The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of two University of Georgia students’ lawsuit challenging a local noise ordinance for making them turn down their music. The students claimed the local law is unconstitutional because it violates their First Amendment right to free speech.

A local, state and national football star is in trouble…accused of bilking local banks out of a lot of money. Count on WJBF News Channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud for the details.

A former NFL football player with ties to Augusta is facing federal charges. A federal grand jury has returned a 22-count indictment against Arthur Marshall. Marshall is charged with fraud and money laundering in his real estate ventures. He is also accused of defrauding three banks in obtaining loans for seven different properties in Columbia and Richmond Counties.

Georgia junior first baseman Rich Poythress (Greenbrier HS/Grovetown, GA) was selected in the second round by the Seattle Mariners with the 51st overall pick in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft on Tuesday.

An Athens-based agency that helps battered women says a University of Georgia professor’s April 25 shooting of his wife, two others and himself has increased the number of women reaching out for help. Project Safe’s hotlines received about 116 calls a month in 2008 and through this April.

It’s groundbreaking surgery, and the first of its kind to ever be done in the state of Georgia, and it’s brought new hope to one Augusta family…and their pet. A professor from the veterinary school at the University of Georgia, performed the state’s first ever dog knee replacement surgery on a 12-year-old lab.  WJBF News Channel 6’s Barclay Bishop has more.

It’s groundbreaking surgery, and the first of its kind to ever be done in the state of Georgia, and it’s brought new hope to one Augusta family…and their pet. A professor from the veterinary school at the University of Georgia, performed the state’s first ever dog knee replacement surgery on a 12-year-old lab.  WJBF News Channel 6’s Barclay Bishop has more.

Documents from a police investigation into the former University of Georgia professor who fatally shot his wife and two others show he had secretly recorded a conversation between he and his wife about her affair with one of the men killed.

The family of the former University of Georgia professor accused of fatally shooting his wife and two others hasn’t claimed his body. Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead said George Zinkhan’s body is in a cooler at the agency’s medical examiner’s office in Decatur.

An Athens community theater troupe is vowing a return to the stage this summer after three of its members were fatally shot by a University of Georgia professor last month. The Town & Gown Players said in a statement Wednesday their schedule will resume July 10 with a production of Neil Simon’s “Fools.“

Police say a wanted University of Georgia professor found dead in the woods over the weekend shot himself but left no suicide note.

Officials have confirmed a body found in the north Georgia woods is that of a professor wanted for killing his wife and two other people at a community theater two weeks ago. Officials say the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab confirmed Saturday that the body is 57-year-old University of Georgia marketing professor George Zinkhan.

Vanderbilt scored four runs in the first inning and never looked back, defeating No. 13 Georgia 10-2 Friday at Foley Field and sending the Bulldogs to their seventh straight loss.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, two revised sketches of UGA shooting suspect George Zinkhan may make it easier to spot him even if he has shaved off his hair or beard, said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation artist who developed the different looks for Athens police investigators.

Athens-Clarke County police say they’ve found the passport of a University of Georgia professor suspected of killing his wife and two others outside a community theater. Capt. Clarence Holeman confirmed Monday that the passport of George Zinkhan was found inside the wrecked Jeep uncovered in a ravine a few miles from his home Friday. Authorities say the marketing professor never showed up Saturday for a flight he had scheduled to Amsterdam prior to the April 25 shootings.