The state Labor Department says the Athens unemployment rate remains unchanged from November, checking in at the same 4.9 percent in December.

The University of Georgia says phone lines at the campus police department might be out of service tonight: maintenance on police department administrative lines is scheduled to take place after 8 o'clock. UGA says anyone who needs camps police assistance should call 911 while the work is being done.

The University of Georgia’s annual 100 Days Until Graduation Event takes place today, with activities starting at 10 at the Tate Student Center.

University of Georgia President Jere Morehead is on the road today, speaking to a civic club in a noon-hour event at the First Baptist Church in Griffin.

Athens-Clarke County Police say a 20 year-old University of Georgia student has apparently been the victim of a telephone scam, sending $4,500 to a caller who claimed to be filing warrants on behalf of the Atlanta Police Department.

There are plans for a new reservoir in Barrow County: it will be owned by the city of Auburn, which will share the water and the operations costs with the city of Winder.

Three drug suspects have been arrested at a home in Elberton: the Elbert County Sheriff's Office says Richard Hounds, James Booth, and Rebecca Tatum are all charged with possessing and manufacturing methamphetamine, as are at least two suspects arrested in a similar drug raid in Dawson County: drug agents in the Dawson County Sheriff’s Office say they have found and dismantled a meth lab.

Police departments in Royston and Lavonia are getting grant money from the Governor's Office of Highway Safety: each city gets $10,000 to purchase new police equipment.

The first of two public forums on a proposal to close Benton Elementary School is set for this evening: it will take place in the gymnasium of the school in Nicholson. The Jackson County School Board is looking to close the school, which has an enrollment of only 323 students, far below the 450 required to receive administration funding from the state. Tonight's forum is set for 6:30. A second public hearing takes place one week from tonight at Jackson County School System headquarters in Jefferson.

Northeast Georgia Medical Center is getting a new president: Louis Smith Junior will head the hospital in Gainesville, filling the post vacated by Brad Nurkin, who resigned last year.

An appointment to the Gainesville Parks and Recreation Board is on the agenda for today’s Gainesville City Council meeting: the Council work session gets underway at 9 o’clock this morning at the Administration Building in Gainesville.

A professor at Reinhardt University in Waleska resigns amid an investigation into allegations of sexual battery: Dr. Michael Gregory is named in a complaint filed by a Reinhardt student.

The Atlanta Public School System cheating trial marks a milestone: day 50 in the trials of 12 former educators and administrators, accused of changing student answers on standardized tests

There was trolley talk last evening in Marietta, where the City Council discussed a street car that could be used to shuttle passengers to the new Braves stadium in Cobb County.

Trouble in Cobb County: police are looking for the man who exposed himself to children at a school bus stop in Acworth.

Bud and June Runion will be laid to rest after Saturday funerals in Cobb County: their accused killer, 28 year-old Jay Towns, is behind bars, charged in the murders of the husband and wife who were killed in Telfair County, murdered after answering an ad on Craigslist.

Something new for the airport in Savannah: a new 5 dollar-a-day parking deck opens today at the Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport.

Savannah reports a hefty spike in convention business, up 20 percent from 2013 to 2014.

There are NASA dollars for Dougherty County: West Enterprises in Albany will get $8.8 million to upgrade the power system at the Kennedy Space Station in Florida.

A bill that would require insurance companies that operate in Georgia to provide coverage for treatment of childhood autism will be introduced today in the Georgia Senate. A similar measure died on the last day of last year's legislative session.

Dueling rallies Wednesday in Atlanta: supporters and critics of so-called religious liberty legislation staged demonstrations at the state capitol.

It’s a first step in the legislative budget process: a state House committee signs off on a mid-year budget. And the first House and Senate votes of the legislative session are anticipated today.

Georgia Republican David Perdue will chair subcommittees on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations and Agriculture Committees.

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