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Athens-Clarke County
UGA Criminal Justice Program Changes Everything You Know About the ‘Typical’ Student
For spring 2019, 15 University of Georgia students spent their semester inside the Athens-Clarke County jail, but not as inmates. One by one, they walk through the Athens-Clarke County Jail metal detector, allowed to bring only a pen and class materials into the facility. The students empty their pockets, leaving…
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Athens-Clarke County
‘For It Not To Look the Same, It Hurts’: UGA Students Devastated After Tornadoes Hit Their Communities
As Alabama and Georgia residents pick up the pieces from Sunday’s devastating tornadoes, University of Georgia students from the affected communities are still processing what happened, knowing their loved ones were in harm’s way. Brittany Davis is an agricultural education student at the University of Georgia and a Talbotton, Georgia, resident.…
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Athens-Clarke County
Pregnant Women in Georgia Face the Opioid Crisis
Georgia’s number of confirmed cases of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, a withdrawal condition babies may experience due to prenatal exposure to opioids, almost doubled from 2016 to 2017, according to a statewide Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome summary conducted by the Georgia Department of Public Health. Karen Kuehn Howell, assistant professor at…
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Athens-Clarke County
Jury Trials Fade as Plea Bargains Remain The Norm Both Locally and Nationally
The public defender’s office for Athens-Clarke and Oconee counties handles thousands of cases in a given year, but the overwhelming majority of those cases will never see the inside of a courtroom. Most cases are resolved through plea bargaining, a process in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in…
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Athens-Clarke County
Athens Police Adopt New Software To Help Locate 911 Calls
A new computer software has the potential to allow the Athens-Clarke County Police Department to locate 9-1-1 callers more quickly and effectively. It’s called RapidSOS, and it was free for the department. Jonathan Jones, who works for Athens Police, said 90 percent of 9-1-1 calls come from cell phones, and…
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Athens-Clarke County
UGA Pacemaker Program Gives Dogs a Second Chance
Agent Cooper, an 11-year-old husky, is thriving today thanks to his new pacemaker. He belongs to Matthew and Amanda Goldstein, an Athens couple who faced a critical decision. Agent Cooper was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and had weeks to live unless he had a costly and risky procedure. I was…
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Athens-Clarke County
Athens-Clarke County Library Becomes First Trauma-Informed Library In Georgia
The Athens-Clarke County Library and the University of Georgia School of Social Work have been working together since October to transform the ACC Library into the first trauma-informed library in the state. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, staff in a trauma-informed library understand that trauma…
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Athens-Clarke County
The Season That Never Ends: Cornhole ATL Welcomes Athens Competitors Year-round
The game cornhole dots the Athens landscape every Saturday during football season, but the rest of the year, it can be hard to find. One organization is working to change that. Jeff Brawand, an Ohio native looking for a way to keep playing his favorite game in a new city,…
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Athens-Clarke County
Georgia Supreme Court: Refusing to Submit to DUI Test Can’t be Used in Trial
…Your refusal to submit to the required testing may be offered into evidence against you at trial. This is part of what drivers hear from officers while being read Georgia’s implied consent notice. Now, this statement will have to be reconsidered, after the Georgia Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to…
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Athens-Clarke County
UGA Student Catches Coyote On Video On East Side of Athens
A University of Georgia student couldn’t believe what he saw when he spotted a coyote off International Drive on Saturday afternoon. Hunter Smith was driving on the east side of Athens near the University Veterinary Medical Center when he spotted a large and unfamiliar animal. “I saw what I thought…