AthCon in downtown Athens celebrates comics, costumes
The Graduate Hotel in Athens was buzzing with familiar faces on Sunday. AthCon brought out the superhero in nearly every visitor to the comic conference. The majority of people in the crowds at the...
View ArticleCentral Presbyterian Church leaders ousted after scheduling secession vote
Members of Athens’ Central Presbyterian church dissatisfied with recent shifts in the denomination’s theology are welcome to join another denomination — but they will have to leave Central...
View ArticleRestaurant health inspections in the Athens area
Click here to view restaurant health inspections in the Athens area.
View ArticleRace tightens: Clinton, Sanders clash on guns, health care
CHARLESTON, S.C. | Turning up the temperature, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tangled repeatedly in Sunday's presidential debate over who's tougher on gun control and Wall Street and who's got a...
View ArticleLady Bulldogs lose 64-50 at Alabama
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. | The trio of Tiaria Griffin, Shacobia Barbee and Pachis Roberts combined for 42 points, but the Georgia Lady Bulldog basketball team (13-5, 1-4) never found scoring depth and fell...
View ArticleAP FACT CHECK: Democratic debaters and the facts
WASHINGTON | Bernie Sanders airbrushed the complexities of trying to overhaul health care all over again and Hillary Clinton offered a selective reading of her rival's record on gun control in the...
View ArticleHigh school roundup: The Jones sisters push Commerce past Lakeview Academy
COMMERCE | The Jones sisters combined for 48 points Saturday as Commerce soundly defeated Lakeview Academy — ranked No. 10 in Class A — 62-50 to take sole possession of first place in Region 8-A.Mya...
View ArticleHundreds gather to clean up Athens, paint mural for MLK Day
About 600 people gathered together at sites around Athens to volunteer on Monday to propel the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. forward.The 30-degree temperatures didn’t stop Phil Caskey from coming...
View ArticleGBI warrant provides new details of deadly Oglethorpe County rampage
A man last summer shot his pregnant ex-girlfriend in his Oglethorpe County home before he led police on a chase in which he threw the woman from his moving pickup truck, a recently filed search warrant...
View ArticleMadison County deputies trying to ID suspect who injured man during theft
Madison County Sheriff’s deputies are attempting to identify a suspect who injured a man who tried to stop the suspect from stealing from his neighbors property.Investigators don’t have anything...
View ArticlePhotos: MLK Day of Service
Hundreds of volunteers gathered at 14 work sites around Athens for the MLK Day of Service. Click here to see photos.
View ArticleAthens re-built Wendy's opens on Prince Avenue
The Wendy’s on Prince Avenue is open.After a few months of construction, which began in November, the newly-built restaurant was up and running over the weekend.The former Wendy’s building burned down...
View ArticleDonald Trump holds 10-point lead in Georgia
ATLANTA | Donald Trump’s lead among voters in Georgia is as strong as anywhere in the country at 10 points ahead of Ted Cruz, according to a survey for Morris News Service released Monday.Trump claims...
View ArticleFormer UGA OC Brian Schottenheimer goes back to NFL as QBs coach
Brian Schottenheimer is resuming his coaching career back in the NFL.The former Georgia offensive coordinator is the Indianapolis Colts’ new quarterbacks coach, the club announced on Monday afternoon....
View ArticleGeorgia Gymdogs vs Stanford
The Georgia Gymdogs opened their home season against Stanford today. See photos here.
View ArticleFalls on beam cost Gym Dogs home opener against Stanford
Through vault and bars, the Gym Dogs were rolling. Then came the beam — and four consecutive falls. “When you see one girl fall, it’s like ‘OK, we don’t want to count a fall, so let’s all stay on...
View ArticleHundreds of marchers protest reported discrimination in downtown Athens bars
An estimated 400 people marched through the streets of downtown Athens on Monday afternoon in a protest against reported discrimination in downtown bars that coincided with the holiday commemorating...
View ArticleAthens-Clarke County slowly recovering from Great Recession
Athens-Clarke County is among the hundreds of counties across the United States where economic recovery from the recession that gripped the United States from 2008 through the middle of 2009 is at...
View ArticleAthens area opposition forming to November education referendum on...
Ten months before it is scheduled to appear on the ballot, evidence of a local movement to oppose a proposed constitutional amendment allowing the state to take over failing schools is beginning to...
View ArticlePhotos: Anti-discrimination march in downtown Athens
Hundreds of people marched through downtown Athens from The Arch to City Hall to rally against discimination in town. Click here to see photos from the march.
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