Another Athens-Clarke County Commission budget hearing is on tap for today, 5:30 this afternoon at the Government Building on Dougherty Street. It’s the second of three public forums required by state law.
The Clarke County School Board meets this evening: it’s a 6 o’clock session at school district headquarters off Mitchell Bridge Road. The Board will get an update on the Clarke County School District charter school proposal. A Board vote on the plan to convert the system to an all-charter school district is expected in June.
The Board of Trustees for the University of Georgia Real Estate Foundation meets this afternoon in Atlanta, 1 o’clock at UGA’s Terry Center.
Athens-Clarke County Police arrest a sexual assault suspect: Horace Wise is 53 years old. A woman tells police investigators he assaulted her while she slept on a couch. There are now arrests in that recent rash of robberies in downtown Athens: Athens-Clarke County Police say they’ve rounded up five suspects who are accused in two robberies. Police say four of the five are teenagers; two of the teens are juveniles. Investigators say they appear to be responsible for some, but not all, of the robberies that have occurred in the downtown area in the past several weeks.
A lotta pot in Elbert County: 31 year-old Roderick Hester was arrested at a mobile home park in Elberton, caught with what Elbert County Sheriff’s Office investigators say was $4,500 worth of marijuana, more than a pound of pot for the suspect who was booked into and subsequently bonded out of the Elbert County Detention Center.
It is an expansion project that is now on hold: Madison County Commissioners voted this week to delay until later this year a decision on how to proceed with plans to expand the Madison County jail. Banks County Commissioners hold another budget work session today in Homer.
A man accused of abducting a woman in Virginia is arrested in Hart County: suspect Horatio Boyzo is from Fairfax Virginia. He’s accused of taking a 21 year-old woman from her home in Fairfax. He and she were spotted by Georgia State Troopers at a restaurant on I-85 near Hartwell. She’s safe; he was booked into the Hart County jail to await extradition to Virginia. We have this morning the name of the person killed in a Tuesday afternoon car crash in Stephens County: Reed Haga was 21 years old, driving one of the three vehicles that piled up on Highway 106 near Toccoa. A Georgia State Patrol investigation is ongoing.
A Gainesville City Council work session is set for 9 this morning, while Hall County Commissioners meet, 6 o’clock at the Hall County Government Center in Gainesville.
Sexual harassment allegations have been leveled against the mayor of Brookhaven: the Brookhaven city attorney is investigating the charges against Mayor Max Davis. Six people injured in Atlanta: a MARTA bus collides with freight train. It happened Wednesday afternoon at a rail crossing in East Point. Atlanta Police say five passengers and the MARTA bus driver were hospitalized with what were described as non life-threatening injuries. Another school investigation in Atlanta: after the trials of convictions of Atlanta Public School System educators and administrators accused of changing student answers on standardized tests come allegations that an APS principal is changing grades.
15 years in prison for a 37 year-old man in Muscogee County: a guilty plea from child molestation suspect Paul Neidinger, accused of fondling two 5 year-old girls in Columbus. While the work continues in Burke County, regulators say more delays are possible in the construction of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle.
100 more jobs for Georgia: Jenkins County gets an aluminum extrusion company. MI Metals will set up shop in Millen.
A 4 year-old boy is pronounced dead in a hospital in Hinesville after what investigators say was an accidental drowning in Ludowici. Lawsuits now filed in the wake of last month’s multi-vehicle pile-up on I-16 in Bryan County: the parents of three of the five Georgia Southern University nursing students who were killed in the wreck have filed suit against two truck drivers and the companies that hired them.
He upheld death sentences while he served on the state’s highest court: now former Georgia Supreme Court Justice Norman Fletcher is calling for the abolition of the death penalty in Georgia. Fletcher says it is not applied fairly or consistently.
Another Athens-Clarke County Commission budget hearing is on tap for today, 5:30 this afternoon at the Government Building on Dougherty Street. It’s the second of three public forums required by state law.
The Clarke County School Board meets this evening: it’s a 6 o’clock session at school district headquarters off Mitchell Bridge Road. The Board will get an update on the Clarke County School District charter school proposal. A Board vote on the plan to convert the system to an all-charter school district is expected in June.
The Board of Trustees for the University of Georgia Real Estate Foundation meets this afternoon in Atlanta, 1 o’clock at UGA’s Terry Center.
Athens-Clarke County Police arrest a sexual assault suspect: Horace Wise is 53 years old. A woman tells police investigators he assaulted her while she slept on a couch.
There are now arrests in that recent rash of robberies in downtown Athens: Athens-Clarke County Police say they've rounded up five suspects who are accused in two robberies. Police say four of the five are teenagers; two of the teens are juveniles. Investigators say they appear to be responsible for some, but not all, of the robberies that have occurred in the downtown area in the past several weeks.
A lotta pot in Elbert County: 31 year-old Roderick Hester was arrested at a mobile home park in Elberton, caught with what Elbert County Sheriff’s Office investigators say was $4,500 worth of marijuana, more than a pound of pot for the suspect who was booked into and subsequently bonded out of the Elbert County Detention Center.
It is an expansion project that is now on hold: Madison County Commissioners voted this week to delay until later this year a decision on how to proceed with plans to expand the Madison County jail.
Banks County Commissioners hold another budget work session today in Homer.
A man accused of abducting a woman in Virginia is arrested in Hart County: suspect Horatio Boyzo is from Fairfax Virginia. He's accused of taking a 21 year-old woman from her home in Fairfax. He and she were spotted by Georgia State Troopers at a restaurant on I-85 near Hartwell. She's safe; he was booked into the Hart County jail to await extradition to Virginia.
We have this morning the name of the person killed in a Tuesday afternoon car crash in Stephens County: Reed Haga was 21 years old, driving one of the three vehicles that piled up on Highway 106 near Toccoa. A Georgia State Patrol investigation is ongoing.
A Gainesville City Council work session is set for 9 this morning, while Hall County Commissioners meet, 6 o’clock at the Hall County Government Center in Gainesville.
Sexual harassment allegations have been leveled against the mayor of Brookhaven: the Brookhaven city attorney is investigating the charges against Mayor Max Davis.
Six people injured in Atlanta: a MARTA bus collides with freight train. It happened Wednesday afternoon at a rail crossing in East Point. Atlanta Police say five passengers and the MARTA bus driver were hospitalized with what were described as non life-threatening injuries.
Another school investigation in Atlanta: after the trials of convictions of Atlanta Public School System educators and administrators accused of changing student answers on standardized tests come allegations that an APS principal is changing grades.
15 years in prison for a 37 year-old man in Muscogee County: a guilty plea from child molestation suspect Paul Neidinger, accused of fondling two 5 year-old girls in Columbus.
While the work continues in Burke County, regulators say more delays are possible in the construction of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle.
100 more jobs for Georgia: Jenkins County gets an aluminum extrusion company. MI Metals will set up shop in Millen.
A 4 year-old boy is pronounced dead in a hospital in Hinesville after what investigators say was an accidental drowning in Ludowici.
Lawsuits now filed in the wake of last month's multi-vehicle pile-up on I-16 in Bryan County: the parents of three of the five Georgia Southern University nursing students who were killed in the wreck have filed suit against two truck drivers and the companies that hired them.
He upheld death sentences while he served on the state’s highest court: now former Georgia Supreme Court Justice Norman Fletcher is calling for the abolition of the death penalty in Georgia. Fletcher says it is not applied fairly or consistently.
