There was no immediate word from the University of Georgia on why, but the dean of the UGA-Georgia Regents University medical campus on Prince Avenue is stepping down: Dr. Barbara Schuster says she will be leaving in May. Shuster has been the dean since 2010.

Economists from the University of Georgia and its Terry College of Business are on the road again today, delivering their annual Coastal Economic Outlook in a luncheon session at the Jekyll Island Convention Center.

The University of Georgia’s annual Spring Career fair starts at noon at the Classic Center.  UGA says job recruiters looking for internships and full-time employment opportunities will be on hand. It’s open to all current UGA students and to University alumni.

University of Georgia President Jere Morehead speaks to the Athens Rotary Club: it’s a noon-hour event at the Downtown Holiday Inn.

The University of Georgia’s Symphony Orchestra is in concert this evening in Athens, 8 o’clock at the Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall.

The Upper Oconee Basin Water Authority meets this morning in Athens: it’s a 9:30 session at Authority offices on Research Road.

Athens-Clarke County Police are reporting a spike in automobile break-ins: police say they are mostly smash-and-grab events that typically happen in parking lots. The list of items mostly common targeted in the cars includes cell phones, laptops, purses, and backpacks.

Athens-Clarke County Police say a bicycle rider was struck by a car on North Avenue: police say the victim, a man from Coweta County, was treated at Athens Regional Medical Center; they say the driver of the car has not been charged. The investigation is ongoing.

Whitney Gibbs is in Elberton today, 8 til 5 at Elbert Memorial Hospital: Griggs is an Affordable Care Act Navigator, helping with enrollments for Obamacare. The open enrollment period ends on February 15.

It is an honor for a Winder woman: Jessica Harston has been named Miss Rodeo USA in a rodeo competition in Oklahoma City.

Police in Oakwood were, at last report, still searching for a suspect in the hit-and-run wreck that injured a homeless man who was riding a bicycle. That suspect has been identified as Joshua Owens. He’s 26 years old, from Gainesville. The victim, believed to be between 25 and 30 years old, is hospitalized in the intensive care unit of Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville.

2015 is an election year in two cities in Hall County: city officials in Clermont and Oakwood have set November dates for City Council elections. There are three Council seats up for grabs on Clermont; four in Oakwood.

DOT crews spent a busy Tuesday in the northeast Georgia mountain counties, monitoring roads in Lumpkin, White, and Dawson counties after reports of ice and snow.

It will mean about 500 jobs for Atlanta: Norfolk Southern is closing an office in Roanoke Virginia and relocating to Georgia.

Investigating in north Fulton County: what looks to be a hand grenade, found in Roswell.

Cobb County Police say a woman apparently killed her three children before taking her own life: the bodies were found in an apartment in Austell. Kisha Holmes was 35 years old; her children were 10 and 4 years old and 9 months old, two boys and a girl. The Cobb County Medical Examiner’s Office says autopsies will determine how they died.

Georgia executed a death row inmate last night at the state prison in Jackson. Warren Lee Hill was put to death for the 1990 murder of a fellow prison inmate. His execution came over the objections of death penalty opponents who say he was mentally ill.

There are now murder charges in Telfair County: 28 year-old Jay Towns also faces an armed robbery charge after the death of the Cobb County couple who drove to McRae after Towns, apparently fraudulently, responded to their ad on Craigslist. 69 year-old Bud Runion and his 66 year-old wife June drove from Cobb County to Telfair County last Thursday, looking to buy a vintage car. Their bodies were found Monday, shortly after Towns surrendered to Telfair County Sheriff’s Office investigators.

More new jobs for Georgia: Tyson Foods, expanding, about 500 jobs in what the company says will be a $110 million investment in Dooly County.

The Obama administration floated a plan Tuesday that for the first time would open up a broad swath of the Atlantic Coast to drilling, even as it moved to restrict drilling indefinitely in environmentally-sensitive areas off Alaska. The proposal envisions auctioning areas located more than 50 miles off Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia to oil companies no earlier than 2021.

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