Today is day two of the four-day Georgia Gang Investigators Association Conference at the Classic Center in downtown Athens.
With a little more than a month to go before the start of the University of Georgia’s fall semester classes, there is an afternoon meeting of UGA’s Staff Council: the virtual session is set to get underway at 2:30.
The University of Georgia Law School unveils a scholarship that will be named in honor of the late Georgia House Speaker David Ralston. Ralston, who died earlier this year, graduated from the UGA School of Law in 1980 as a classmate of current University president Jere Morehead.
The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is hanging out a Help Wanted sign, looking to recruit and hire new deputies, dispatchers, and jail guards for the Sheriff’s Office in Watkinsville.
There was a big turnout for Tuesday’s meeting of the Oconee County Library Board: the Board met at the Library in Watkinsville and heard public feedback on controversial reading material, with the Board deciding that at least one book about a gay teenager should be moved from the children’s to the adult section of the Library on Experiment Station Road.
A murder charge leveled against a Gainesville man is reduced to a count of voluntary manslaughter: the change in charges came this week in Hall County court, where Pedro Valle is accused in last year’s shooting death of Billie Davis. The 37 year-old Davis was killed after an argument at a homeless camp in Gainesville.
A suspect in a July 4 shooting in Hall County has surrendered to Hall County sheriff’s deputies: 28 year-old Emcee Weaver was booked into the Hall County jail. He’s charged firing a shot in a vehicle in Gainesville, wounding a man who was treated at and released from Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville.