Oglethorpe County News

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.

Two recent letters to the editor , addressing the recent distribution of Bibles by the Gideons at an Oglethorpe County school , demand a response.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Oglethorpe County is a vote away from finally getting an animal control ordinance and an official to enforce the local law.

A 22-year-old University of Georgia student was trapped in the wreckage of his sport utility vehicle for nearly 90 minutes Monday after he ran off U.S. Highway 78 and hit a tree in Eastern Oglethorpe County.

Oglethorpe County road department worker Neil Farnsworth, left, watches Joe McCannon excavate Friday where a section of Walter Sams Road was washed out from the recent heavy rains.

Madison County Code Enforcement Officer Jack Huff kneels outside of a Colbert home where he served an animal complaint recently.

It's difficult for me to believe the front-page headline in the Oct. 14 edition of the Banner-Herald that read, "Passing out of Bibles protested." According to the story, an Oglethorpe County parent complained because his fifth-grade daughter came home from school with a Bible.

Patrons work at computer stations Friday at the Athens-Clarke County Library on Baxter Street.

Let's be honest here. It's not for nothing this part of the country has earned the nickname "buckle of the Bible belt." Wednesday-night church suppers, Sunday school and Bible studies long have been a part of the social and cultural fabric of the South, coloring it as surely and completely as the dust of its red clay soil.

A tractor-trailer truck bumped a pickup and sent it into an oncoming car, triggering a collision that killed three Rayle men Thursday morning between Crawford and Lexington in Oglethorpe County.

A former Oglethorpe County youth minister is under arrest for alleged child molestation.

Three people in a pickup were killed shortly before dawn today in a collision with a tractor-trailer truck and a car on U.S. Highway 78 between Crawford and Lexington in Oglethorpe County.

A former Oglethorpe County youth minister who was acquitted three years ago of charges that he molested a teenage girl was arrested last week, once again on child molestation charges.

FOLK and PLACE will host the second annual Fall Apple Festival from 1 p.m. "until the campfire dies" Saturday at Grove Creek Farm.

A Winder man died Saturday morning after a rattlesnake bit him while he was hunting in Oglethorpe County with his grandson.

A Civil War soldier whose remains were found in a battlefield grave last spring was reburied Saturday by admirers who knew neither his name nor even what side he fought on.