Carolyn Drews-Botsch is on the University of Georgia campus today. She’s a vice-chair of academic affairs at Emory and is a finalist to be the next dean of the UGA grad school.

The University of Georgia’s two-day Computer Health and Security Fair gets underway today, 10 o’clock at the Miller Learning Center.

*Today’s campus blood drive starts at 10 and lasts til 7 at UGA’s Myers Hall.

Athens-Clarke County Commissioners meet tonight, a 7 o’clock session at City Hall: downtown parking and sidewalk cafes are among the items on the Commission’s business agenda. Commissioners are also set to allocate $300,000 for the upcoming Jamie Hood trial. Hood faces a death penalty trial for the 2011 murder of Athens-Clarke County Police Officer Buddy Christian. That trial is set to start later this year.

The Athens-Clarke County Board of Elections meets this afternoon, 3 o’clock at Elections offices on Washington Street.

Another day, another rash of residential break-ins on the Athens-Clarke County Police blotter: homes on Mark Twain Circle and Stevens Street are on the list of those hit by burglars, who tell police they lost TVs, laptops, and other electronics.

Athens-Clarke County Police are posting reward money in the ongoing search for suspects in a recent rash of armed robberies in and around downtown Athens: University of Georgia students and one UGA professor have been among the robbery victims. Police and the local Crimestoppers group are offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information that leads to arrests and convictions.

Tonight's Oconee County Commission starts at 7 at the courthouse in Watkinsville.

The driver of the van that crashed on I-85 south of Commerce tells Georgia State Troopers he fell asleep at the wheel: three people were killed, nine injured in the wreck near Maysville Highway in Jackson County. The van was carrying members of heavy metal bands to a concert that was to have taken place last night in Atlanta.  We have this morning the names of the deceased: Paul Truesdell was 29 years old, from Mableton; 30 year-old Ian McKinney was from Tennessee; Nicholos Crisostomo was 25, from Virginia. Three of those injured were taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville; five were transported to Athens Regional Medical Center. The driver of the van—27 year-old Sergio Quesada—is from Athens. The Georgia State Patrol says he could face charges.

*Jackson County officials have not yet released the name of the man gored to death by a bull at his home near Hoschton. It happened at a farm off Highway 332 in Jackson County.

This afternoon’s meeting of the Gainesville City Council starts at 5:30 at the Gainesville Public Safety Complex.

There’s word this morning that the Office Depot store in Gainesville will close next month.

An internal review questions the safety of Gwinnett County Police helicopters.

*LaToya Tilson waives a first court appearance: she's the College Park mother accused of shooting and fatally wounding her 15 year-old son. She tells College Park Police she fired the gunshot in an effort to break up a fight.

From Cobb County: Lockheed Martin hosts the 60th anniversary of the roll-out and first flight of the very first c-130j Super Hercules built at the plant in Marietta.

Two supervising corrections officers, apparently on duty when 18 year-old Cortez Berry was being beaten at the Burruss Correctional Training Center in Monroe County have resigned. A spokesperson for the Georgia Department of Corrections would not disclose the names of the officers, citing the ongoing investigation into Berry's beating and the continued use of cell phones in prisons. In March, Berry, who was serving time for armed robbery and carjacking, was beaten by at least 10 gang members at Burruss. His family said the beating occurred because he refused to join the gang.

Today is another day for practice rounds at the Augusta National Golf Course: the world’s greatest golfers are gearing up for Thursday’s start of the Masters.

*Peach growers in middle Georgia say a late freeze and frost has killed about a quarter of this year’s peach crop.

*A body has been pulled from a pond near Douglas: Coffee County Sheriff’s Office investigators say it’s near the search area where a man went missing two weeks ago.

*The state gives up another $480,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit: Mary Grabowski says she was fired after refusing to gloss over what she calls unethical and inappropriate conduct, by then Georgia National Guard Commander Jim Butterworth. She was a spokeswoman for the Guard.  Butterworth now heads the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.

*Triple-A South says Georgia gas prices could slip below the $2 per gallon mark this summer.

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