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By Joe Johnson Emergency personnel this morning responded to a collision between a school bus and car on the Athens Perimeter. It happened at about 7:15 a.m. on the highway’s outer loop between Chase Street and Prince Avenue. Children were on board the bus at the time, but none reported being injured, The driver of the car was transported by ambulance to the hospital with unknown injuries.
By Joe Johnson Brianna Morgan Hill, 26, of Loganville, was arrested last week by police who responded to a report she was screaming inside a vehicle for about 30 minutes in downtown Athens. Police said they received the 911 call at 2;49 a.m. on August13th and when officers found the woman in her SUV on East Clayton Street they could hear her still screaming. They observed the vehicle pull out of a…
(ACCFD) By Joe Johnson Emergency personnel this morning responded to a collision between a school bus and car on the Athens Perimeter. It happened at about 7:15 a.m. on the highway’s outer loop between Chase Street and Prince Avenue. Children were on board the bus at the time, but none reported being injured, The driver of the car was transported by ambulance to the hospital with unknown injuries.
Photo by Mandy King By Joe Johnson Emergency personnel this morning responded to a collision between a school bus and car on the Athens Perimeter. It happened at about 7:15 a.m. on the highway’s outer loop between Chase Street and Prince Avenue, Police, fire and EMS responded to the scene, but it was not immediately known if any children had been on the bus. This story will be updated when more…
By Joe Johnson An employee at the county tag office on Lexington Road was arrested this week following an investigation of suspected fraud. The investigation was launched on August 7th when the county tax Commissioner JP Lemay advised the Athens-Clarke County Police Department that 54-year-old Lilia Banderas-Lozano had committed theft by falsifying a vehicle title transfer document. A county audit…
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By Joe Johnson Terry Bernard Ball Jr., 38, of Simmons Street, has been indicted for shooting a man last month on The Block, a popular hangout in east Athens. On July 17th he committed assault with a deadly weapon “by shooting Mario Orlando Baker in the butt,” states the indictment filed in Superior Court last week. The incident happened at around 12:30 a.m. when Ball shot Baker at the corner of…
By Joe Johnson Two men have been indicted on drug and gun charges. Jamarvin Deontae Graves, 39, of Sayemore Drive, and Tristan Pierre Knox, 38, of Atlanta, have each been charged with trafficking methamphetamine and trafficking fentanyl, according to the indictment filed last week in Superior Court, Knox was additionally charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The indictment…
By T.W. Burger It was built somewhere around 1917, the same year my father was born and while the U.S. threw itself into World War One, also known as The Last War. As if. It was a gift from a schoolteacher aunt when I was 15. I like to think she gave it to me because she recognized in me a writer taking root. More likely, she had decided nobody would ever be able to decipher my handwriting. It was…
An AMBER Alert has been issued by the Atlanta Police Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for two missing children believed to be in extreme danger. Norah Cooper: 11-month-old black female with black hair and brown eyes; last seen wearing a pink onesie. Zola Cooper: 4-year-old female with black hair and brown eyes; last seen wearing a multi-colored Abducted by Lakesha Brown. Last…
