CLASSIC CITY NEWS

By Joe Johnson Two recent University of Georgia graduates were seriously injured Sunday night when they were attacked by a knife-wielding man at an Athens co...

By Dawn Johnson If you live in Athens or the surrounding counties, you may have noticed all the alert lights flashing on your NOAA Weather Radio because the w...

By Joe Johnson Members of the Georgia National Guard recently conducted free and voluntary COVID-19 testing at the county jail for all Clarke County Sheriff’...

By Lindsey Derrick/UGA Today Social distancing has become the new way of life since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Large gatherings with friends are...

By Joe Johnson An Athens man was arrested early Thursday after a domestic violence incident in which he allegedly threatened his child's mother with a gun, a...

By Joe Johnson Thursday marked three months since 17-year-old Julia Mann went missing from her home in Watkinsville. Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry said t...

By Joe Johnson A pair of gunmen wearing surgical masks robbed a westside business Wednesday night, according to Athens-Clarke County police. At about 9:15p.m...

Since March 16, when Georgia public elementary, secondary, and post-secondary schools ceased in person classes, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Child E...

I am a pediatrician with 21 years of experience.  On Monday, 5/18/20, at Publix on Experiment Station Road, I counted 31 people not wearing masks exiting one...

I totally agreed with U.S. Rep. Jody Hice when he recently wrote that someone must be held accountable for how the coronavirus outbreak has been managed. But...

By Joe Johnson A Madison County man was recently arrested after he stole two guns from a vehicle that was parked at a local convenience store, according to a...

By Joe Johnson A home invader held a gun to the head of a wheelchair-bound Athens man Monday night while accomplices looted the victim's house on Oconee Stre...

By Joe Johnson The chief judge for the Western Judicial Circuit is facing an ethics charge for allegedly calling a man into his chambers and berating him for...

By Joe Johnson An Athens man this week was arrested for a drive-by shooting three months ago at an Athens apartment complex. Phillip Alan Turman, 21, of Wood...

Knowa Johnson, a District 10 candidate for the Athens-Clarke County Commission, will be hosting a “Speak Easy Wednesday" Facebook Live event at 5:30 p.m. tom...

Beginning today, May 18, Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services is re-opening several locations that had been closed due to the coronavirus public health emer...

By Joe Johnson As he has done several times before, Athens artist Ronnie Bernard Hull III today will be creating a portrait of a murder victim in a way that ...

The Clarke County School District is preparing for the official end to our school year, celebrating the Class of 2020, and beginning an untraditional start t...

By Johnnie W. Lewis We’ve hit several states since I last wrote, so strap in and hang on for the “catch up!” And for the next several months (at least until ...