University of Georgia News

University of Georgia Police Department today took out warrants charging a former UGA student in connection with a Clemson University student's allegation he was held captive and beaten in a local fraternity house.

When, more than a decade ago now, smoking bans began to take effect around the world, researchers and public health officials feverishly collected data demonstrating the health benefits: lower levels of respiratory illness were reported among bar workers from Dublin to San Francisco after indoor smoking bans took effect, saliva tests revealed lower ...

Tiffany King describes herself as a "fifth-year senior" at the University of Georgia who isn't in a hurry to finish college.

Henry Harsch was studying to become an engineer when he had an epiphany one day while riding a college elevator.

A cause of death Thursday for the pure white English bulldog was not immediately known and several Atlanta media organizations reported the death.

NABCO, Inc. today announced the sale of a Total Containment Vessel to the University of Georgia Police Department , which becomes the first campus law enforcement agency in the nation with its own capabilities to counter and contain chemical, biological and explosive threats.

A second Clemson University student backs a classmate's story that there was a fight downtown last weekend before the young man was beaten - he says in the basement of a nearby fraternity house.

It could very well be one of those good news/bad news scenarios. University of Georgia scientists have discovered a bug that eats kudzu.

Indoor smoking bans have forced smokers at bars and restaurants onto outdoor patios, but a new University of Georgia study in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that these outdoor smoking areas might be creating a new health hazard.

Researchers recently found an insect in north Georgia that has never before been reported in the Western Hemisphere - and its arrival could be both a blessing and a curse.

Researchers recently found an insect in north Georgia that has never before been reported in the Western Hemisphere - and its arrival could be both a blessing and a curse.

Police say 41-year-old Tracy Faust mounted a taxi sign on the roof of a Cadillac Oct.

When Georgia's college students start their next semester, they'll get hit with a higher tab for fees.

University of Georgia police are looking into a visiting student's claim he was held captive at a fraternity house after getting into a fight in an Athens bar.

The University of Alabama in Huntsville will require all freshmen and sophomores to live on campus beginning next fall, and that big move away from UAH's traditional commuter-college identity is roiling the campus.

Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 5:54 a.m. A brochure from U.S. Rep. Paul Broun that hit constituents' mailboxes late last week implies that Democratic health care reform requires insurance plans to pay for abortions.

One robber was behind bars, but another apparently used the same ruse - pretending to be a taxi driver - to lure another victim into a fake cab over the weekend, Athens-Clarke police said.

The Fuller Center for Housing broke ground on an innovative housing project in the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea on Nov.

University of Georgia students could get hit with another hike in the fees they must pay as state officials get ready to absorb another round of state budget cuts.

Fuels derived from plants regularly get praised as an environmentally friendly way to lessen U.S. dependence on oil imports, but the jury's still out on just how "green" these so-called biofuels really are.