Wednesday, January 14th

Economists in the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business begin their annual swing around the state today: they are in Savannah, offering their coastal Georgia economic forecast in an economic outlook luncheon that takes place at the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center. It gets underway at 11 o’clock this morning.

UGA’s spring semester study abroad program fair begins at noon in the Tate Center: More than 30 faculty-led study abroad programs will represent a variety of academic fields and locations.

A University of Georgia student housing fair is on tap for today, underway at 10 o’clock at the Tate Student Center: UGA says it’s designed to showcase student housing options.

There’s an afternoon meeting of the University of Georgia Staff Council, underway at 2:30 in the University’s Miller Learning Center.

Today’s campus blood drive: 10 til 3 at the University of Georgia’s Science Library.

A Winder man is arrested in Barrow County, charged in a shooting in Athens: 24 year-old Ronald Duke is accused of shooting and wounding a man at a motel off Atlanta Highway in Athens, an October shooting that happened during what police say was an attempted robbery.

The Georgia Bulldogs are again a top 10 team: the Dogs finished 9^th in the final Associated Press poll of the 2014 college football season. The Bulldogs were 10 and 3 on the campaign that ended with a December Belk Bowl win over Louisville, a game played in Charlotte.

Former Georgia Bulldog running back Todd Gurley hires an agent to guide his entry into the National Football League: he’ll go with the firm headed by music star Jay Z.

The Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services Department is looking for candidates to fill two vacancies on the Oconee Rivers Greenway Commission.  Deadline to apply is January 30.

Athens-Clarke County Police arrest a 24 year-old woman on drug charges: Brittany Streetman was picked up by police after a traffic stop on Lexington Road, caught with what police drug agents say were cocaine and hydrocodone.

It is popping up in Elbert County and elsewhere across northeast Georgia: a familiar scam that resurfaces almost every year as tax season approaches. The Elbert County Sheriff’s Office says callers are claiming to be IRS representatives, soliciting tax payments over the phone. Investigators say that is not how the real IRS operates.

Investigators in the Hall County Sheriff’s Office say the December death of a man who was hit by a train has been ruled a suicide. Shon Morrison was 40 years old, from Gainesville. He was hit by a Norfolk Southern freight train in Oakwood.

Police say there are now confessions from three suspects in the December driveway murder of Brian Whitfield, the 45 year-old who was shot outside his home in Auburn, killed in what Gwinnett County police say was a robbery.

It happened in Rockdale County: a pack of coyotes killed a Conyers police dog.

It happened at a plant in Pickens County: a worker, crushed to death by falling blocks of marble.

NCR is moving again: the company that made national news by relocating from Dayton Ohio to Gwinnett Count is moving now to midtown Atlanta.

19 people from a church in Atlanta, injured when a van rolled over on an interstate in St. Lucie County Florida.

A new report on the subsidies used to entice Mercedes Benz to metro Atlanta: the AJC says it amounts to about $23 million. It will mean somewhere between 800 and a thousand jobs when Mercedes moves its U.S. corporate headquarters from New Jersey to Sandy Springs.

No ruling Tuesday from a judge listening to a dispute involving the family of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his Nobel Peace Prize medal and Bible: the family argument, ongoing as Atlanta and the U.S. prepare to observe next week’s King holiday.

Job cuts in Richmond County: 700 layoffs when a call center closes in Augusta.

The first execution of the year in the United States was carried out last night in Georgia: Andrew Brannan was put to death at the state prison in Jackson, his punishment for the 1998 murder of Laurens County Sheriff’s Deputy Kyle Dinkheller, who was gunned down in a traffic stop on I-16 near Dublin, shot nine times.

Governor Nathan Deal delivers his State of the State speech today, an 11 o’clock address to a joint session of the Georgia House and Senate.