The Georgia legislature’s so-called Todd Gurley bill awaits the signature of Governor Nathan Deal. The measure would impose penalties on sports memorabilia dealers who entice college athletes into activities that jeopardize their eligibility. Gurley, the Georgia Bulldogs star tailback, was suspended four games this past season after taking money to sign autographs on jerseys and other items.

Former Athens state Representative and former state Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond delivers the University of Georgia’s annual Mary Frances Early Lecture, 3 o’clock this afternoon in the Tate Student Center. The lecture is named in honor of the first black graduate at UGA.

Today is an open house day at UGA: open house for the University’s Electron Microscopy Center, 9 o’clock this morning at Barrow Hall.

The board of the Sandy Creek Nature Center meets this afternoon, 5:30 at the Center off Commerce Road.

The Lyndon House Arts Foundation meets today: it’s a 5:30 session at the facility on Hoyt Street in Athens.

Athens-Clarke County Police investigate a report that an east side business was ransacked and burglarized: hundreds of dollars in cash reported stolen from a hair salon on Lexington Road.

There is water main work today in Stephens County, and the DOT says it will make for traffic delays on State Route 17 in Martin:  it is part of a 6.2 mile Highway 17 widening project, a $46.2 million job that is due for completion by June of next year.

Today is opening day for northeast Georgia’s newest hospital: Northeast Georgia Medical Center is in Braselton. It’s the first new hospital in Georgia in twenty years.

Today is a deadline day in Gainesville: the last day to file Hall County property tax returns. It’s also the deadline for homestead tax exemption filings in Hall County.

White County Commissioners, meeting this week in Cleveland, sign off on plans for a guardrail on a bridge on Nix Road: two teenagers were killed when their car plunged over the bridge and into a creek last month. Taylor Swingg was 18 years old; Cecily Hamilton was 16.

There is a boil water advisory for parts of Habersham County: a water main break in Demorest is the culprit. Meantime, White County officials have lifted a boil water advisory that had been in place for parts of Cleveland.

Wilkes County investigators are looking into the death of an 81-year-old woman found in a ditch along Gordon Street in Washington.  The Wilkes County Sheriff's Office has called the GBI to assist in the investigation. They are considering her death suspicious pending the outcome of the autopsy. The name of the woman has not been released.

It will be up to a six member panel from the state House and Senate to decide the cityhood efforts of Lavista Hills and Tucker, possibly two new municipalities for DeKalb County.

There is a new president for Clark Atlanta University: Ronald Johnson is dean of the business college at Texas Southern University. Johnson replaces the retiring Carlton Brown.

Save your dollar — the Atlanta Streetcar will remain free through 2015. Mayor Kasim Reed announced the news at the annual meeting of Central Atlanta Progress, the downtown booster organization that helped bring the $98 million project to the city. Atlanta was set to charge riders a $1 fare beginning this month, three months after the streetcar opened in late December. Many have criticized the streetcar, which circulates a one-way 2.7 mile track in downtown Atlanta. City leaders, however, say the project is a boon to economic development and tourism.

Tickets go on sale later this month: the Rolling Stones are including Atlanta on a 15-city tour, Bobby Dodd Stadium at Georgia Tech on June 9.

One of Tybee Island's most recognizable features will get a partial makeover in time for the summer tourist season. Chatham County Commissioners have signed off on a $78,000 contract to renovate the Walter Parker Pier Pavilion. The renovations are the first since the county built the tax-dollar-funded pier almost twenty years ago.

The state Senate has signed off on a bill that guarantees insurance coverage for children with autism. It’s the final draft of a bill that died on the last day of last year’s legislative session.  The measure heads now to the desk of Georgia Governor Nathan Deal.

About two hundred opponents of the proposed religious liberty bill staged a Tuesday protest at the state capitol in Atlanta.

The state House approves a constitutional amendment and its enabling legislation that would require strip clubs to pay a fee to help child victims of human trafficking. Georgia voters will decide the proposed amendment next year.

The Georgia Senate votes to name the white tailed deer as Georgia's official state mammal.

Georgia lawmakers are in recess again today: this year’s legislative session is scheduled for adjournment by midnight tomorrow.

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