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Athens-Clarke police arrested an Ohio man Saturday night for randomly punching people at the corner of College Avenue and East Broad Street after he had been kicked out of Starbucks, according to an Athens-Clarke police report.

In photos at lower left, Willie Merrill, framed by colorful cylinders, sweeps up some plastic jugs that fell off a packed bale Thursday at the Materials Recycling Facility.

Winston, an 11-month-old Bulldog ATHENS, Ga. a ' Responsible bulldog owners have to wash their dog's face folds daily, wipe their bottoms and always be on the lookout for the skin and eye irritations that the breed is prone to.

Candidates for mayor of two Franklin County towns who both lost by one vote are disputing the election results in court.

When most of us think of mariachi music, images of Mexican restaurants, parties and wedding receptions immediately come to mind.

A 37-year-old Athens man got punched by one of the men in a twosome behind his group Tuesday at Lane Creek Golf Course, according to the Oconee County Sheriff's Office.

Faced with likely tax hikes and possible layoffs next year, Athens-Clarke officials are shuffling money around to avoid making a projected $1.4 million budget shortfall even larger.

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The man who shot and killed his former girlfriend then committed suicide Thursday nearly killed a third person as he apparently tried to escape from police.

It might not be stretching things too much to suggest that Doug McKillip's law office could be one of the most crowded places on the planet on Nov.

In the photo at lower left, construction crews work on a new bridge at the East Athens Community Park on Monday.

In photos at lower left, Brandon Chambers, left, a senior at Cedar Shoals High School, and Scott Sparks, vice president of AdClub at the University of Georgia, pick up trash Sunday along the Oconee River as part of the Rivers Alive river and stream cleanup Sunday.

University of Georgia and Athens-Clarke police officers will set up traffic safety checkpoints today, after Georgia's homecoming football game against Tennessee Tech at Sanford Stadium, UGA police said.

Last year, Peach State Speedway was in danger of closing its doors, just as dozens of other tracks in the Southeast have done this decade.

A homeless man smashed a woman's head with a bat Wednesday night because he didn't like a prank the woman and her husband played as they smoked crack in the couple's home in the 500 block of Vine Street, Athens-Clarke police said.

The man who shot and killed his former girlfriend then committed suicide Thursday nearly killed a third person as he apparently tried to escape from police.

The hunt is over for a man who police suspect shot and killed a woman this afternoon in a shopping center parking lot off South Milledge Avenue.

A 27-year-old man who stayed at the Salvation Army's homeless shelter on Hawthorne Avenue snatched a $20 bill from a cashier at the charity's thrift shop next to the shelter, Athens-Clarke police said.

A man murdered his former girlfriend at an Athens shopping center Thursday afternoon then shot and killed himself some 30 miles away in Oglethorpe County when the sheriff tried to stop the car he was in, Athens-Clarke police said.

Athens-Clarke police are investigating a murder-suicide that started with a woman's body found in a parked car about a mile from the University of Georgia campus.