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Local Private School, Downtown Academy, receives about $3,000 in grant money to fund library upgrades. Athens, GA — First Book UGA and ASHA of Education UGA will upgrade and organize Downtown Academy’s library for inter-city school. Downtown Academy’s parent, Downtown Ministries Inc., provides some of the funding for Downtown Academy from…

Georgia Department of Revenue is taking the ownership of the bar raids that happened Friday and Saturday night. Spokesperson William Gaston sent Grady Newsource the press release not yet shared to the public. The raid was headed by the department with the help of Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol,…

It was a great weekend to be a Georgia Bulldog with wins across the board. Despite losing in doubles play, the No. 11 Georgia Men’s tennis team defeated No. 44 Georgia Tech, 6-1, on Saturday. Georgia’s Men’s basketball team followed with its second straight Southeastern Conference win over the Auburn…

Jury selection in a murder trial began today. Two Athens youths, Telvin T. Fleming and Tyrique Watson, are both charged with murdering an Athens teenager in a drive-by shooting almost two years ago. Jury selection is expected to be finished by this afternoon and the trial will begin tomorrow.

One suspect is in police custody after a planned attack on a pizza delivery man Friday. Athens-Clarke County Police Department have been identified Christopher Burnett, 16 and Termedric Faust, 32 as the two men responsible for the robbery and assault of Robert Collins. Collins is a Papa Johns pizza delivery man and…

ATLANTA-Emory University professors, a Georgia State student, elected state officials, religious leaders, and members of the GunSense Georgia Coalition and Outcry all joined forces to speak out against Georgia House Bill 859 at a press conference this morning at Central Presbyterian Church. Committees in the Georgia General Assembly are now…

A sexual consent rally took to the streets Saturday night at the UGA Arch in response to another rally that was supposed to meet there. Earlier in the week the “neomasculine” blog,” Return of Kings, gained international attention for proposing meetups around the world to promote men’s rights and their…

WATKINSVILLE — Oconee County Commission Chairman Melvin Davis will retire at the end of his term after 16 years of service on the board. “It’s been a great opportunity, [but] at some point in time you feel like you need to spend a little bit of time with yourself and…

Door staff members weren’t the only ones checking ID’s in downtown Athens, Georgia tonight. Agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) entered bars downtown verifying if the patrons were 21 or over with identification to prove it. Flanagan’s bar manager Andrew Davenport witnessed law enforcement personnel…

Venmo, the peer-to-peer payment service operated by PayPal, has now become a payment platform after it opened up to third-party apps and services. The feature is as simple as it sounds. Venmo users can pay inside other apps using the service, much like they might shop and pay using a…