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The Monroe County sheriff hung a wanted poster for Punxsutawney Phil. The groundhog saw his shadow last month, predicting 6 more weeks of winter. It's been longer — the state was hit with more snow.

Several high school graduations are taking place this weekend. In Athens-Clarke County, both Cedars Shoals and Clarke Central high schools are holding t…

The Office of Institutional Diversity will screen the documentary “Mary Frances Early: The Quiet Trailblazer,” on Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. in Tate Theatre to mark…

The Athens-Clarke County Police Department is currently searching for two suspects in an attempted rape. Online Athens is reporting that a woman was…

A manhunt is under way in Georgia for two inmates accused of killing two guards on a prison bus Tuesday morning.Authorities say Donnie Russell Rowe, 43,…

David Kertzer is the author of The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism (Knopf). In the book he focuses on the time period from Napoleon to Hitler, and how "traditional" Catholic forms of dealing with Jews became transformed into modern anti-Semitism. Kertzer is Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science and a professor of anthropology and Italian Studies at Brown University. He's also the author of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara about a 6-year-old Jewish boy in Italy who in 1858 was taken from his family, secretly baptized, and sent to live in a Catholic household.

The Clarke County School District will hold a second round of “Community Conversations on School Safety.” The discussions, which are open to the public, will take place next week.

After the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, Washington sent a team of researchers to interview eyewitnesses. Only one interview was conducted in English. A Russian woman living near the destroyed city tells her tale of seeing people caught by the blast. Hear a part of her story.

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, says the Senate's immigration overhaul will cost the country more than $6 trillion over 50 years. A similar report six years ago helped sink that attempt at changing immigration. Critics argue that both reports are fundamentally flawed, and fail to account for the economic benefits of restructuring the immigration system.

Extremism researchers say online rhetoric from the far right has heated up since Trump was indicted. But they're not seeing signs that it will translate to collective violence.