Athens News

There's a new car seat hitting the market that parents are sure to want to check out.

After years of planning, construction nearly is complete on a new farm for the University of Georgia's livestock herds on a slice of land near the border of Oglethorpe and Clarke counties.

The case of a valuable antique cello that mysteriously disappeared from an Athens music shop ended with an unexpected coda this week.

The woman who took an idea to match Clarke County students with influential adult mentors and persuaded members of the community to volunteer is stepping down after 20 years on the job.

Watching "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" never will be the same for one group of Athens-area middle school students.

Watching "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" never will be the same for one group of Athens-area middle school students.

Chicago's Fullerton Avenue wasn't named after him. But Leo Fender would not have succeeded without him.

Representatives of Chi Phi have submitted a proposal to turn the historic Arnocroft House on the corner of Milledge Avenue and Rutherford Street into a fraternity house.

The Scholarship Gala Committee at the Athens Masonic Temple will present at fish fry from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, 496 Reese St.

Barrelling out of the Banner-Herald's photo vault this week - much like he did over Bill Bates on the Neyland Stadium goal line in 1980 - is former Georgia running back Herschel Walker.

Athens won't let its Navy Supply Corps School go without saying goodbye - 57 days of goodbyes to mark the school's 57 years in Athens.

A gunman pistol-whipped a man outside his home early Thursday while the robber's accomplices searched the man's pockets and made off with $2,000 he said he'd just won playing the Georgia Lottery.

Water is supposed to be blue, but not this blue. http://images.morris.com/images/athens/mdControlled/cms/2010/07/30/688303062.jpg DAVID MANNING Chemicals released during a fire Wednesday that destroyed a chemical plant in Northeastern Clarke County turn the waters of Trail Creek a bright blue Thursday.

Allen Osborne didn't play at Georgia, but he keeps coming back to Athens like he was born here.

Investigators on Thursday decided it was too dangerous for anyone to enter the remains of a chemical plant that was destroyed by fire the day before in Northeastern Clarke County.

PALIN PATROL: The July 19 edition of The Editor's Desk - in which I suggested the engagement of Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, and the father of Bristol's child, Levi Johnston, was engineered by Sarah Palin as preparation for a 2012 presidential bid - certainly captured some reader attention.

A bystander photographs contaminated water in Trail Creek near downtown Athens today.

Oconee County commissioners are taking another look at consolidating county departments at the Government Annex on Greensboro Highway.

These Georgia lotteries were drawn Wednesday: Cash 3 8-4-0 Cash 4 8-1-0-0 Fantasy 5 Estimated jackpot: $214,000 Mega Millions Estimated jackpot: $33 million Midday 3 3-3-5 Midday 4 4-6-1-2 Powerball 01-11-20-25-27, Powerball: 2, Power Play: 5 Win For Life 04-06-27-36-39-40, Free Ball: 22 WANT TO COMMENT? Comments are not edited and don't represent ...

Mitch Schrader, former Clarke County Tax Commissioner Nancy Denson's hand-picked successor, will remain on the job until at least 2013.