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5 things to know tonight: DeKalb CEO Lee May will leave office this year

Interim DeKalb County CEO Lee May announces that he’s not running for the CEO position this year during an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in his office Friday. KENT D. JOHNSON/ kdjohnson@ajc.com
Interim DeKalb County CEO Lee May announces that he’s not running for the CEO position this year during an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in his office Friday. KENT D. JOHNSON/ kdjohnson@ajc.com
By AJC

1. DeKalb CEO Lee May will leave office this year. Interim DeKalb CEO Lee May, who has overseen the county government for a tumultuous 2½ years, announced Friday he won't run for election and will leave office when the current term expires at the end of the year. [Read more]

2. Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken to add more metro Atlanta locations. A Perimeter-area location is in the works for 2016, along with at least two more metro locations in the future. Other potential Georgia locations include Augusta, Macon and Savannah. [Read more]

3. Riverdale father stunned to learn son died of overdose in connection to Jonesboro psychiatrist raid.  A GBI autopsy concluded that Michael Robinson Trimble died of "acute alcohol, hydrocodone and alprazalam toxicity," according to a search warrant issued when law enforcement agencies in January raided the office of Jonesboro psychiatrist Narendra Nagareddy. [Read more]