The Board of the University of Georgia Athletic Association is meeting on St. Simons. The board is expected to approve a contract extension and salary increase for Bulldog basketball coach Mark Fox.

Today is another midterm day at UGA: the midpoint of the University’s May session classes.

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

It is a sure sign of a rapidly approaching summer: the University of Georgia’s Legion Pool opens this morning, open through the first week in August.

The Northeast Georgia Regional Commission meets today in Athens, a noon-hour session at the downtown Holiday Inn.

Athens-Clarke County Police arrest a second teenager in last month’s reported armed robbery of a pizza delivery man who says he was held up on Harve Mathes Road: 18 year-old Allen James was booked into the Clarke County jail; 17 year-old Chase Baker was already in custody.

The Clarke County High School graduation season begins tonight, with commencement exercise for the Classic City High School class of 2015 set for 6:30 at the Morton Theatre. Clarke Central and Cedar Shoals high schools hold their graduation exercises Saturday in Stegeman Coliseum.

School’s out: today is the last day of class for students in the Clarke County School District. Their Oconee County counterparts put the wraps on their school year Wednesday.

With Wednesday’s end of the school year in Oconee County, the DOT begins today a new phase of work on the Mars Hill Road widening project, working in the area of Oconee Middle School. The Mars Hill widening work is a $26.3 million project that will cover just over 3 miles. It’s due for completion in the spring of 2018.

Madison County Commissioners meet, 6:30 this evening at the Madison County Government Complex in Danielsville.

Two people arrested after a high-speed police chase in Franklin County were, at last report, still in the Franklin County jail awaiting bond hearings: David Charping and his wife Alicia are from Newton County. They were arrested after a police pursuit that began on State Route 17 in Lavonia and ended on Highway 59 near Carnesville. The Franklin County Sheriff's Office says the Charlings were arrested after crashing the car and running into the woods.

The funeral for Curtis Segars is set for 2 o'clock this afternoon at the First Baptist Church in Gainesville. The principal who guided Gainesville High School through integration died earlier this week. Curtis Segars, who also served as a chairman of the Hall County Commission, was 81 years old.

The NFL makes it official: Atlanta is in the running to host an upcoming Super Bowl, either in 2019 or 2020. Atlanta is among four finalists for the big game, which would be played in the new Falcons stadium that is scheduled to open in 2017.

State officials close a daycare center in Cobb County: the center in Austell will be out of operation for at least 21 days during an investigation into an incident of earlier this month, in which a girl was left unattended in a daycare van for more than five hours.

We have this morning the names of the five people killed in that fiery interstate crash west of Savannah: Glenda Adams was 72 years old, from Cohutta. She and 71 year-old Jerry Earnest of Varnell were in one car that was hit by a tractor-trailer rig on I-16, near the interchange with I-95. The others--39 year-old Wendy Melton of Reidsville, 19 year-old Virgil Moody of Hagan, and 16 year-old Brittanie Altman of Claxton--were in a second car.

A Chatham County man’s efforts to get out of his probation will likely result in him getting 10 years in prison. David Evans pleaded guilty in federal court to threatening to blow up the probation office in Savannah back in December. He also admitted to building a fake bomb and placing it in the bathroom of the office. That happened in January. Explosives were later found in his home.

ConAgra foods will pay $11.2 million, a settlement on a federal criminal charge that the company knowingly shipped contaminated peanut butter from a plant in Worth County. More than 600 people were made ill by a salmonella outbreak that led to a massive Peter Pan recall.

A mother and father are arrested in Soperton, charged in the death of their 2 year-old son: investigators in the Truetlen County Sheriff’s Office say Aerick McManus was beaten to death. They say 22 year-old Porshia Johnson and her 22 year-old boyfriend Travis Jordan told deputies the toddler drowned in a backyard swimming pool. Johnson and Jordan are facing felony murder and child cruelty charges.

With Memorial Day approaching, a report on how military retirees rank in Georgia: 28th overall on among a listing of the best and worst states for retired veterans.

The state Labor Department says the Georgia jobless rate remains unchanged from March to April, checking in both months at 6.3 percent.

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