Athens News

One man has died in a single vehicle traffic accident Memorial Day morning in Oconee County, according to Chief Deputy Lee Weems of the Oconee County Sheriff's Office .

A Stanford tennis player will win the 2012 NCAA Women's Singles Championship on Monday at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, GA.

The first University of Georgia Alumni College, an event offering experiences and learning opportunities for individuals in the UGA community, will be held June 4-7. Sponsored by UGA's College of Education and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UGA, the Alumni College is designed to provide lifelong learners who have valued previous student ... (more)

Deployed Athens Resident Named Hero of the Month Staff Sgt. Paul Norris III, a resident of Athens, assigned to the 648th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, a National Guard Unit out of Columbus, Ga., received recognition for being chosen as "Hero of the Month" at New Kabul Compound , where he is the Base Support Group Billeting Noncommissioned Officer ... (more)

The Ladies Auxiliary VFW Post 3910 of Athens celebrated its 65th anniversary on April 28 at the post home with a program and dinner.

Volunteers need not have any knowledge of bicycle maintenance but must be willing to get their hands dirty repairing, tuning up, cleaning, and outfitting the bikes.

Saturday Night: A fair sky with an overnight low in the mid-upper 60s and some patchy fog possible.

The first of many acts to cement the college town of Athens, GA, as a hotbed of alternative music, the B-52's took their name from the Southern slang for the mile-high bouffant wigs sported by singers Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson, a look emblematic of the band's campy, thrift-store aesthetic.

After vowing to defeat party-switching state Rep. Doug McKillip, R-Athens, for more than a year, Democrats failed to put a candidate against him.

Blackburn raised three children, managed the New York City transit system and served as a Tuskegee Airmen mechanic during World War II.

Asiyah Jackson jumps into the pool at the Bishop Park Pool in Athens, Ga., Saturday, May 26, 2012.

W hen Leo Jensen retired in 1991, he began transforming his yard into a gardener's paradise with a rainbow of flowering plants, striking evergreens, exotic bushes and even a shaded pond for the goldfish.

"How can one believe in him of whom he has not heard? And how can they hear unless someone preaches?" -Romans 10:14 "Close the curtains, Lisa.

Hubee D's recently opened on South Lumpkin Street in Five Points, in the space previously occupied by Marble Slab Creamery, offering Athens a taste of the South Carolina franchise for the first time.

Former members of the Athens League of Women Voters gathered May 18 to celebrate the opening of the Athens League of Women Voters Records Collection at the University of Georgia Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies.

ATHENS, Ga. - A The last two Big 12 women's tennis Players of the Year met on Friday afternoon with a bid to the quarterfinals of the 2012 NCAA Division I Women's Singles Championships on the line at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

ATHENS, Ga. - Illinois senior Dennis Nevolo was knocked out of the NCAA Tournament Friday in the Sweet 16.

A worker moves a desk through the hallways at Gaines Road Elementary School on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 in Athens, Ga.

Freshman Sabrina Santamaria is putting on quite an NCAA Tournament run by advancing to the NCAA women's tennis singles' quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Baylor's Nina Secerbegovic in Athens, Ga.

ATHENS, Ga. - Nebraska's No. 31 ranked doubles team of Christopher Aumueller and Benedikt Lindheim fell 6-1, 6-4 to Virginia's Drew Courtney and Jarmere Jenkins, ranked fifth, in the first round of the NCAA men's doubles championship Thursday.