Friday, March 27th

Arthur Blank is in Athens today: the Home Depot co-founder and principal owner of the Atlanta Falcons speaks at the University of Georgia as part of the business college’s Terry Leadership Speaker Series. Arthur Blank’s address is set for 10 o’clock this morning in the Chapel on UGA’s North Campus.

The Georgia Bulldog football team—continuing its spring training practice sessions—got a Thursday visit from Bulldog legend Herschel Walker.

The University of Georgia and its newly opened Veterinary Medicine facility host a two-day veterinary conference that gets underway today in Athens: the 52^nd annual Veterinary Conference and Alumni Weekend takes place at the Georgia Center.

One more day of parent-teacher conferences for parents and teachers in the Clarke County School District, and one more day of early releases for Clarke County school students: elementary students are dismissed at 12:30 this afternoon; middle and high school students, an hour later at 1:30.

Athens-Clarke County Police say a woman was treated at Athens Regional Medical Center for cuts on the face suffered when someone threw a brick through a window of her home on Rolling Ridge Drive. A police investigation is ongoing.

The Georgia State Patrol has released the name of the man killed in this week’s car crash in Madison County: State Troopers say 32 year-old Donald Jennings of Danielsville was a passenger in a car driven by Danielle Jennings, also 32. The Gainesville woman faces a DUI charge after the Wednesday wreck on Old Wildcat Bridge Road in Madison County.

Barrow County sheriff's deputies have arrested the husband of a home day care operator in Auburn, charging him with molesting children at his wife’s state-licensed preschool program.  64 year-old Richard Paltrineri faces multiple counts of child molestation, sexual battery, and aggravated sodomy. The day care center operated by his wife Susan has been ordered closed.

A teenager is booked into the Hall County jail, accused of stabbing and wounding his older brother: 18 year-old Ashley Hood is looking at an aggravated assault charge. His 25 year-old brother was treated at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville for what were described as non life-threatening injuries.

A Hall County man gets 20 years in prison for killing his brother: Mark Fyfe killed Scott Fyfe in 2013, a Christmas Day shooting at a home in Flowery Branch.

It is no longer Lanier Islands Parkway: it will again be Friendship Road. Hall County Commissioners renamed the road at their meeting last night in Gainesville.

The state Labor Department is holding a Saturday jobs fair to help fill seasonal and full-time job openings at Lake Lanier Islands Resort in Buford. The jobs recruitment fair starts at 10 tomorrow morning and lasts til 1 tomorrow afternoon in the resort’s grand ballroom.

The GBI has identified the two men shot to death this week in Habersham County. Ronald Ramey was 68 years old; Hershel Key was 77. Autopsies on the bodies of the men who were killed Mt. Airy were conducted Thursday.

They are accused of being bad cops: The chief and the assistant chief of the police department in the Bartow County city of Euharlee police have turned themselves in on charges of stealing public funds and violating their oaths of office.

Atlanta Police now say this week’s meth bust in southwest Atlanta was bigger than first thought: drug agents say they confiscated $11 million worth of methamphetamine.

A 4 year-old Clayton County boy reported missing earlier this week has been found safe; Clayton County authorities say the boy's father has been arrested.

New census bureau numbers show that west Georgia’s Chattahoochee County lost more residents at a faster rate than any other county in the country.  The county just south of Columbus lost almost five percent of its population over the past year.

Now comes word that Governor Nathan Deal might not sign the medical marijuana bill today, after all: rather, he will announce that he is going to sign it after next week's end of this year's legislative session. Final versions of the prescription pot legislation cleared the Georgia House and Senate earlier this week.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution quotes Georgia lawmakers who say Governor Nathan Deal has told them that if he doesn't get satisfactory results from the legislative session that ends next week, he will call a special session to deal the issue of transportation funding.

Two Georgia-based sailors are being court-martialed on charges of videotaping female officers and trainees as they undressed on a submarine. It allegedly happened aboard the USS Wyoming.