CLASSIC CITY NEWS

By Joe Johnson A University of Georgia student died this week in a hotel room near downtown Athens. Brooke Ashley Williams, 19, was found...

Ryan Thomas Canolty By Joe Johnson An autopsy has been ordered for the unexplained death of a 50-year-old man who died in his apartment...

Released this afternoon by the Clarke County Sheriff’s Office: On the morning of April 22, 2025, at approximately 7:55 AM, while...

The charred ruins of the house where John Willcutts perished last week By Joe Johnson County fire officials have determined where the...

Firefighters working at the fatal house fire By Joe Johnson A 62-year-old man died last week after being pulled from his burning house on...

By Joe Johnson A 62-year-old man died last week after being pulled from his burning house on Winterville Road. John Francis Willcuts was...

Frank Perry Williams NOTE: The family members of Frank Williams said the woman he lived with was his girlfriend, not his wife as she...

The Banks County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the deaths of two unborn children at a home and also looking into the way deputies...

By Joe Johnson A 3-month-old boy died Sunday morning after he was found unresponsive in bed at his home on Tallassee Road. The child’s...

By Joe Johnson The pedestrian who was killed Monday night on Lexington Road has been identified as 68-year-old Ronald Brown of Athens....

By Joe Johnson Authorities are investigating the death of a man whose body was discovered last weekend outside of a University of Georgia...

By Joe Johnson The woman whose body was found Feb. 15 in the North Oconee River Park was identified today as 42-year-old Claudia Parks of...

By Joe Johnson The body of an unidentified woman was found Saturday in the North Oconee River Park. Authorities are hoping that her...

By Joe Johnson Two teenagers from Winder were killed over the weekend when they were involved in a Hall County traffic accident. Dinu...

By Joe Johnson Authorities still don’t know how a 40-year-old man ended up dead last month in his home in the Athens Gardens apartment...

By Joe Johnson A 72-year-old woman recently died in her home from choking on a piece of bread. Police officers responded to her Old...

(File) By Joe Johnson A teenager in the Nellie B community last week called 911 to report that her older brother and sister were...

By Joe Johnson An Athens woman was killed Wednesday afternoon when she she lost control of her vehicle on an icy roadway and it struck...

John Fitzhugh Orchard By Joe Johnson An Athens man was arrested on Tuesday for vehicular homicide in connection with a collision last...

Charles Angelo Barrett By Joe Johnson An Oglethorpe County man has been charged with murder for the overdose death last summer of a man...