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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.

Police in Athens said a 20-year-old woman was shot to death at a shopping center near the University of Georgia campus, and the man suspected of shooting her was found dead in Oglethorpe County.

Watkinsville Station Fire Chief Mike Link demonstrates the department's bucket truck for Colham Ferry Elementary School Principal Jackie Carson and Assistant Principal Chuck Cunningham during the school's annual fire safety program for students in kindergarten through third grade.

The Athens-Clarke Commission has approved a new downtown parking deck as part of a project that also will include retail and office space.

The Athens-Clarke Commission gave the final go-ahead to a new downtown parking deck Tuesday night over the objections of some residents who said it will be too big and is not needed.

Terrie Fermier, center, winner of a trip to Cancun, Mexico, in a contest sponsored by Taqueria La Parrilla restaurant, shows off a mock boarding pass with Adrian Haro, left, manager of the Hog Mountain Road location where Fermier entered the contest, and Alonso Haro, manager of the Athens restaurant.

In December, the Athens Chamber Singers will commemorate their 30th anniversary with a special three-day Christmas feast and celebration.