Athens News

William S. Morris IV has been named CEO of Morris Venture Capital , a new division of Morris Communications Co.

After an intense four-day manhunt for a suspect who gunned down two police officers, a police dispatcher received an unexpected 911 call the afternoon of March 25, 2011.

What's stacked up on tall metal racks inside the Northeast Georgia Food Bank warehouses obviously looks like packaged edibles - boxes of bananas, flats of soda, trays of peanut butter.

Registered nurse Laura Davis, a Clarke Central High School graduate, had filed the lawsuit more than four years ago after beginning work at a Royston dialysis center owned by Dialysis Corporation of America.

Founded by Matthew Rain and Aimee Morris, co-workers at the revered local restaurant The Grit, the now four-piece band Twin Tigers has a unique sound in the Athens music scene.

Two Sayemore Drive residences side by side to one another were burglarized this week.

The Georgia Department of Labor announced this week that metro Athens' unemployment rate declined to 5.6 percent in April, down three-tenths of a percentage point from 5.9 percent in March.

Welcome to PW's 50-Beer Countdown to Philly Beer Week! Every day from now through the Opening Tap ceremonies on May 31, we'll be getting in the mood by spotlighting a different great craft brew that's been poured by one or more Philly Beer Week participating venues.

The Arkansas women's team struggled on the third day of the NCAA's golf championships like much of the field did on a hot, windy afternoon at the University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens, Ga.

In 2005, Marci White sent an email out to the residents of the Boulevard Neighborhood Association asking if anyone was interested in building a park in the neighborhood.

R ichard Hall knows exactly how to locate the birds that call the county landfill home.

"Epic" is playing at Beechwood Cinemas 11 and Carmike 12 in Athens. The premise, courtesy of the film's official website : "Epic" is a 3D CG adventure comedy that reveals a fantastical world unlike any other.

Tennessee women's golfer Erica Popson once again used the 18th hole to alleviate previous trouble Thursday at the NCAA championships at the University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens, Ga.

The Wisconsin Badger women's golf team had their best round of the 72-hold NCAA tournament, shooting an 11-over-par 297 in 3rd round action in Athens, Georgia.

A 25-year-old resident of Campus Ridge Apartments on Appleby Drive reported Wednesday that someone entered his Jeep and stole a GPS unit.

Mothers chased their children around the pool with globs of sunscreen in either hand while many fathers enjoyed a book in the sun.

A committee of Athens-Clarke County commissioners is taking a swing at standardizing the process for designating a neighborhood as historic.

MONEY RECOVERED: On May 17, Deputy Bruce Cronic was dispatched to Traditions Way, Jefferson, where a woman who had collected about $700 in cash and checks during a fundraiser reported the money was gone.

A fight outside a housing complex in Athens on Wednesday led to the arrest of a self-professed juvenile gang member, who admitted to owning marijuana and numerous prescription drugs later seized during the search for a stolen gun, according to Athens-Clarke police.

A group of area artists founded The Athens Institute for Contemporary Art in 2002 as a way to provide an outlet for contemporary art independent of the University of Georgia.