Athens-Clarke County Police investigate a shooting: Police say the victim was shot in the leg at a home on Vine Circle, suffering what were described as non life-threatening injuries. Police were, at last report, still searching for a suspect.

Members of the local legislative delegation will address this evening’s meeting of the Athens-Clarke County Republican Party. They’ll recap the legislative session that ended last month. The meeting is set for 6 o’clock at the Country Inn and Suites on Old Epps Bridge Road.

Robert Yankello is on campus today: the chief technology officer at the University of Central Florida in Orlando is among the finalists for that same job at the University of Georgia.

The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission meets, 6 o'clock this evening in the Hancock Avenue headquarters of the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce.

There is an afternoon meeting of the Athens-Clarke County Commission's Lexington Road corridor study committee.

Emergency preparedness is the focus of tonight's meeting of the Athens Federation of Neighborhoods: it's a 7 o'clock forum at Cine on West Hancock. 

They are calling it a power lunch: the Georgia Chamber of Commerce session gets underway at 11:30 this morning Creature Comforts on West Hancock Avenue in Athens. More than 100 members of the state Chamber are expected to be on hand. Georgia Chamber president Chris Clark is the scheduled speaker.

There are meetings today in Oconee County: a 4 o'clock session of the Oconee County Industrial Development Authority and a 5 o'clock meeting of the Oconee County Board of Elections. 

Hall County Commissioners meet this afternoon: it's a 3 o'clock work session at the Hall County Government Center in Gainesville. Commissioners are working on a budget that could include pay raises for Hall County workers. A budget forum is set for later this month in Gainesville.

Investigators in the Hall County Sheriff’s Office were, at last report, still searching for suspects in the reported stabbing of a man who says he was attacked while jogging. The man was treated for non life-threatening injuries at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville.

Brenau University will open a campus in Florida: the school in Gainesville will offer graduate and undergraduate degree programs in Jacksonville.

One person is dead after a Sunday fall on Mount Yonah in White County. White County’s Public Safety Director describes the victim as a 40 year-old male whose name has not yet been released. Investigators say he fell about 100 feet from the face of the mountain near Cleveland and was pronounced dead on the scene.

A special election is set for June 16 in DeKalb County: voters will choose a replacement for Lee May, the DeKalb County Commissioner and interim DeKalb County CEO who announced his resignation late last week.

A memorial service for three of the four victims of last Friday’s plane crash is set for today in Asheville North Carolina a father, his two sons, and one of the son’s fiancé was killed when their small plane crash on I-285, closing the Atlanta perimeter for several hours. Wreckage of the plane is in an airport hangar in Griffin, to be reconstructed by investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board.


It will be life in prison for a Walker County, convicted in the 2104 murder of his grandmother: Joshua Fowler is 32 years old; Joyce Fowler was 75. The murder weapon: a metal pipe.

Three people are in custody in the shooting death of a 21 year-old Troup County man. Tony Kennedy of LaGrange was shot in mid-April. The suspects range in age from 17 to 20 and face murder, aggravated assault, and firearms possession charges.

Weekend graduation exercises in Statesboro: students wore ribbons in memory of the five Georgia Southern University nursing students who were killed in last month’s fiery crash on I-16 in Bryan County.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says Volvo will not be building its North American assembly plant in southeast Georgia: Georgia had been a finalist for the plant and the jobs that will come with it. Looks like Volvo will instead set up shop in South Carolina.

Governor Nathan Deal names a new planning director for the Georgia Department of Transportation: state Rep Jay Roberts is a Republican from Ocilla; he was the primary author of the House transportation funding bill the Governor signed into law earlier this month.

Jimmy Carter is back in Atlanta, cutting short his trip to Guyana: the former President was there to observe elections. A statement on the Carter Center website says the 90 year-old Carter was not feeling well. There was no word on the nature of the illness.

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