University of Georgia President Jere Morehead repeated his call for better pay for University faculty and staff in his annual State of the University Address, a speech delivered Wednesday in the Chapel on UGA’s North Campus.

There is now a third arrest in this month’s murder of a University of Georgia student who was killed in what looks to have been a drug deal: 20 year-old Lucas Raposo, who is also a UGA student, is charged in the January 13 shooting of Min Cho, who was gunned down at an off-campus apartment complex. Athens-Clarke County Police say it was Raposo who drove Cho to Athens Regional Medical Center, where the 21 year-old died of his gunshot wounds. 18 year-old Andre Ruff and 21 year-old Cormaine Goss were arrested last week.

As had been anticipated, the coach of the Georgia Bulldog football team gets a raise and a contract extension: $4 million in annual compensation for coach Mark Richt and two new years on a contract that was to have expired in 2017.

Today’s campus blood drive: 11 til 5 at the University of Georgia’s Vet College.

The school system that has Georgia’s state School Superintendent of the Year now has two finalists to be the state Principal of the Year. Clarke County School Superintendent Phil Lanoue says Dwight Manzy and Melanie Sigler are up for the honor that will be awarded later this year. Manzy is principal at Coile Middle School, Sigler at Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School.

Oconee County Commissioners are meeting in a day-long planning session today: it starts at 8:30 and is scheduled to wrap up at 5 at the Northeast Georgia Regional Planning Commission offices in Athens. Another session is set for Friday; same time, same place.

The Georgia DOT has a heads up for Oconee County: drivers can look for dump trucks on Mars Hill Road today, moving dirt as part of a $26.3 million Mars Hill widening project that is due for completion in 2018. The DOT says the dump truck activity will make for delays on Mars Hill Road between Hodges Mill Road and Riverhaven Lane. This phase of the 3.2 mile project is expected to last for about a week.

Barrow County state Representative Terry England and Hall County School Superintendent Will Schofield are among the members of an Education Reform Commission appointed by Governor Nathan Deal.  The Governor says the Commission will study the state’s education system, including its funding formula, and provide recommendations aimed at improvements.

Hall County Commissioners meet this evening, a 6 o’clock session at the Hall County Government Center in Gainesville.

Funeral today for Harold Black: the service is set for 4 o’clock this afternoon in the Chapel of the Little and Davenport Funeral Home in Gainesville. Black was a former Commander in the Gainesville Police Department and a Purple Heart recipient in the Korean War. Black died earlier this week at the age of 86.

The Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office says the death of a man who was killed while working as a tree trimmer appears to have been an accident: Brian Johnson was working on a tree of Georgia Highway 400 in Lumpkin County, on a crew that was clearing trees for power line right-of-way. Johnson was 27 years old, from Forsyth County.

There is a boil water advisory in place for much of Clarkesville.

There are reports of funny money in northeast Georgia: the Rabun County Sheriff’s Office says a man and woman arrested earlier this month on drug charges could face counterfeiting charges. Drug charges for 48 year-old Thomas Williams include heroin possession; he and 51 year-old Cynthia Ermey were arrested in Clayton, caught with what appear to have been bogus bills.

DeKalb County Police say they have surveillance camera images of a suspect in the arson fire that burned an elementary school building in Lithonia: almost three-quarters of a million dollars in damage, and students now attending classes at a nearby high school.

Speed limits on the rise on 90 miles of interstate highways around metro Atlanta: the DOT says some stretches of interstate are seeing maximum speeds climb from 55 to 65 miles per hour; others, from 65 to 70. The DOT says none of those are in downtown Atlanta.

Clark Atlanta University will lead a consortium of historically black colleges to spend a $25 million grant, trying to push more graduates into the cyber security field.

It will mean more new jobs for Georgia: Osmose Utilities is opening a facility in Fayette County, with about 100 payroll positions for its new headquarters in Peachtree City. Osmose Utilities is an inspection and maintenance service provide for electrical and telephone companies.

They’ve found the car; authorities in Lowndes County were, at last report, still searching for the driver who dragged a Valdosta Police officer about 700 feet after a traffic stop: scrapes and bruises for the officer.

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