Oglethorpe County News

Two recent letters to the editor , addressing the recent distribution of Bibles by the Gideons at an Oglethorpe County school , demand a response.

The man who shot and killed his former girlfriend then committed suicide Thursday nearly killed a third person as he apparently tried to escape from police.

Athens-Clarke police are investigating a murder-suicide that started with a woman's body found in a parked car about a mile from the University of Georgia campus.

Athens-Clarke police are investigating a murder-suicide that started with a woman's body found in a parked car about a mile from the University of Georgia campus.

The hunt is over for a man who police suspect shot and killed a woman this afternoon in a shopping center parking lot off South Milledge Avenue.

Oglethorpe County is a vote away from finally getting an animal control ordinance and an official to enforce the local law.

A 22-year-old University of Georgia student was trapped in the wreckage of his sport utility vehicle for nearly 90 minutes Monday after he ran off U.S. Highway 78 and hit a tree in Eastern Oglethorpe County.

Oglethorpe County road department worker Neil Farnsworth, left, watches Joe McCannon excavate Friday where a section of Walter Sams Road was washed out from the recent heavy rains.

Madison County Code Enforcement Officer Jack Huff kneels outside of a Colbert home where he served an animal complaint recently.

It's difficult for me to believe the front-page headline in the Oct. 14 edition of the Banner-Herald that read, "Passing out of Bibles protested." According to the story, an Oglethorpe County parent complained because his fifth-grade daughter came home from school with a Bible.

Patrons work at computer stations Friday at the Athens-Clarke County Library on Baxter Street.

Let's be honest here. It's not for nothing this part of the country has earned the nickname "buckle of the Bible belt." Wednesday-night church suppers, Sunday school and Bible studies long have been a part of the social and cultural fabric of the South, coloring it as surely and completely as the dust of its red clay soil.

A tractor-trailer truck bumped a pickup and sent it into an oncoming car, triggering a collision that killed three Rayle men Thursday morning between Crawford and Lexington in Oglethorpe County.

A former Oglethorpe County youth minister is under arrest for alleged child molestation.

Three people in a pickup were killed shortly before dawn today in a collision with a tractor-trailer truck and a car on U.S. Highway 78 between Crawford and Lexington in Oglethorpe County.

A former Oglethorpe County youth minister who was acquitted three years ago of charges that he molested a teenage girl was arrested last week, once again on child molestation charges.

FOLK and PLACE will host the second annual Fall Apple Festival from 1 p.m. "until the campfire dies" Saturday at Grove Creek Farm.

A Winder man died Saturday morning after a rattlesnake bit him while he was hunting in Oglethorpe County with his grandson.

A Civil War soldier whose remains were found in a battlefield grave last spring was reburied Saturday by admirers who knew neither his name nor even what side he fought on.

The Oglethorpe County Chamber of Commerce will host the first in a new series of business roundtables open to the public tonight at 7. The roundtable, at the Depot in Crawford, will touch on insurance and workers' compensation, overcoming false claims, reducing premiums, and an employer's legal requirements and rights.