The Walton Way campus of Augusta State University will close following Friday evening activities (10 p.m., Feb. 12) and re-open at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13, due to the impending snow predicted for our area and expected difficulties in traveling.

Athens-Clarke police are investigating a murder-suicide that started with a woman’s body found in a parked car about a mile from the University of Georgia campus.

Augusta State University (ASU) students give the problems of domestic violence the silent treatment. It was an attention grabber on campus…several students wearing tape over their mouths to honor the victims of domestic violence, on Wednesday.

The Georgia World Congress Center’s loss for last fiscal year was worse than projected, and it is only expected to worsen this year. The 3.9 million square-foot conference center campus in downtown Atlanta lost $1.3 million in the fiscal year that ended June 30. It’s the first budget decline for the expansive center since 2005.

Relatives of Virginia Tech victims are asking the state to reopen its investigation of the 2007 mass shootings at the school. A group including parents of many of the 32 people killed by student gunman Seung-Hui Cho issued a statement Tuesday calling on Gov. Tim Kaine to reopen a state panel’s review. The group also includes people hurt in the shooting.

Mark Richt is in the dog house with one of the top high school football programs in Georgia. Carver High School head football coach Dell McGee has banned Richt’s coaching staff from stepping on the Carver campus.

A Texas Southern University spokeswoman says six people were shot and wounded at a community rally on the Texas Southern University campus in what police believe was a gang-related drive-by shooting. TSU spokeswoman Eva Pickens says one male student was among those injured Wednesday night.

Two men involved in a shootout with Clark Atlanta University police earlier this month have been charged in the death of a Smyrna man in June.

Part of a parking deck near downtown Atlanta has collapsed.

Coming soon to a campus near you - the Google tricycle. A pedicab-like vehicle with an 8-foot-high camera is rolling around the walkways at the University of Pennsylvania to collect 360-degree views for the “Street View” feature of Google Maps.

The Medical College of Georgia says it has received permission from a national accreditation agency to take additional steps toward opening a campus in Athens. MCG says the Liaison Committee on Medical Education sent a letter that says planning is on track to admit 40 students to the Medical College-University of Georgia Partnership Campus in Athens.

A good review by the Liaison Committee for Medical Evaluation could give the partnership between the Medical College of Georgia and UGA the go-ahead to begin recruiting students.

There’s a new university in Augusta. Strayer University held it’s grand opening Wednesday at its new facility on Augusta West Parkway. The 117-year-old Washington, D.C.-based institution already has campuses in Atlanta and Savannah, but this is its first Augusta campus.

A partnership between the University of Georgia and the Medical College of Georgia has been formalized after three years of plans to expand medical education in the state.

Classes at the University of Central Arkansas are cancelled Monday after two students were killed, and another person wounded, in a shooting. It happened Sunday night outside a dorm.