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Get together with your lunch bunch and munch on Lunch Bites:   When you’re walking to your table and drop your tray, you need a second chance.  That’s what National Reentry Week is all about. This week the United States Department of Justice is hosting National Reentry Week that encourages previously…

Athens, GA– Athens Clarke County Police department wants you to follow this downtown surveillance carefully. The night of April 21st started as a quiet Downtown Athens night, until an unknown person robbed an apartment above Branded Butcher on N. Lumpkin Street. This is a break into the armed robbery that…

Jackson County, Ga.- Volunteer firefighter, scoutmaster, district commissioner, and farmer. Jackson County Board of Commissioners Chairman Tom Crow has been all of these and more during his long career. Reporter Corey Knapp tells us that no matter his title, Crow always puts his county first. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6cVR8lXNvc&w=640&h=360] The vote for…

Here at Grady Newsource, it is the LAST class for the Monday/Wednesday news-team. We have loved our time here and learned a lot. Here is the last “5 Things to Watch Wednesday” (p.s: tune in LIVE @5PM for our last show!) No Guns Please- Yet another anti-campus carry rally will take…

Today, The Keep the G Gun Free organization will host a ‘Veto Campus Carry Rally’ at the Arch at 5 PM. The organization is protesting House Bill 859 that is better known as the Campus Carry Bill. Currently, the bill has passed in the Georgia House and Senate and remains…

A man injured in a deputy involved shooting is out of the hospital and now in jail. 38 year old John Martin was released from Athens Regional hospital at 1 PM this afternoon. At 1:30 PM, he was already locked up in the Oconee County Jail. Corporal Adam Thrower and…

North Oconee Titans boys’ soccer team starts its playoff run tonight. They will play against Woodward Academy in Atlanta, who is ranked 2nd in their region. The Titans are currently (12-4) overall and (6-1) in region.   The Clarke Central Gladiators boys’ soccer team travel west of Atlanta to face…

Police are currently looking for a team of armed robbers that has already hit two Athens drug stores. Lieutenant Tyndell believes the two robberies have a connection. He says, “This is not a common type of robbery and to have two in 10 days with that many similarities in the…

By: Jaron Matthews

Anthony “Zippy” Morocco (86), a University of Georgia sports star in the ’50s, committed suicide on Sunday. Chris Morocco, Zippy’s son, said his father fought with depression and a mental disorder called Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Boston University’s CTE center defines CTE as “a progressive degenerative disease of the brain found…