'Zero tolerance' of underage drinking on St. Simons beach for this year's...
Officials in coastal Georgia’s Glynn County will look at the cost of increasing law-enforcement presence on St. Simons Island on the eve of the annual University of Georgia football game with the...
View ArticleThieves hit Athens business for $28K in vehicles, equipment
Thieves entered a business off Jefferson Road during the weekend and stole more than $28,000 in vehicles and landscaping equipment.“They got some expensive stuff — zero turn mowers and all the...
View Article18-day negotiation yields landmark Iran nuclear accord
VIENNA (AP) — After 18 days of intense and often fractious negotiation, world powers and Iran struck a landmark deal Tuesday to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief...
View ArticleWith UGA-UCLA scheduled, former Bruin QB and coach Rick Neuheisel welcomes...
HOOVER, Ala. | Now that Georgia scheduled a home-and-home series with UCLA starting in 2025, former UCLA quarterback and coach Rick Neuheisel figures his name will be brought up when those games...
View ArticleJay Paterno letter to Mark Richt: 'I often heard my father talk about how...
Jay Paterno — son of former Penn State coach Joe Paterno — sent a handwritten letter in December to Georgia coach Mark Richt looking for a job.He sent similar notes to Ohio State’s Urban Meyer and West...
View ArticleJamie Hood accuses judge of bias in capital murder trial, judge admonishes...
Jamie Hood on Tuesday accused the judge presiding over his capital murder trial of being biased.He criticized Judge H. Patrick Haggard for his decision Monday to not allow Hood to question former...
View ArticleNAACP wants Confederate symbols taken off Georgia property
ATLANTA | The president of the Atlanta NAACP says the group wants Confederate symbols — including a giant carving at Stone Mountain Park — removed from all government-owned property and plans to pursue...
View ArticleTwo SEC East teams coming off 7-6 seasons could be headed in opposite directions
HOOVER, Ala. | Taking the measure of a 7-6 season is in the eye of the beholder when trying to project what lies ahead the following year.Tennessee is a trendy pick to make more noise as it enters year...
View ArticleSpurrier, Mullen weigh in on Confederate flag
HOOVER, Ala. | Four days after the Confederate flag was removed from the statehouse grounds in South Carolina, two SEC coaches in states where the flag stirs particular passions spoke about the...
View ArticleTexas A&M looks to get stronger mentally, physically
HOOVER, Ala. | Coming off an 8-5 season that included losses in five of his team’s last seven regular season games, Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin wanted his team to get tougher mentally and...
View Article10th annual Sprockets Music Video Festival is coming back to 40 Watt
The 10th annual Sprockets Music Video Festival comes back to the 40 Watt July 24-25 to showcase competition music videos from filmmakers around the globe.Presented by Film Athens and held each summer...
View ArticleOconee deputies trying to ID thieves who target large Ford pickups
Oconee County Sheriff’s investigators are attempting to identify two men in a new model Jeep Cherokee that are apparently proficient at breaking into Ford pickups.Two pickups were entered by the...
View ArticleJackson teachers tour Athens plants to learn about robotics
When kids in Jackson County schools ask their teachers how robots work, their teachers are going to give good answers next school year.On Tuesday, nearly three dozen Jackson middle and elementary...
View ArticleOconee will pay $300,000 for Rocky Branch cleanup
The Oconee County government will pay about $300,000 to fix part of its wastewater treatment problem.The Oconee County Commission has scheduled a special meeting Tuesday morning to award a bid for...
View ArticleForum set for possible three-laning of parts of three Athens roads
The possible three-laning of parts of three Athens-Clarke County roadways — two travel lanes and a center turn lane — will be the subject of a drop-in public forum set for 5-7 p.m. July 22 in the...
View ArticleUGA makes bid to get better in study of informatics
University of Georgia administrators plan to hire eight new professors in the relatively new field of informatics.The UGA president’s office sent out an announcement this week of the initiative, which...
View ArticleMissouri may still be under radar, but Tigers say they've 'emerged'
HOOVER, Ala. | Missouri was picked to finish sixth in the Southeastern Conference East in 2013 in the preseason media poll. It won the division.The Tigers were tabbed for fourth in 2014. They made it...
View ArticleYoung patients prominent in med cannabis registry
ATLANTA | Children with seizure disorders have led the initial wave of patients registered for medical marijuana use in Georgia, state officials said Tuesday.State Department of Public Health officials...
View ArticleAlabama tries to put 'scare' in opponents again after two years without...
HOOVER, Ala. | Amid the sea of Crimson and White worn by Alabama fans in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency Wynfrey Hotel Wednesday morning, James Rivers and Jeff Moorer brought the Scarlet and Gray of...
View ArticleYears of grime slow cleaning of downtown Athens sidewalks
It has yet to make a full circuit of downtown Athens, but a sidewalk scrubber placed in service in January now has a new operator, who will be on the job for more than a dozen hours across Saturdays...
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