Friday, April 24th

*It is Twilight weekend in Athens: activities surrounding the annual Twilight Criterium bicycle races begin tonight and culminate with tomorrow night’s high speed competition. Some of the world’s top bicycle racers will speed through and around downtown Athens. The races and the surrounding festivities will make for numerous street closures.

*The University of Georgia’s Student Judiciary Committee convenes today to take up the case of UGA student Adam Veale: the 20 year-old political science major from Augusta was arrested during a civil disobedience protest at the state Capitol last month. He spent a night in jail and now faces at least the possibility of University sanctions.

A northeast Georgia teenager is going to West Point:  Sutton Norris is a senior at Prince Avenue Christian School.  Norris, who received his nomination from 10^th District Congressman Jody Hice, is one of 1,250 newly-appointed cadets to emerge from a field of 15,000 applicants nationwide.  Norris will join John Mote of Loganville, Liam Fabrass of Georgia Military College, and Talitha Peace of Morgan County High School as members of the U.S. Military Academy Class of 2019.

*It happens once a year, and today is the day at UGA: the only surviving copy of the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States of America will be displayed. It’s in the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library at the University of Georgia.

The University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business annual awards banquet is set for Saturday in Atlanta, underway at 7 tomorrow night at the Intercontinental Hotel in Buckhead.

*Tonight is prom night for Cedar Shoals High School, taking place at the State Botanical Garden on South Milledge Avenue in Athens.

The Clarke County School District hosts its third annual Arts Day tomorrow: it starts at 9:30 and lasts til 3:30 in the auditorium at Cedar Shoals High School.

The Madison County 4-H is coordinating a series of rabies clinics, 14 of them, to be held Saturday at various locations in Danielsville and elsewhere in Madison County.

*Police have released the name of the teenager struck and killed by a train at a rail crossing in Jefferson: Juan Arellano was 17 years old. Jefferson Police say he was a high school student walking to class at the time of the deadly accident. There are reports that he was wearing headphones. Jefferson Police and CSX are investigating.

*Look for lots of cars in Commerce tonight: the third annual Cruisin’ Commerce car show gets underway at 6 and lasts til 10. The event is sponsored and organized by the Commerce Downtown Development Authority.

Northbound lanes of I-85 in Jackson County are open this morning: they were closed for several hours Thursday after a tractor-trailer rig overturned on the interstate. There were no injuries.

Saturday is arts festival day in Banks County: the second annual Festival of Arts gets underway at 9 o’clock tomorrow morning at the courthouse square in Homer.

A man and woman are arrested in Royston, accused of stealing puppies: Katie Walker is 20 years old; Tevin Roebuck is 21. Both are from Royston. Investigators in the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office say Roebuck and Walker stole 8 dogs from an animal shelter in Lavonia. They were booked into the Franklin County Detention Center.

*Today is the last day of spring semester classes at the University of North Georgia. Spring final exams get underway Monday for students on all four UNG campuses.

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is weighing in, saying the punishments fit the crimes in the Atlanta Public School System cheating trial: several of those convicted were sentenced to prison time after changing student answers on standardized tests.

It happened near Marietta: a motorcycle rider killed in a collision with a car in Cobb County.

A 7 year-old boy is hospitalized, at last report in stable condition, after being hit by a truck in Cobb County: Cobb County Police are investigating.

*There was a memorial service last night in Statesboro, a candlelight vigil for the five Georgia Southern University nursing students killed in that Wednesday crash on I-16 in Bryan County.

*A South Carolina state Senate committee is exploring the possibility of floating a $150 million dollar bond to use as an incentive to lure Volvo away from Georgia. Volvo is said to be looking at Georgia as a home for its new North American assembly plant. Georgia is offering $40 million