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Members of the press and residents packed into the Athens-Clarke County Police Department headquarters Wednesday to discuss public safety and immigration in Athens with Mayor Kelly Girtz. The news conference
ATHENS, Ga. — When a 22-year-old nursing student was found dead on a wooded trail at the University of Georgia in what’s believed to be the first homicide on campus in nearly 30 years, it set off waves of grief and fear that shook the university to its core. But when a 26-year-old migrant from Venezuela was charged Friday with kidnapping and killing the student, Laken Riley, it did something else: It transformed Athens and Clarke County, a community of about 130,000 people some 70 miles east of
Prince William pulled out of a memorial service at Windsor Castle on Tuesday for his godfather, King Constantine II of Greece who died last month, citing a "personal matter" for the last-minute cancellation.
The relatively liberal culture of Athens, its local immigration policies and the border crisis have combined with a brutal crime to create a toxic brew.
News has been spreading about communities across the country winning funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) charging and fueling infrastructure grant program. More than $700 million will become