Tuesday, May 5th

Athens-Clarke County Commissioners meet tonight. Clarke County jail expansion, the Mitchell Bridge Road widening project, and appointments to the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission are on the agenda for the 7 o’clock session at City Hall.

The Athens Downtown Development Authority meets this afternoon, 3 o’clock in the Hancock Avenue offices of the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce.

A Clarke County School Board budget hearing is set for 5:30 this afternoon at Alps Road Elementary School.

We have this morning the name of the man who was killed in a Sunday crash on Mitchell Bridge Road. Athens-Clarke County Police say Randall Duncan was 53 years old, from Athens. They say he was not wearing his seat belt when he wrecked his car on Mitchell Bridge near High Ridge Drive.

Athens-Clarke County Police are investigating reports of gunshots from a car in the direction of a home on Creek Hollow Way. Police say there were no injuries, and only a vague description of the automobile, a white car, maybe a Honda or Toyota.

A man tells Athens-Clarke County Police he was the victim of an armed robbery: he says it happened at an apartment complex on Howell Way. He says he lost $300 to a man who pulled a handgun. There were no injuries reported.

Monday was graduation day at Athens Technical College.

Oconee County Commissioners meet, 7 o’clock tonight at the courthouse in Watkinsville.

North Georgia’s newest hospital begins work on its obstetrics unit: officials at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Braselton broke ground on the $16 million facility Monday. It’s expected to open in January of 2017.

There are now hit-and-run charges for a Gainesville man accused in a deadly accident in Jackson County: the Georgia State Patrol says 51 year-old Billy Bowers was behind the wheel of the car that struck and killed a man who was riding a bicycle. It happened on Highway 53 near the Hall-Jackson county line.

Today's Gainesville City Council meeting starts at 5:30 this afternoon at the Public Safety complex in Gainesville.

The athletic director at Centennial High School will be the new AD for the Gainesville City School System: the Gainesville School Board has named Billy Kirk as a successor to Wayne Vickery, who has held the post for more than three decades.

It took several hours for Hall County workers to fix a water main break that closed a busy street in Oakwood: Old Oakwood Drive was the scene of the break that disrupted traffic for much of the afternoon Monday.

Federal prosecutors say the former vice president of a failed north Georgia bank has been sentenced on fraud charges. Authorities say 54 year-old William Beamon of Atlanta has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison. Prosecutors have said Beamon led Appalachian Community Bank's foreclosure liquidation department and told a real estate agent that a bank-owned property in Cumming was actually his. They say Beamon had the agent put the property on the market and Beamon pocketed more than $20,000 in rent and security deposits. The Ellijay-based bank closed in 2009.

Still no statement from Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill after that Sunday shooting in Gwinnett County: a woman—now identified as a realtor—was shot and critically wounded at a home in Lawrenceville. Hill, as is allowed by state law, left the scene without answering questions from Gwinnett County Police investigators. The woman remains hospitalized at Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville. Gwenevere McCord is 43 years old, from Jonesboro.

An ongoing investigation in Atlanta: Atlanta police say a body was found in a trash can.

A man arrested in Atlanta, accused of trying to snatch a woman's purse: Atlanta Police say it was the suspect's 66^th arrest.

There are now charges for the driver of a pick-up truck involved in a fatal vehicle vs. bicycle collision in north Fulton County: John Blankenship is 46 years old, from Jasper. He was driving the truck that struck and killed Jason Young. Young was 45 years old, from Canton. The accident happened in Milton.

Governor Nathan Deal signed the massive transportation funding bill Monday, the measure designed to generate almost a billion dollars a year for roads and bridges in Georgia.

The Georgia Department of Economic Development is out with new numbers on tourism, says tourists generated more than $57 billion in economic activity in 2014, up more than six percent from 2013.