters are crediting the swift action of neighbors after a man and his daughter were pulled from a burning home early Saturday near Riverdale in Clayton County. The man and woman, who were not identified, were in critical condition at Grady Memorial Hospital.

A Clayton County jury found Jonathan Bun guilty of murder Friday in the killing of a sheriff's deputy last summer. Of 18 charges, the jury found Bun guilty of 14 counts including malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault of a peace officer, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.

Approximately 4,000 pounds of marijuana with a street value of $4 million was found in a tractor-trailer traveling in Clayton County on Friday, police said. The Georgia State Patrol got an anonymous tip about the truck and alerted Clayton County police after tracking it to the area, Officer Chandi Ashmore told the AJC.

Ten-year-old Sydney Fialkow is the winner of the National Uncle Ben’s Beginner’s contest! The fifth grader at the Epstein School in Atlanta won $20,000 and a $50,000 cafeteria makeover for her school. She was named the grand prize winner of the cooking and nutrition contest after more than 700 videos submissions and 45,000 votes.

The Clayton teen on trial for fatally shooting a sheriff’s deputy last year took the stand Thursday afternoon and contradicted his own sworn statements to investigators. “Eighty-five percent of what I told them was a lie,” Jonathan Bun said in response to his attorney's questions.

An East Point police officer was free on bond Thursday night following his arrest for allegedly punching his ex-girlfriend in the face in front of their 8-year-old son. Marcellus Antonio Wilcher, 36, of Atlanta, was arrested Wednesday night by Clayton County police after he drove an unmarked police car to the woman's home to pick up the boy, according to police.