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Athens-Clarke detectives raided a house Wednesday and seized guns, ammunition, electronics, Bibles and credit cards that officers said were stolen over the past three months along South Milledge Avenue. Police had obtained warrants to search the house and a vehicle at the location on Pineview Court, a street in a...

Woman calls 911 dispatchers repeatedly, verbally harasses them. On July 16, 911 dispatchers received over 20 calls from the same woman who was verbally harassing them, according to an Athens-Clarke County Police Department report. The woman was cursing at the dispatchers, saying statements such as, “I don’t give a fuck,”...

Morgan County law enforcement used recently-acquired ballistic shields to enter a Greensboro Highway residence after a man had allegedly threatened to kill workers at a nearby chicken house and had fired approximately 10 shots inside his home with a long rifle. Concerned neighbors heard the shots and "yelling" and called 911.

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office reported the following incidents:. MOVING DISPUTE: On July 12, Cpl. Sonyia Wallace-Burchett met with a 57-year-old woman who reported that she moved from California to a home on Friendship Circle in Oconee County, and her movers complained they couldn’t get down her driveway. They left and returned in smaller trucks, but also notified her that the fee had increased from $8,686 to $9,356. She objected because she said large trucks had previously negotiated the driveway. After haggling with the movers, the fee was lowered to $8,700.

Many are unaware, but Athens is filled with landmarks of significant events in Native American history. Lumpkin Street, Baldwin Hall, Abraham Baldwin’s statue on North Campus and the North Oconee River Greenway are a few notable locations from the first years of the University of Georgia’s history as well as the history of the Indigenous people who lived here first.

The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Unit has arrested a suspect in the murder last month of a Covington man who was killed at a hotel in Decatur. Atlanta resident Aushun Lavoris Price, 35, was taken into custody without incident Wednesday on Metropolitan Ave. in Atlanta on a warrant accusing her of Malice Murder.

On Thursday afternoon, residents of Athens convened at the corner of Milledge Avenue and Broad Street in protest of Fuqua Development Company’s plans to remove the trees surrounding The Varsity’s former Athens location. Read the full article here.

As the result of an unspeakable tragedy many years ago, Athens native Linda Shuler Gunter and her husband David found themselves embracing the orphaned children of Haiti. On Sunday morning at Forest Heights Baptist Church, the fruits of their altruism will be on display. At 11 a.m. Sunday, Forest Heights...

COVINGTON, Ga. — An Atlanta-based law firm said today it has filed more than 150 lawsuits claiming medical sterilization company BD Bard has released a chemical linked to cancer into the air surrounding its Covington plant since the late 1960s. However, BD Bard officials said in a statement the company...

“This is just bigger government to me and I don’t like it,” said a frustrated Philipp von Hanstein, chairman of Morgan County Board of Commissioners (BOC) after a heated exchange with Commissioner Ben Riden over proposed changes to the county ordinance regulating recreational vehicles, specifically to give county officials more power to catch citizens suspected of living in RVs.

MONROE, Ga. — City workers found a body at the solid waste transfer station Thursday afternoon. Monroe police Chief R.V. Watts said his department was called shortly before 2:45 p.m. Thursday. Workers at the city facility on Cherry Hill Road found the body among the refuse. Watts declined to say...

The Judicial Workload Assessment Committee of the Judicial Council of Georgia voted on Friday to recommend to the full council that Oconee County not be allowed to split from Clarke County in the Western Judicial Circuit. The Workload Assessment Committee was responding to a Feb. 12 request from Marcus Wiedower...

As the hospitalization and transmission rates for COVID-19 begin to rise in Georgia, Clarke County has seen its case number bump up over the past few weeks. In the last two weeks, Clarke County has reported 74 cases of COVID-19. In the last two weeks, Barrow County had 58 cases, Jackson County had 49 cases, Oconee County had 17 cases reported, Madison County had 10 cases, and Oglethorpe County had 5 cases.

Kimberly Necole Beasley, 52, Deerfield Farms Road, Monticello, was arrested July 17 and charged with drug not in original container, dui and improper lane usage. Herschell Jack Brown Jr, 51, Fairview Road, Covington, was arrested July 14 and charged with possession of firearm or knife during commission and possession of methamphetamine.