The college football world is reacting to the news of the new offensive coordinator for the Georgia Bulldog football team: Brian Schottenheimer is leaving the NFL to replace Mike Bobo, who left after 14 seasons on the staff of Bulldog coach Mark Richt to become head coach at Colorado State University. Schottenheimer comes to Athens from his recent stint in the National Football League, where he served as an assistant coach for the St. Louis Rams.

A former Georgia Bulldog football player faces a DUI charge in Gwinnett County: Tim Jennings is a defensive back for the Chicago Bears. He was arrested after a traffic stop in Duluth.

Four of the five members of the Athens area legislative delegation spoke in a Tuesday forum at the Athens Country Club, a gathering organized by the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce and hosted by the Athens Rotary Clubs. State Reps Regina Quick, Spencer Frye, and Chuck Williams were joined by state Senator Frank Ginn in previewing the legislative session that begins Monday beneath the Gold Dome in Atlanta.

Today’s campus blood drive starts at 11 and lasts til 4 at UGA’s Chicopee Complex.

The Athens-Clarke County Planning Commission meets tonight, 7 o’clock at the Government Building on Dougherty Street.

The Athens-Clarke County Commission’s Rails to Trails committee meets this afternoon: 5:15 at the Government Building on Dougherty Street.

There is an afternoon meeting of the Athens-Clarke County Board of Assessors, 5:30 at City Hall

The first Clarke County School Board meeting of the New Year is on tap for tonight, a 6 o’clock session at School System headquarters off Mitchell Bridge Road.

The Oconee Rivers Audubon Society meets tonight: 7 o’clock at the Sandy Creek Nature Center.

Athens-Clarke County Police are investigating a reported rape: a 21 year-old woman says she was sexually assaulted by a 19 year-old University of Georgia student.

Madison County Commissioners sign off on a plan to expand the Madison County jail, adding almost three dozen new beds to the lock up on Highway 98. It’s a $3 million project that will be funded mostly by Madison County sales tax dollars.

The Jefferson City Council meets in a special session set for 2:30 this afternoon at the Jefferson Station meeting room: same time, same place tomorrow as the Council interviews the two finalists to be the next Jefferson City Manager. Ben Andrews is a community development director in Americus; Jason Tinsley is an administrator in Jesup.

With the coldest weather of the season descending on northeast Georgia, at least three school systems are delaying the start of their school days: schools in White, Habersham, and Towns counties are opening two hours later than normal this morning.

One arrest so far, with more expected after a drug raid at a home in Cumming: Forsyth County drug agents say they found two kilos of heroin believed to have been smuggled from Mexico.

There is grim speculation about a body found at a bus stop in Atlanta: Atlanta police investigators say the man might have frozen to death.

The Atlanta Hawks are officially on the market: 100 percent of the team, up for sale, with various officials with the franchise and in the city of Atlanta trying to tamp down rumors about a relocation to Seattle. Meantime, the Atlanta Falcons will seek $45,000 for personal seat licenses from fans who want the best seats in the new stadium under construction in downtown Atlanta. The new retractable roof facility is slated to open in 2017.

The nearly two dozen people arrested in Atlanta, protesting the grand jury decision in Ferguson Missouri, were in court Wednesday in Atlanta.

The GBI says the victims of that triple-murder suicide in Paulding County were all shot in the head: a 21 year-old stepson, accused of a shooting and killing his sheriff’s deputy stepfather and two other family members, then turning his gun on himself at the family’s home in Paulding County. Still no word on a motive; funerals next Monday.

State officials say December was another month of increasing state revenues in Georgia, with the tax take up 9 percent from December of 2013.

With Republicans now in control of the U.S. Senate, Georgia’s senior Senator will chair two Senate committees: Johnny Isakson will hold the gavel for meetings of the Veterans Affairs and ethics committees. Isakson becomes the only Senator to chair two committees.

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