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Athens Rotary Club president Chris Caldwell presented C.R. Chisholm with a check for $500 to benefit The Hands Are Not for Hitting Program which is facilitated by the Athens-Clarke County Solicitor General's ...

Thanks to the Banner-Herald for its Tuesday editorial concerning a public-art policy for Athens, headlined, " Now is the time to talk about public-art policy ." While the newspaper's editorial board is correct ...

Three vehicles were broken into between 9:45 p.m. Monday and 8 a.m. Tuesday while parked in an eastside neighborhood, Athens-Clarke police said.

State Department of Corrections facilities in Athens will not change in any way as a result of state budget cuts, a department spokeswoman said today.

An Athens orthopedist was in stable condition at Grady Memorial Hospital on Friday after his Toyota Prius collided with a tractor-trailer on Georgia Highway 53 north of Braselton.

An Athens orthopedist was in stable condition at Grady Memorial Hospital on Friday after his Toyota Prius collided with a tractor-trailer on Georgia Highway 53 north of Braselton.

An Athens orthopedist was in stable condition at Grady Memorial Hospital on Friday after his Toyota Prius collided with a tractor-trailer on Georgia Highway 53 north of Braselton.

An Athens orthopedist was in stable condition at Grady Memorial Hospital on Friday after his Toyota Prius collided with a tractor-trailer on Georgia Highway 53 north of Braselton.

An Athens orthopedist was in stable condition at Grady Memorial Hospital on Friday after his Toyota Prius collided with a tractor-trailer on Georgia Highway 53 north of Braselton.

An Athens orthopedist was in stable condition at Grady Memorial Hospital on Friday after his Toyota Prius collided with a tractor-trailer on Georgia Highway 53 north of Braselton.

An Athens orthopedist was in stable condition at Grady Memorial Hospital on Friday after his Toyota Prius collided with a tractor-trailer on Georgia Highway 53 north of Braselton.

An Athens teen who drowned in Lake Allatoona on Sunday was a recent Cedar Shoals High School graduate.

An Athens orthopedist was in stable condition at Grady Memorial Hospital on Friday after his Toyota Prius collided with a tractor-trailer on Georgia Highway 53 north of Braselton.

A thief smashed the window of a Jefferson woman's sport-utility vehicle while it was parked at Values Cinema, 3710 Atlanta Highway, between 9:30 and 11 p.m. Sunday and stole two purses, Athens-Clarke police ...

A 21-year-old man was arrested early Sunday morning after he reportedly fired several shots in the parking lot of a Northeast Athens apartment complex, Athens-Clarke police said.

University of Georgia police arrested an Athens man on charges he stole a purse and sunglasses while helping to cater a wedding reception at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia last weekend.

The Madison County Sheriff's Office reported the following incidents : Complaint: On July 7, deputy Douglas Martin was dispatched to the Tiny Town Minit Mart in Carlton, where a 34-year-old Comer man said a ...

In Nashville, Tenn., they studied the red, steel construction that sits where a crane once shuttled barges on the Cumberland River.

An Athens orthopedist was in stable condition at Grady Memorial Hospital on Friday after his Toyota Prius collided with a tractor-trailer on Georgia Highway 53 north of Braselton.

President Bush will present the President's Volunteer Service Award to Sherri Goggin when he arrives in Marietta, GA on Tuesday.

Administrators at two year-colleges are cutting budgets even as they plan for more students this fall.

A University of Georgia police dispatcher resigned Thursday, a day after he was arrested for allegedly causing mayhem at his Athens apartment complex while hopped up on "crunk juice," a cocktail made with ...

Matthew Stafford worked the Elite 11 high school quarterback camp in California this week instead of talking at SEC Media Days about Georgia's chances of winning a national title.

Jay Payne, Cedar Grove Farm, Oglethorpe County: Jay Payne runs Cedar Grove Farm in Oglethorpe County with his wife, Marlene and son Dylan.

A Thomson woman was killed Wednesday afternoon when she wrecked her car on Georgia Highway 98 in Madison County outside of Ila, the Athens post of the Georgia State Patrol said.

Investigators remain unable to say why two seemingly healthy teenage girls died in Athens within two days this week.

Two University of Georgia workers and a former UGA student stole more than $11,000 worth of expensive textbooks from a university storage room, then peddled them at four Athens bookstores, according to UGA ...

Why join? Find a problem with our new site? Tell us! ATHENS, Ga. Authorities have arrested a former University of Georgia employee accused of using the school's computers to hack into the computers of former ...

Representatives from the Athens United Soccer Association met at Faith Presbyterian Church in Watkinsville on June 22 to present the church's Nicaragua mission team with soccer jerseys and T-shirts. In July, ...

Former Arnoldsville Fire Chief Joe Siegert faces felony theft charges for allegedly stealing more than $50,000 in grants awarded to the Arnoldsville Volunteer Fire Department last year to buy firefighting ...

A Catalpa Drive mobile home caught fire Tuesday afternoon, destroying part of it.

Thieves broke into a South Lumpkin Street pharmacy and stole about 2,000 prescription pills, including Lortab, Xanex and Valium, Athens-Clarke police said.

