Tag: Associated Press


  • ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a newspaper’s claim that police violated the state’s open records laws by refusing to release documents related to the unsolved rape and murder of a University of Georgia student. In a 2005 lawsuit, The Athens Banner-Herald claimed the Athens-Clarke County Police Department thwarted reporters’…

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  • ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a newspaper’s claim that police violated the state’s open records laws by refusing to release documents related to the unsolved rape and murder of a University of Georgia student. In a 2005 lawsuit, The Athens Banner-Herald claimed that the Athens-Clarke County Police Department had…

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  • ATHENS — Investigators continued their search for clues in the slaying of a University of Georgia student found strangled and sexually assaulted in her off-campus apartment. More than 40 officers from the Athens-Clarke County police and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation scoured the apartment and the surrounding area throughout the weekend. Fiber samples, fingerprints and…

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