Fair 87 ° in Athens, GA
An Athens-Clarke police officer arrested two University of Georgia students early Wednesday after he saw one pass the other a fake driver's license outside a bar downtown.
A man suffered minor injuries Wednesday while escaping from a fire in his Skyland Drive home in Jefferson, according to Steve Nichols, director of Jackson County Emergency Services.
A burglar broke a back window of a Clarke County School District employee's home on the Eastside between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Tuesday and stole a TV, an iPod dock, a laptop computer, a PlayStation, a backpack and video games with a total value of $3,132, Athens-Clarke police said.
Thieves stole a weed trimmer and edgers valued at $1,500 from the front of a home in the 100 block of Kingswood Drive while the landscaper worked in the backyard between 11 and 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Athens-Clarke police said.
An officer patrolling the 200 block of Oak Street on Tuesday night recognized a man who was wanted by Atlanta police on an aggravated assault charge, Athens-Clarke police said.
