Athens News

SHOPLIFTING: On Feb. 26, a deputy was dispatched at 5:54 p.m. to Kohl's on Epps Bridge Parkway after a loss prevention officer detained two people for trying to leave the store with $178 in merchandise.

Warrants charging a 30-year-old teacher at South Jackson Elementary School with two counts of battery have been issued by the Jackson County Sheriff's Department, a department official said Thursday.

Georgia could get hundreds of new science teachers in the next four years, thanks to a grant from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation to Piedmont College and four other Georgia colleges.

Roderick Jerel Howard, 25, of Howard Drive, was arrested early Thursday morning after he assaulted the mother of his infant daughter, Athens-Clarke County police said.

The University of Georgia Ballet Ensemble will present a one-night performance March 22 at 8 p.m. to commemorate its 20th anniversary on campus.

University of Georgia alumni, faculty, staff and students, as well as members of the Athens community, will gather on the university campus the morning of March 22 for the 7th annual Dawg Trot 5K Run/Walk , sponsored by the UGA Alumni Association.

Many in Athens are beginning their day with the temperature in the high 30s and forecaster are calling for rain and possibly sleet as it gets later in the day.

Athens-Clarke County police are searching for a man they said stole a Jaws of Life that fell off a fire truck as it responded to an emergency call Wednesday afternoon.

A discussion series about what the Bible has to say about homosexuality and same-sex marriage led by retired Presbyterian minister Jim Bowden and Lead Pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church Mark Harper will be held in March at Covenant Presbyterian in Athens.

The Athens-Clarke County library was named a finalist this week for one of the country's top prizes for museums and libraries.

Authorities on Wednesday made a third arrest in connection with a daytime burglary of a home last month in east Athens.

Georgia United Credit Union's University of Georgia Branch has partnered with Little Free Library to offer children in the area more books.

The first installment is this series saw every main character die, which was kind of the film's highlight.

Clearly the comedy of James Gregory isn't designed to appease Athens' greener citizens, specially not with jokes like, "If you want me to be concerned about endangered species, you need to convince me that we're about out of chicken."

Even though Kate DiCamillo's visit was a virtual one via Skype, that didn't matter much of the about 80 second-graders who got to talk with DiCamillo and even ask her questions.

Rose of Athens Theatre offers its second and final weekend run of E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web" on Friday and Saturday nights only.

In the two years since Marquee first introduced Dwain Segar, aka DJ Segar, Athens' only king of smooth jazz has gone global, he says.

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Cynthia Tucker and Georgetown University lecturer and adventurer Francis Slakey will be guests on upcoming episodes of "Unscripted with Alan Flurry," which will begin airing on the University of Georgia's WUGA-TV Monday, March 10 at 6:30 p.m. Tucker served as the editorial page editor of the Atlanta-Journal ... (more)

The Drive-By Truckers will perform on "Conan" on TBS on Thursday this week. From left: Brad Morgan, Patterson Hood, Jay Gonzalez and Mike Cooley.

An Athens man is in the Athens-Clarke County jail with a long list of charges, including four counts of cruelty to children, stemming from an early morning domestic incident Wednesday March 5. Duran Jabbar Elder, 30, of Howell Way in Athens, has been charged with aggravated assault, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, burglary, terroristic ... (more)