Jefferson News

The Georgia Supreme Court this morning narrowly rejected a challenge to Athens-Clarke County's noise ordinance.

The Athens Regional Library system will be forced to buy thousands fewer books this year than usual after the state cut its materials budget by more than half.

Fire destroyed a single-story home at 690 Y.Z. Sailors Road off Georgia Highway 335 east of Jefferson early Tuesday morning, but no one was home and no one was injured.

A burglar or burglars scrawled racial epithets and swastikas inside a house in a quiet Jefferson subdivision early Monday morning, then torched the place, a Jefferson Fire Department leader confirmed this morning.

A man accused in the 2008 shooting death of University of North Carolina student body president Eve Carson now faces a federal kidnapping charge.

The U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday released census estimates that showed the populations in most Athens-area cities and towns increased slightly between July 1, 2007, and July 1, 2008.

Some University of Virginia alumni are upset and others are intrigued that UVa is embarking on a historic preservation project that will alter the iconic appearance of the Lawn.

When a revenue shortfall nearly forced the Athens-Clarke government to cancel Athens' annual July Fourth fireworks show at Bishop Park, smalltown fireworks organizers across the area kind of shook their heads at the aerial display's $10,000 price tag.

Todaya s visit is not so much about our town, but our state. I have long suspected South Carolina does a better job of promoting tourism than Georgia because it names things logically.

A deadly game has taken the life of a Jackson County teenager. It's called the "choking or fainting game." It involves choking oneself and cutting off the blood supply to the brain with the hopes of getting a quick "rush." But it left 16-year-old Michael Nalley of Jefferson dead.

In an age when everyone seems to be clamoring for the newest model of gizmo or gadget, there are still people clinging to good old-fashioned fun.

In the early days of AthFest - back when the main stage was located at the eastern end of Washington Street in the vicinity of the Classic Center - Susan Staley's "Georgia Mountain Stage" concerts provided the perfect closing notes for the three-day music-and-arts festival.

CHARLOTTESVILLE - Pavilion X is going back to its Jeffersonian roots. In accordance with Thomas Jefferson's original plans for the University of Virginia, Facilities Management workers will soon restore a parapet to the facade of the 185-year-old Lawn building.

Pastor Bobby Bloodshaw stands in the Living Waters Christian Fellowship recently.

Some trees were toppled as stormy weather moved across northeast Georgia overnight.

It took more than 20 years of use and several years of organizing, but city and county officials are finally ready to being improving John B. Brooks Road.

Donna McDonald, 37, of 38 White St., was charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly allowing 14-year-old Brittane Nicole Brown to take oxycodone and Xanax while she was in her care, according to court documents released Wednesday.

Troopers with the Georgia State Patrol's Athens post still are investigating what caused a motorcycle to crash Saturday afternoon in Jackson County, killing a Flowery Branch man.

Two men who pleaded guilty to trying to rob the China Cafe in November were sentenced this week to seven years in prison plus three years on probation Tony Bernard Wilson, 19, and Armonti Kelaad Thompson, 18, pleaded guilty to the crime in May.

Linda Lack Brown, of Canon, died Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at her home. Pruitt Funeral Home, Royston, has charge of arrangements.