Former Arnoldsville fire chief Joe Siegart was arrested Monday on three felony charges of theft by conversion for allegedly stealing more than $50,000 in grant money awarded to the Arnoldsville Volunteer Fire ...

You might call Athens-Clarke police Sgt. W.R. Smith "Spartacus." At least one shop owner made that comparison Monday, Smith's first day patrolling downtown on the police department's T3, an electric scooter ...

President Bush will present the President's Volunteer Service Award to Sherri Goggin when he arrives in Marietta, GA on Tuesday.

A 24-year-old Athens motorist was killed and a passenger was seriously injured early today in a one-vehicle crash on Lexington Road east of Dunlap Road.

Actions have consequences, and it's a bit disturbing that Athens-Clarke County commissioners apparently don't have a grasp of that self-evident proposition.

The U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission has sued the owners of the Lexington Road Sonic Drive-In, claiming they allowed a former supervisor to subject an employee to "an unceasing barrage of sexual ...

Heads have been turning this past week, as a marked white van slowly cruised Athens neighborhoods and snapped photos of homes with a camera protruding from a small side window in the vehicle.

University of Georgia Vice President for Research David Lee misleads us in his Banner-Herald opinion piece on the proposed National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility, for which an Athens-Clarke County site remains ...

A team of investigators Friday arrested a local business owner on felony piracy charges after finding counterfeit CDs, DVDs and clothing during searches of the man's home and a Hawthorne Avenue business, ...

This week, in an effort to further the community's awareness about the availability, accessibility and fine eatin' of local food, Craig Page, executive director of PLACE has organized a multi-day event called ...

A challenge to the noise ordinance in Athens-Clarke County will move to the Georgia Supreme Court after Superior Court Judge David Sweat dismissed it.

Uniformed officers and members of the Athens-Clarke police Crime Emergency Unit searched a home at Riverfront Apartments on College Avenue early Friday, seizing an undisclosed amount of cocaine and drug ...

A woman suspects two former roommates stole cash, shoes, a rug and a puppy with a total value of $2,260 from her home on Cole Manor while she was out of state, Athens-Clarke police said.

As a former Athens City Council member, serving the Third Ward from 1964-70, I'd like to thank the Banner-Herald for its coverage of the death of former Athens Mayor Julius Bishop.

Complete area primary results Republican voters overwhelmingly endorsed state Sen.

Barrow County voters, angered last fall when commissioners voted to condemn private land to expand the county's Northeast Georgia Regional Airport, exacted their revenge on Tuesday.

Athens Transit is offering free bus rides Wednesday in an effort to attract more riders.

Officers patrolling a southeastern Clarke County apartment complex arrested a man on drug trafficking and other charges Tuesday when they caught him with a large amount of cash and cocaine, Athens-Clarke police ...

Political newcomer Anthony Dove unseated Madison County Commission Chairman Wesley Nash in a landslide victory Tuesday, snatching up more than 70 percent of the vote and beating the three-term incumbent nearly ...

Complete area primary results Funeral home manager Sonny Wilson ousted Clarke County Coroner Bobby Tribble on Tuesday, while Chief Magistrate Patricia Barron kept her seat.

Athens Montessori Primary Summer School students are not worried about the high gas prices.

Scroll down for a list of candidates No incumbent is safe in Tuesday's Republican primary for the Oconee County Board of Commissioners.

An estranged couple whose 12-year-old son was killed while bicycling last month are joining forces to sue the man charged with his death.

Athens-Clarke police arrested an Athens man suspected of snatching a 63-year-old woman's purse as she sat outside an Alps Road bookstore Saturday, police said.

Click here to see candidate's campaign finance disclosures When Jim Keinard ran for Hoschton City Council, he paid a $13 qualifying fee - the only money he spent for the whole race.

Dear Lanie: My dilemma is in my small guest bedroom. I want to put a couple of pieces as nightstands, but I'm not sure I like the idea of the traditional kind.

Oglethorpe County Sheriff Mike Smith has asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to look into whether $39,000 was misappropriated from the Arnoldsville Volunteer Fire Department.

An Athens man was charged Saturday with aggravated assault after he threw a brick at a moving vehicle and struck its 17-year-old passenger in the back of her head, Athens-Clarke police said.

Date of birth: Oct. 31, 1955 Hometown: Athens, Ga. Education: Bachelor's degree in political science and history, University of Georgia, 1976; Law degree, Harvard Law School, 1979.

Thieves removed catalytic converters from two vehicles parked overnight Thursday at a Barnett Shoals Road day care, Athens-Clarke police said.

Athenians looked back Saturday on the life of a man they called a visionary. Julius Bishop, the long-serving Athens mayor who died last week at age 93, saw great things for the city and its assets - its ...

Athens-Clarke police this month cut the hours that people can obtain public records that the department maintains.

Thieves broke into a home on Horseshoe Circle between 6 and 8 p.m. Tuesday while the resident was out of town, Athens-Clarke police said.

