There was a Sunday night car crash on the Highway 10 Loop, a multi-vehicle pileup on the Outer Loop between Commerce Road and Chase Street. Athens-Clarke County Coroner Sonny Wilson says there was one fatality. That stretch of the Loop was closed for several hours. Athens-Clarke County Police say it is open this morning

Another finalist to be the next dean of the University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry is on campus today: Mark Ryan is the director of the School of Natural Resources at the University of Missouri.

The University of Georgia Law School lines up a commencement speaker for its upcoming graduation exercises: UGA alum and former Clarke County Superior Court Judge Steve Jones is now a federal judge in Atlanta. He’ll address this year’s law school graduates in commencement exercises set for May 16 in Stegeman Coliseum.

Today is the last day of spring semester classes at the University of Georgia.

Today’s campus blood drive: 2:30 til 7 at UGA’s East Campus Village.

There is tax talk this evening in Athens: the Citizens SPLOST Oversight Committee meets in a 6 o’clock session at City Hall.

Athens-Clarke County Police report more automobile break-ins, with several cars hit on Jarnigan Drive. That’s off College Station Road on Athens’ east side.

Athens-Clarke County Police are investigating reports of gunshots fired at a vehicle on Sartain Drive: the driver of the vehicle was not injured. He tells police the man who was shooting at him was last seen driving toward Winterville Road.

The Oglethorpe County Zoning Board meets tonight, 7 o’clock at the courthouse in Lexington.

Georgia State Troopers arrest suspects in a reported armed robbery in Commerce: Carl Garrett and Shaheed Scott are from North Carolina. They’re charged with holding up a convenience store in Commerce. They were arrested on I-85 in Franklin County.

A week of spring semester final exams begins today at the University of North Georgia.

With legislative approval of state funding, the University of North Georgia announces plans to open an instructional site in Blue Ridge. The new facility, slated to open in the fall, will expand the roster of UNG campuses to five. The University of North Georgia has other campuses in Hall, Oconee, Lumpkin, and Forsyth counties.

Candidate qualifying begins today in Flowery Branch: there are two seats on the Flowery Branch City Council up for grabs in special elections set for June 16. Tara Richards and Damon Gibbs resigned their Council seats earlier this year. Gibbs was named Superintendent of Schools in Dawson County, while Richards left Hall County for a job in Texas.

Gwinnett County Police have a suspect in custody, an arrest after a deadly hit-and-run wreck on a highway near Lawrenceville: Gwinnett Police say the victim was struck and killed while riding a scooter; the suspect was arrested about a quarter-mile away.

Gwinnett County firefighters say a child playing with a lighter likely started a fire at an apartment complex in Lawrenceville. There were no injuries at the Arium at Sweetwater Apartments but the fire affected 21 units.

She was on her way to serve as a chaperone at a high school prom: Leah O’Brien was killed in a weekend car crash in DeKalb County. Police in Decatur say her 8 year-old daughter was critically injured in the wreck in Decatur.

Federal officials say they’ve arrested eight members of an Atlanta based fraud ring. It involves theft of $10 million in U.S. Treasury checks stolen from an Atlanta post office and cashed at grocery stores and other businesses in nine states using fraudulent IDs. The feds say another suspect is expected to surrender.

No more Braves shuttle from MARTA’s Underground Atlanta station, starting with tonight’s game against the Washington Nationals. The Braves MARTA shuttle will operate from the West End station in downtown Atlanta. The Braves shuttle runs to Turner Field from 90 minutes before each home game to 1 hour after the final out.

Two people have been killed in a shooting in northwest Atlanta.

There were weekend funerals in metro Atlanta—one in Alpharetta, the other in Cobb County—for two of the five victims on last week’s crash on I-16 in Bryan County. All five were nursing students at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro.

The Skyy Mims trial starts today in Dalton: the 21 year-old aspiring rapper from Detroit is charged in last year’s stabbing death of a Dalton convenience store clerk. Police say the 37 year-old clerk was killed in a robbery in which cash and lottery tickets were stolen.

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