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Since 2007, the number of DUI arrests in Athens-Clarke County has decreased steadily from 827 cases in 2007 to just 350 cases in 2018. Two factors may contribute to this decline: a decline in the number of police officers and fewer people choosing to drive drunk.   Since 2016, the…

The Athens-Clarke County Commission and mayor plan to eliminate bail for local ordinance violations. “We’re talking about the elimination of bail and bond for crimes that are generally a misdemeanor, non-violent, non-problematic sorts of things where we’re not putting the public at risk,” said Athens-Clarke County Mayor Kelly Girtz. He…

Athens Clarke County residents can now file incident reports digitally. It’s important we have officers out there actually doing the policing,” said County Manager Blaine Williams. Benefits of Digital Reports Officers no longer have to come to the police department lobby to take a report, a process that takes them…

The University of Georgia women’s golf team hopes to gain momentum this weekend at the 47th Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic. The team is winless in the regular season for the first time since 2013-2014. The Liz Murphey will give the Bulldogs one last chance to win in the regular season…

For the first time ever, a lizard has been successfully genetically modified, and it happened right here at the University of Georgia. James Lauderdale, Douglas Menke and the rest of their team in UGA’s department of genetics have been working on this for the last two years. Now, they are…

A nationwide shortage of Emergency Medical Service personnel has swept the nation, including counties all across Georgia. Because of these shortages, EMS workers in affected areas have had to work a lot of overtime, and in extreme cases, ambulances have had to stop operations for lack of employees. In Madison…

It looked like April LaLand-Sentmanat had no way out. Terrified for her 10-year prison sentence, LaLand-Sentmanat decided to put her faith in the Georgia Justice Project. After 30 years, the Georgia Justice Project (GJP) continues to provide legal defense, social support, and employment opportunities to people convicted of crimes in…