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Apparently confusing The Monitor 's Civil War references with a sympathy for the rebel states, a fan brought Confederate flags to a Titus Andronicus show in Athens, Georgia, on Wednesday and proceeded to hand them out to the crowd during the band's performance of "A More Perfect Union." It made frontman Patrick Stickles "made enuff 2 kill," he ... (more)

Eating and playing outdoors this time of year are two of life's great pleasures.

As the chief songwriter and creative force behind Of Montreal, Kevin Barnes has built a career out of following his own instincts.

Strong storms and tornadoes ripped through rural parts of Hood County, TX, Wednesday, killing at least six people.

Georgia legislators who want to sit in the president's suite above the hedges at Sanford Stadium next year will have to pay their own way, thanks to ethics legislation signed by Gov.

Officers responded to the 43-year-old woman's home after she called 911 at 6:50 p.m. and told a dispatcher she was writing a suicide note and after finishing it planned to "blow her brains out" with a gun, police said.

A Hall County man Wednesday night drove his pickup truck more than 10 miles on the wrong side of a four-lane highway before he was stopped by police near downtown Athens.

Athens-Clarke police are looking for a suspect in a westside armed robbery Wednesday night, several hours after they arrested a man for an attempted hold-up downtown.

LabCorp has two openings for phlebotomists in the Athens area, one a full-time position and the other part-time. Applicants should have a high school diploma or GED, as well as a phlebotomy certification from an accredited agency.

Retail gas prices remained relatively stable last week as oil prices yo-yoed, according to AAA.

Avis Inez Edwards Nunnally of Chattanooga, TN, formerly of Athens, GA, died on May 13, 2013, in Chattanooga.

JOHN McGAHERN writer at his home. i 1 2Photo by Derek Speirs NUI Galway and Leitrim County Council will host the seventh International Seminar on John McGahern, commemorating the work of the renowned Irish writer, from Thursday May 23 - Sunday May 25 in the county.

Twelve people were arrested for selling counterfeit items during a raid Saturday at J&J Flea Market.

A week of poetry reading and discussion of the poetic craft including five Georgia poets will be hosted by University of Georgia College of Education professor Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor June 6-13 at 7 p.m. at the Globe in downtown Athens.

It costs $1,090 less to get a colonoscopy in Clarke County than in Barrow County.

My grandmother's house, a blue clapboard siding domicile that I remember with greater detail than my multiple childhood homes, overlooks Bedeque Bay, a body of water tucked into Prince Edward Island on which her husband's lobster boat floated and where the Summerside oyster grows underneath.

Family members of a Woodstock teen critically injured in a February hit-and-run in Athens say despite a recent downturn in her recovery, she is scheduled to return home later this month.

The Athens Downtown Development Authority voted Tuesday to renew its parking management agreement with Athens-Clarke County, despite concerns from one board member and changes to an earlier draft.

The K-12 school has openings for 1,000 students throughout the state for the upcoming school year and a maximum enrollment of 3,000 students.

Nicole Mays, a special education teacher at Kennedy Elementary, said she started Camp Mays five years ago simply because she wanted to see more of the kids she was teaching in school.