Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Mortgage fraud is 'cancer' plaguing the Atlanta area
ATLANTA - Ann Fulmer was suspicious about houses in her Stone Mountain neighborhood that sold for extraordinary prices only to fall badly into disrepair, especially in the late 1990s before the Atlanta metro area real estate boom.

Monday, May 1, 2006
Mortgage fraud makes victims of Athens homeowners
ATHENS, Ga. - When Amanda Senentz bought into the Milford Hills subdivision in December 2003, she envisioned living with nature trails nearby and a clubhouse with a pool across the street.

Saturday, April 22, 2006
Woman indicted in molestation
ATHENS, Ga. - A Clarke County grand jury has indicted a Carlton woman on child molestation and other charges for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old boy in a public park.

Saturday, Feb. 25, 2006
Man wins suit in police chase
ATHENS, Ga. - A Clarke County jury awarded nearly $134,000 to a 22-year-old Athens college student who claimed an Athens-Clarke County police officer was partly to blame for injuries he suffered when a fleeing suspect crashed into the student's car three years ago.

Friday, Feb. 24, 2006
E-mail transfer at UGA leads to felony charges
ATHENS, Ga. - A 38-year-old Loganville woman has been accused of hacking into the e-mail account of a University of Georgia professor who resigned last year as dean of UGA's Grady College over a sexual harassment allegation.

Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006
Alcohol arrests at UGA double figure from '05
ATHENS, Ga. - University of Georgia police this year have made twice the number of alcohol-related arrests than they did during the same period in 2005.

Monday, Jan. 16, 2006
Laws against masks carry weight again
ATHENS, Ga. - Legislators passed the law more than half a century ago to fight racist terrorism, but local police and prosecutors are dusting off that same law and using it to prosecute modern-day criminals.

Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005

Clarke County trial is its first under anti-gang statute
ATHENS, Ga. - Street gangs may have formed in Athens more for social status and companionship than for committing crimes, but that doesn't make them any less dangerous, a prosecutor told jurors at the start of the trial of the first person prosecuted in Clarke County under the state's anti-gang law.

Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005
Body parts are stolen from crypt
ATHENS, Ga. - Thieves broke into a 19th century mausoleum at an historic Athens cemetery and stole a skull and other body parts from two of the caskets in the crypt, Athens-Clarke police said.

Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005
Attorney says crime scene was changed
ATHENS, Ga. - An Athens poultry processing plant employee "executed" a supervisor last November as the two married men argued over a single woman who also worked at Pilgrim's Pride, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday in opening statements in the trial of Nathaniel Brittian.

Sunday, Sept. 18, 2005
Man kills girlfriend, then self
ATHENS, Ga. - An east Athens man shot and killed his girlfriend and later turned the gun on himself in what Athens-Clarke County police are calling a murder-suicide.

Cameras catch downtown life
ATHENS, Ga. - The officers face a wall of tipsy pedestrians that block the view from one block to the next.

Thursday, Sept. 15, 2005
Man gets deal in raccoon shooting
ATHENS, Ga. - A former University of Georgia student accused of shooting a raccoon that his fraternity brothers then cooked and ate is serving probation in a deal that allows him to avoid a trial and a possible yearlong prison sentence.

Thursday, Sept. 8, 2005

Jury in Athens convicts woman
ATHENS, Ga. - A 52-year-old Winterville woman was found guilty Tuesday of embezzling more than $100,000 from her Athens employer after a week-long trial in Clarke County Superior Court.

Saturday, Aug 27, 2005

Officers battle to stop abuse
ATHENS, Ga. - The floors were so saturated by urine, the woman living in the apartment below had to use buckets to catch the noxious fluids leaking through her ceiling.

Saturday, Aug 20, 2005
Guards peeped, women allege
ATHENS, Ga. - Women working the cosmetics counter of a local department store were spied on by security guards using a hidden camera as the women undressed in their changing room, Belk contract workers allege.

Thursday, Aug 18, 2005
Nuwaubian manor goes up for auction
ATHENS, Ga. - The mansion's rank odor is as foul as the unspeakable deeds done there when occupied by a religious sect leader now serving a 137-year prison sentence on federal child molestation and racketeering charges.

Monday, Aug 1, 2005
Athens police hope cameras will help stop crimes
ATHENS, Ga. - Two men shake hands and part ways on East Clayton Street. A young woman is carried piggyback across North Lumpkin Street. A pair of buddies walk along Broad Street with arms draped over each other's shoulders.

Friday, April 29, 2005

Homeless man not guilty of UGA fire
ATHENS, Ga. - A Clarke County Superior Court jury acquitted a 20-year-old homeless man Thursday of charges he intentionally set a fire that caused about $17 million in damage to the University of Georgia's Main Library in 2003.
Saturday, April 2, 2005
Police charge 3 with fraud
ATHENS, Ga. - Three former employees of an Athens poultry processing plant have been arrested and a fourth is being sought in connection with an alleged conspiracy to defraud the company of nearly $100,000.

Saturday, March 12, 2005
Gang graffiti returns to streets of Athens
ATHENS, Ga. - After a noticeable decrease in gang activity, signs have resurfaced with a vengeance, with gang-related graffiti appearing in parts of Clarke County where it had never been seen - even on the front door of a law enforcement agency in west Athens.

Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Two accused of illegal gambling
ATHENS, Ga. - A woman who ran a series of legitimate noncash poker tournaments in downtown bars has been accused of running illegal card games at her West Athens home where the stakes ran to thousands of dollars.

Monday, Feb. 28, 2005

Schools crack down on gangs
ATHENS, Ga. - Training by police is helping the Clarke County School District combat gangs by helping school officials recognize gang behavior and deal with the problem before it gets out of hand, police and school officials said.

Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2005
Church plans return by Easter
ATHENS, Ga. - Members of the south Athens church damaged in December by an intentionally set fire could return to St. James United Methodist Church in time for Easter services, a church official said.

Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2005
Video, witnesses open Athens murder trial
ATHENS, Ga. - A video recording of a mob scene outside a downtown Athens nightclub captured the gunshot that took the life of a visiting Tennessee teen in November 2003.

Friday, Jan. 28, 2005
Teen robbers had previous arrests
ATHENS, Ga. - An Athens teen who was shot dead Monday during an attempted armed robbery of a rural grocery store had an extensive record of arrests on drug and other charges over the past year, while his younger accomplice had been arrested only once before on a lesser offense.