An officer was responding to a car theft complaint Thursday night when he saw the stolen Jeep on North Avenue near Berlin Street and gave chase, Athens-Clarke police said.

The incumbent claims the federal government is a "huge ball of twine of socialism" that he wants to unravel strand by strand.

An Athens-Clarke County juvenile court judge this morning denied bond to a 15-year-old boy who is accused of vehicular homicide for allegedly running down a woman on Commerce Road last month and driving away.

Employees at Lo Automotive Sales knew immediately that something was wrong. As they prepared to open the business, one worker turned the crank on a van's ignition and got a loud roar.

People are flocking to Athens in the 21st century, according to population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday.

More Clarke County students soon could get the chance to gain some job experience or earn college credit before they graduate under a partnership between the local school district, Athens Technical College and ...

A man stole medication from a Statesboro woman Tuesday afternoon as she left a pharmacy off Prince Avenue, Athens-Clarke police said.

State Sens. Bill Cowsert and Ralph Hudgens are building big bank accounts to fend off three underfunded challengers in Tuesday's primary and the November general election.

Law enforcement investigators discovered evidence Wednesday in a secluded Oglethorpe County pond believed to be connected to an 6-year-old Madison County murder.

A fire broke out at Cambridge Apartments on Barnett Shoals Road Wednesday afternoon, displacing some residents.

A 105-year-old Milledge Avenue house may become the new home for a University of Georgia fraternity.

Nearly 20 years after their initial performance in Athens, it's safe to say that the days of heavy touring are over for the "y'all-ternative" duo Stewart & Winfield.

Julius Bishop, Athens' longest-serving mayor, died Monday at age 93. Bishop was mayor from 1964 until 1976, the longest consecutive tenure in Athens history.

As far as the membership of Shiloh Baptist Church is concerned, too many good people retire or get sick before anyone has a chance to tell them how much they are appreciated.

Grab your Quidditch Goggles and a juice box. The Unlimited Enthusiasm Expo 2008 is coming to town! The Expo, billed as a "do-it-yourself traveling summer camp circus and crazy rock tour," stops at the 40 Watt ...

Officers arrested a man who allegedly fired a pistol at another man Sunday night at a home on Hollow Ridge Drive, Athens-Clarke police said.

The male driver in a one-vehicle wreck Friday in Madison County, which also claimed the life of a female passenger, died in the hospital Saturday from his injuries, the State Patrol's Athens post said.

As its 4-3 ruling indicates, the Georgia Supreme Court was wrestling with a particularly narrow and vexing question in Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County v. Athens Newspapers LLC, the latest legal ...

Mrs. Alice E. Daniels and Mr. Melvin Daniels of Athens are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jarita L. Lumpkin to Lamar Smith, son of Mr.

Witnesses watching Fourth of July fireworks told police a neighbor shot something else in the air that night - bullets.

Click here to see a list of sheriff's candidates Longtime Barrow County Sheriff Joel Robinson is retiring in January after 20 years as the county's top lawman.

Chief Executive Officer Tim Merritt of Landmark Hospital, a new long-term acute care facility, stands in the lobby of the hospital on Sunset Drive in Athens.

A cameraman shoots on the set of BET's "Somebodies," which is filming a 10-part series in Athens.

Officers with the Northeast Georgia Regional Drug Task Force searched the home of a University of Georgia employee on North Finley Street on Tuesday, arresting the employee and seizing an undisclosed amount of ...

An Athens woman whose car was repossessed last week reported two diamond rings missing on Thursday after she went to claim her personal items from the car, Athens-Clarke police said.

Prosecutors still are waiting for ballistics test results from the state crime lab before they decide whether two police officers were justified when they shot and killed a gang member more than a year ago.

A Danielsville woman died Friday evening in a one-vehicle wreck on Wildcat Bridge Road in Madison County, the State Patrol's Athens post said.

After more than seven years together, it would be understandable for a band to get the itch: to want to see what else is out there.

A smash and grab theft was caught on tape early Sunday morning at a North Avenue convenience store, Athens-Clarke police said.

An Athens-based drive to raise money for victims of a May 12 earthquake that killed an estimated 70,000 people in China has collected nearly $20,000, according to organizers.

Officers with the Northeast Georgia Regional Drug Task Force arrested three people Wednesday when they searched a home on West Broad Street, Athens-Clarke police said.

A 1995 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck valued at $1,000 was stolen from the parking lot of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house on Pulaski Street, Athens-Clarke police said.

Gov. Sonny Perdue has appointed Sen. Bill Cowsert of Athens to serve as an administration floor leader in the Georgia Senate.

The oldest black neighborhood in Athens now will be protected for future generations.

Some Athens-Clarke commissioners are worried that easing outdoor watering restrictions will give residents the false impression that the drought is getting better.

He won the affection of millions of people on "American Idol," but this weekend, Ruben Studdard is giving his heart to one woman.

A pedestrian was killed late Friday night when he ran into the path of a large tow truck on the Athens Perimeter, police said.

A man broke through the back wall of an East Athens clothing store early Wednesday but apparently fled after he got inside and tripped a burglar alarm, Athens-Clarke police said.