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Athens-Clarke County
Rape in Athens
Reporter Morgan Weeks is at the Athens-Clarke County police station investigating a rape that occurred yesterday.
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Athens-Clarke County
A New Type of Boutique is Rolling into Athens
Two local women have decided to create a "rolling runway" in order to sell prom and formal wear to people in Athens. Tune it at 5 to learn more.
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High School Sports
Sports for March 5th
ATHENS, Ga- Sports Reporter Anna Tarullo gives you all of your sports updates for today.
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Athens-Clarke County
Alcohol Bill Would Lower Punishments for Underage Drinking
ATHENS, Ga- A bill that would change how underage drinking is handled in the state of Georgia is now one step closer to becoming law. Advocates of the bill believe that the current law is ruining young people’s lives. It passed unanimously through its Senate committee just yesterday. Senate Bill…
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Athens-Clarke County
Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention
ATHENS, Ga- The Rape and Sexual Violence Prevention Student Group is taking credit for more sexual assaults being reported on campus, because more incidents being reported means their efforts to educate the community are working. 5 times more rapes were reported on UGA’s campus this past year than the year…
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Athens-Clarke County
Dog Foster Program
ATHENS, Ga- Becca Marrick has been a “dog person” ever since she can remember. “My family has been fostering ever since we were little…my parents wanted to see if me and my sister could handle pets.” Marrick picked up these four Labrador-Basset Hound mixes at the Athens Humane Society on…
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Athens-Clarke County
Help a Child Smile
ATHENS, Ga- Smiles may be a little brighter today at Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School. The Help A Child Smile Dental Van made their third visit of the year to the middle school to help clean students teeth. This traveling dental van stopped here to checkup on 50 students teeth this morning.…
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Athens-Clarke County
Why It’s Hard to End the “R” Word
Words can hurt people, or they can empower them. Grady Newsource Reporter Kendall Trammell found out that it takes people who aren't directly affected by the words to start the change.
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Environment
New Bill Could End Effort to Ban Plastic Bags
A bill has been passed by the senate of the Georgia General Assembly that would prevent local governments from passing laws that would ban or fine plastic bags sales.
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In-Depth
Biomedical Firm Employee Leaves Job to Pursue Poetry
Buddy Wakefield, a two-time world poet champion, left his career at a biomedical firm to become a poet. He sat down with Reporter Kevni Woodside to talk about his decision to leave the lucrative field.