Sarah Hammond
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Athens-Clarke County
Local Gun Club Robbed After Thieves Drive Through Front Door
Athens-Clarke County Police are looking for five men who drove a stolen Jeep into the Athens Gun Club early Sunday morning. The surveillance video below shows a red 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee smashing through the front door at around 4:30 a.m. They run through the store grabbing long guns and…
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Athens-Clarke County
UGA Student Recovering in Local Hospital After Milledge Avenue Shooting, Armed Robberies
The University of Georgia student who was shot Monday morning during an armed robbery is still in the hospital, but his condition is improving. Tate Prezzano is recovering at Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center, where his friends and teammates say he is getting better minute by minute. He will remain…
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Athens-Clarke County
Community Reaction: UGA Student Shot During Armed Robbery
Two University of Georgia students were robbed at approximately 7:17 Monday morning. One of those students is currently in a local hospital after the robber shot him in front of a bus stop on South Milledge Avenue in Athens, Ga. A source close to the victim said that he spent…
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Northeast Georgia News
Sweet Olive Farm Owners Committed to Business of Rescuing Animals For Nearly a Decade
Two women in Winterville, Ga., have spent the last nine years rescuing animals from all over the Southeast. Sweet Olive Farm takes in elderly, abused or homeless farm and exotic animals and gives them a home. The Beginning It all started with 10 dogs and a pot-bellied pig named Mr.…
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Health
UGA Researchers First in the World to Genetically Modify Lizards
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…
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Athens-Clarke County
South Carolina Death Prompts Passengers to Rethink Ride-Sharing Safety
Calling an Uber or a Lyft has become a part of our everyday lives. It’s just so easy. But now, a University of South Carolina student is dead after getting into a car that she thought was her Uber. Samantha Josephson’s body was found 90 miles away from Columbia, where…
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Northeast Georgia News
Studio 225 Officially Open to Focus on Entrepreneurship, Innovation at UGA
The Entrepreneurship Certificate Program finally has a permanent home three years after the University of Georgia launched the program. When the program started in 2015, there were only 33 students enrolled. Now, Studio 225 houses more than 500 students who currently participate in the program. They will use the space…
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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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High School Sports
First-Time Girl Wrestler from Jackson County Places Third in State Championship
When one of Bre Lumley’s teachers told her she should join Jackson County High School’s new all-girls wrestling team, she was skeptical. “If you had asked me this time last year if I was going to be wrestling, I would have said you were crazy,” Lumley said. Yet, she decided…
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Athens-Clarke County
How Some Athens Couples Aren’t Letting Their Valentine’s Day Go To Waste
While some couples in the Athens area are planning to spend Valentine’s Day having a nice dinner or seeing a movie, the more unconventional romantics will be spending it learning what happens after they flush their toilets. The Athens-Clarke County Water Reclamation Facility is holding their 5th annual Valentine’s Day…