CLASSIC CITY NEWS

By Joe Johnson A 19-year-old student reported that she was raped following last weekend’s University of Georgia football game. The assault allegedly occurred at an off-campus residence following a day that began with a tailgate party at Sanford Stadium and later drinking with the suspect and friends at a downtown bar. She told police that the suspect was not a UGA student and her friends think he might have spiked her drink. “It is currently unknown if any drug was introduced

By Joe Johnson A University of Georgia grad student was found dead in his westside apartment last week, the victim of an apparent suicide. Police making a welfare check found him slumped over in a chair with a revolver in one hand and a guitar in the other. Detectives collected the gun and other items as evidence for their investigation, Ifyou're a college student struggling with suicidal thoughts, reach out now: Call or text 988 (the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline ) or text HOME

By Joe Johnson A University of Georgia student has been hospitalized with severe injuries Saturday night after she fell from an 8th floor window at The Rambler apartments on West Broad Street. “The student was dancing on a couch near a window that was open,” said Athens-Clarke County police Lt. Katie Jenkins. “She fell and landed on the pool deck. At this time, she llis conscious and alert but seriously injured.” of Georgia student has been hospitalized with severe injuries S

By Joe Johnson A University of Georgia student has been hospitalized with severe injuries Saturday night after she fell from an 8th floor window at The Rambler apartments on West Broad Street. “The student was dancing on a couch near a window that was open,” said Athens-Clarke County police Lt. Katie Jenkins. “She fell and landed on the pool deck. At this time, she llis conscious and alert but seriously injured.”

By Joe Johnson Justin Idelle Moore, 44, of South Milledge Avenue, has been charged with beating a dog to death last month. According to police, there is University of Georgia security camera footage that shows Moore punching and kicking the dog, slamming it to the ground and throwing it down a hill. He then carried the injured animal to the Sanford Stadium loading dock, Police had reviewed the footage after a university police officer saw Moore in the loading dock area with

By Joe Johnson A 51-year-old Dearing Street resident reported that while he was walking his dog the night of September 5th on South Finley Street he came across three young men who identified themselves as members of the Chi Phi fraternity who mocked him for the way he called to his dog and threw small rocks, some of which grazed him. A police report labeled the incident as a simple battery.

By Joe Johnson A 21-year-old University of Georgia student reported to police that when walking on the Firefly Trail on September 14th she had an encounter with a “very creepy” man. She hadn’t planned to report it but did so two days later upon reading a story about a similar incident in Classic City News. The student told police that it was on the trail at about 4:30 p.m. near Oconee Street and Winterville Road that she passed a white man who was pacing around and talking t

By Aaron Hale/UGA today From educating future teachers to readying logisticians to preparing doctors, the 56-acre campus at the intersection of Prince and Oglethorpe avenues in Athens’ Normaltown district has been the training ground of a wide array of vital professions. Before it became known as the University of Georgia’s Health Sciences Campus, the site was—at one time or another—the State Normal School, Coordinate College, and the U.S. Navy Supply Corps School. More recen

By Joe Johnson A University of Georgia student has been indicted for strangling and attacking a victim with a cue stick in Boar’s Head Lounge on East Washington Street. He was charged with aggravated assault and aggravated battery, according to the indictment filed Tuesday in Superior Court. Police arrest warrants indicate that the incident happened on April 11th when 19-year-old Benjamin Aaron Franzen grabbed the victim in a chokehold and held it until he went limp He also s

Released by the UGA Performing Arts Center ATHENS, Ga. — Greek mythology gets a thoroughly modern makeover when UGA Presents brings the U.S. premiere of Unmythable, a production of the English theatre company Out of Chaos, to the Morton Theatre for performances Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 5 and 6, at 7:30 p.m. Part of the UGA Presents Into the Myths series, Unmythable is an outrageously physical and irreverent one-hour journey through some of the most famous stories of the anc

Students and first responders honor victims and remember the sacrifices of those who served. The University of Georgia is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with its annual memorial stair climb. A quarter of a century ago, on Sept. 11, 2001, 2,977 people died in a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks. University ROTC students organized the first 9/11 memorial stair climb three years ago to honor those who lost their lives in the attacks. Each y

By Joe Johnson Athens police announced today that they were unable to find evidence that a University of Georgia student had been sexually assaulted last week in the area of City Hall. The 20-year-.old student had woken up on the landing of the building’s staircase with no memory of how she got there during a night of drinking downtown with friends. She later told her roommates that when she woke up there was a homeless man nearby masturbating and her skirt was inside out. Th

By Joe Johnson Athens police announced today that they were unable to find evidence that a University of Georgia student had been sexually assaulted last week in the area of City Hall. The 20-year-.old student had woken up on the landing of the building’s staircase with no memory of how she got there during a night of drinking downtown with friends. She later told her roommates that when she woke up there was a homeless man nearby masturbating and her skirt was inside out. Th

By Joe Johnson Athens police recently arrested a man who was reportedly behaving suspiciously in the heart of the University of Georgia’s Sorority Row. Officers responded at about 8 p.m. on August 16th to investigate a report of a suspicious man sitting in a pickup truck parked in a South Milledge Avenue driveway. Callers to 911 said “they believed he was looking at the females involved in sorority activities in the area,” one of the officers reported, Identified as Mathew

By Joe Johnson Detectives have identified a homeless man as a possible suspect in the sexual assault of a University of Georgia student last week. Police learned about the assault on Friday when the hospital reported that they were treating the victim of an assault that occurred sometime overnight in the area of Athens City Hall. This is an ongoing investigation and police asked for anyone with information regarding the incident to contact Detective Elmore at Giselle.Elmore@a

By Albert DeSimone I happily toiled as a mid-level administrator for the better part of my career at The University of Georgi, where I was a communications director in the IT department with an identity problem. "You don't need to know corn to sell corn flakes.” This old business maxim might resonate with some, but not me. If I was going to “sell” IT services, I felt it necessary to learn about those services. So I did. I acquired a bit of a reputation for my ability to “tal

By Joe Johnson Firefighters are responding to an explosion on the University of Georgia campus. The incident involves what was described as a “main switch gear for a building” on Cedar Street that exploded. CCN will update this story as more information becomes available.

By Joe Johnson An Athens Superior Court grand jury has indicted a man who wore a Nazi uniform when he assaulted a woman last year outside of a downtown bar. Kenneth Leland Morgan, 33, of Appleby Drive in Athens, was charged in the Tuesday indictment with aggravated assault for striking a University of Georgia student in the face with a glass beer mug during an altercation at the entrance of an East Clayton Street bar in October 2025. Dressed in the black Gestapo uniform, he a

Released by the University of Georgia: University of Georgia Professor Margaret Morrison was the first artist featured in the UGA Performing Arts Center's Lobby Gallery in 2024. She returns Aug. 6 with Antiques, a selection of four colorful, outsized canvases depicting displays from Italian antique markets. The exhibition runs through early January with an opening reception at 5 p.m. Aug. 27. Morrison, who has since retired as a professor emerita from the Lamar Dodd School of

By Joy Pope/UGA Today Director Christopher Nolan's new film "The Odyssey" has introduced one of the world's oldest stories to a new audience, prompting renewed discussion around why Homer's epic continues to resonate nearly 2,700 years after it was composed. Charles Platter, professor of classics in the University of Georgia's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, joined WABE's In These Times  with Bill Nigut to discuss the film and the enduring appeal of The Odyssey. After