Athens News

Police in Clarke County are warning residents about a scam where residents are called up and told they will be arrested if they don't pay.

A crook posing as deputies with the Clarke County Sheriff's Office has called area residents to tell them that warrants were issued for their or family members arrests for failing to report for jury duty, police said.

Bobby Jerome Crook might have very long criminal history that includes arrests and convictions for theft, but it was drugs that most recently got him locked up on Wednesday.

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute will have its third annual art fair from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 22 at Central Presbyterian Church in Athens.

Athens Has Art presents another exhibit at Artini's. "Ways of Wandering," which opened Monday and sees its official reception tonight, features the paintings of Lauren Pumphrey and the photographs of Rena Edgar.

I might meet a lot of celebrities, but I'm not one to interrupt while they're eating or doing something on their down time.

Witnesses said a work truck was traveling east on Prince Avenue at about 10:30 a.m. when a car pulled out in front of it from Nacoochee Avenue and was struck on the passenger side.

Willie Wilson Ward Jr., 40, was arrested Tuesday night following a fight with his wife in their trailer at the Hallmark Estates mobile home park off Spring Valley Road, Athens-Clarke County police said.

Derrick Jermaine Gillespie, 30, of Monty Drive, was arrested early Tuesday after he allegedly assaulted a woman in her home at Rolling Ridge Apartments.

The band, made up of Dan Reynolds, Ben McKee, Wayne Sermon and Daniel "Platz" Platzman, is nominated in multiple categories at the first-ever iHeartRadio Music Awards in May, including the prestigious Best New Artist category.

A convention planning magazine has placed Athens at the top of its list of "The South's Best Foodie Cities For Groups" for the second year in a row.

Athens Technical College adds $46.7 million annually to the northeast Georgia economy and accounts for more than 600 jobs, according to a new study.

Books for Keeps will present its inaugural "Are You Smarter than an Athens Grade-Schooler?" event from 6-8:30 p.m. March 22 at the Holiday Inn in Athens.

Athens-Clarke County police have asked the public's help in locating a burglary suspect to cut short his alleged crime spree.

People who are searching for ancestors involved in American wars can learn more about resources available to them at the Athens-Clarke County Library this weekend.

As an Athenian, I want to shop at the hippie grocery stores. As an Athenian, it's required and expected of me to at least occasionally drop by the farmers market and to frequent Earth Fare and/or Trader Joe's.

An Athens man was sentenced to five years in jail on two counts of theft by taking.

By restoring fixtures from the past, University of Georgia officials hope to better light the paths of students in the future.

"English Oceans," the new album by Athens, Ga.-based Drive-By Truckers, has everything we've come to expect from them: solid, guitar-heavy songs, tales of everyday despair and transcendence and a coterie of shady characters .

Athens-Clarke County police said they are investigating the reported robbery on Monday of more than $1,300 out of a woman's bra at a west Athens motel.