Madison News

A bus load of educators from across the state stopped at Centennial Arts Academy to get a look a what's working in Georgia schools.

Regions Bank plans to close or consolidate 121 bank branches in 16 states in early 2010, but the cost-cutting move won't affect any offices in the Athens area, a company spokeswoman said this morning.

Tate Tewksbury's broccoli rabe was, he admits, "a shot in the dark." "I've been growing it for eight weeks," he announces with mock authority.

Authorities are investigating a blaze on a charter bus along Interstate 20 as an arson.

An East Point man was seriously burned while trying to torch his charter bus after it broke down on Interstate 20 in Morgan County, a state investigator says.

A charter bus exploded this morning, snarling traffic along Interstate 20 near the U.S. Highway 441 interchange in Morgan County.

Clarke County Sheriff Ira Edwards will host his ninth annual Charity Motorcycle Ride at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct.

Tibi designer Amy Smilovic will speak on the creative process from inspiration to production and current trends in fashion.

The Madison County High School Guidance Office will receive an $8,000 grant Thursday from the Georgia Appalachian Center for Higher Education to promote high school graduation and post-secondary education among its students.

Special to The U-R Georgia's Antebellum Trail, the state's first official tourism trail, presents the second annual Antebellum Trail Pilgrimage April 21-25, 2010.

There are few more scenic drives in Northeast Georgia than Simonton Bridge Road, a not-too-well-traveled roadway that snakes through lush trees and quiet neighborhoods, connecting Athens-Clarke County and Oconee County.

Three Walker County family members, including a father and daughter, were killed Friday in a wreck involving three vehicles in the Villanow community.

Much of Georgia, including nearly all of metro Atlanta, remained under a flood watch Friday as forecasters predicted several more inches of rain on top of the 6 to 12 inches some parts of the state have seen this week.

The film "9" is sort of a hybrid of foreign film and science fiction morality tale.

The Economic Justice Coalition is compiling a Worker Friendly Employer listing on its Web site, www.workerfriendly.org , and is seeking businesses in six Northeast Georgia communities around Athens to apply for inclusion on the list.

Jeannie Johnson participated in her first protest on April 15 as part of the national TEA Party tax day demonstration, decrying what she calls the unconstitutional and irresponsible policies of the Obama administration.

Gov. Sonny Perdue honored tourism professionals from across the state Wednesday at the Governor's Conference on Tourism at Lake Lanier Islands Resort.

U.S. Rep. Paul Broun will host a health care town hall in Oconee County next week and speak Tuesday at health care events arranged by two doctors at Lake Oconee and by the Morgan County Republican Party in Madison.

The pets that belonged to the Oglethorpe County couple mauled to death by a pack of feral dogs two weeks ago will go up for adoption, area shelter officials say.

Chorus Peregrinus, an "artreach" of the Dalton Arts Project, will present a free concert - "Lux Aeterna: In Remembrance of All Souls" - on Sunday, Aug.