Athens man in wheelchair fatally struck while crossing road
A 73-year-old Athens man was fatally struck by a car Monday night while crossing Lexington Road in an electric wheelchair.Athens-Clarke police said the collision happened at about 9:10 p.m. on...
View ArticleAthens murder suspect denied bond for second time
For the second time since his arrest in October, a Superior Court judge denied bail for an Athens man accused of murder in a shooting death in the Stonehenge neighborhood of western Athens-Clarke...
View ArticleCourt documents offer more details on Athens hit-and-run
A 19-year-old woman was standing alone in the grass on the side of an eastside Athens roadway two months ago when an alleged drunk driver hit her with his truck and fled the scene, according to...
View ArticleAthens man in wheelchair fatally struck while crossing road
A 73-year-old Athens man was fatally struck by a car Monday night while crossing Lexington Road in an electric wheelchair.Athens-Clarke police said the collision happened about 9:10 p.m. on Lexington...
View ArticleSuspect in Athens police standoff indicted on assault, kidnapping charges
A Clarke County grand jury this week indicted an Athens man who barricaded himself in his home on Saxon Woods Drive during a February standoff with police that began after he allegedly strangled and...
View ArticleAthens teen to be charged as an adult in westside armed robbery
Athens-Clarke police on Thursday arrested a 16-year-old soon after he allegedly pulled a gun on a man at a westside apartment complex and stole his wallet.The suspect was initially detained as a...
View ArticleTerrier believed dognapped during Winterville burglary
A Winterville couple believes whoever broke into their home on Beaverdam Road on Wednesday also stole Jack, a 10-year-old Jack Russell terrier.The home was burglarized between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., when...
View ArticleUGA student stabbed, in intensive care
A simmering dispute between two University of Georgia students resulted in bloodshed Thursday night when one stabbed the other at the apartment complex where they live.Athens-Clarke police said...
View ArticleCyber-cops cast wide net, snare Athens man and nearly 100 others engaged in...
An Athens man was recently arrested in the largest statewide child pornography investigation ever in Georgia.Authorities expect to arrest another Athens area resident sometime this week.They are just...
View ArticleTrio of suspects plead not guilty in home-invasion murder of elderly Athens man
A teen and two adults recently pleaded not guilty to murder charges in connection with the November shooting death of an elderly Athens man during a burglary of his home on Jefferson River Road.The...
View ArticleAthens club sues rapper Gucci Mane for no-show
A downtown Athens nightclub last week filed suit against rapper Gucci Mane for being a no-show at a scheduled Halloween night performance.The breach-of-contact lawsuit, which seeks more than $70,000...
View ArticleAthens felon arrested after driving drunk with shredded tire
A convicted Athens felon was found in possession of a handgun following his arrest early Tuesday for driving a pickup truck with a shredded tire while drunk, Athens-Clarke police said.An officer was...
View ArticleFormer Athens police forensics tech examined pressure-cooker bombs in...
Authorities investigating the Boston Marathon bombing will be closely examining fragments of the detonated devices for “signatures” pointing to any terror group possibly responsible, according to a...
View ArticleAthens church fire appears to have been accidental
Officials have all but ruled out foul play as the cause of the fire that destroyed the Oconee Street United Methodist Church on Monday night.“Right now, there is nothing that leads us to believe it was...
View ArticleAthens woman's 'barking' sparks fracas with teen
A pair of Athens women got into a fight with a teenager outside the Kroger grocery store on College Station Road on Tuesday afternoon, after the teen made a comment about one of the women barking like...
View ArticleMan enters children's bedroom in eastside Athens burglary
Athens-Clarke police on Thursday were investigating an early morning burglary of a home on the east side in which the intruder entered the bedroom of two young girls.The burglar apparently had some...
View ArticleStabbed UGA student: 'Lucky to be alive'
A 21-year-old University of Georgia student who was stabbed and critically injured by another student this month was recently released from the hospital and is recovering at his home in southeast...
View ArticleAthens man charged with trying to molest child during eastside burglary
An Athens criminal on probation was arrested late Thursday night with attempting to molest an 11-year-old girl during a break-in at the child’s eastside home earlier that day, Athens-Clarke police...
View ArticleAthens residents fed up with crime, looking out for neighbors
Rick Alpaugh’s home recently was broken into, as were some others in the Kingswood subdivision in western Athens-Clarke County.When he noticed a strange car with two people in a neighbor’s driveway...
View ArticleMan wanted for assaulting Athens officer after eastside robbery
A reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of a man who assaulted an Athens-Clarke police officer following a robbery Thursday at an eastside convenience store.Rickie Korey “Woo”...
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