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16 Dec 2025
Charles Hosch made the 2.5-mile trek to Blood Mountain's summit on Nov. 11 to collect dirt from what he considered a sacred place. He spoke to two men near the top and was headed back down.
After that, Hosch vanished.
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May 24
Because this soundbite from Chase Elliott became a talking point, I wrote a story about it - and about what his father did, 25 years ago, in a similar situation.
Here it is, in FREE gift link form: charlotteobserver.com/sports…
May 23
Chase Elliott says he wants Kyle Busch to win the Most Popular Driver award this year and wants to do whatever is needed to make that happen.
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Inside a Georgia classroom earlier this year, fifth graders saw a different side of NASCAR legend Kyle Busch.
“Kyle at the track has always been this hardball, sarcastic and competitive. Not a lot of people got to see that he had an extremely soft side.”
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May 22
ATHENS — A recent wave of professional sports investment is testing whether this college town long defined by the Georgia Bulldogs can support multiple pro franchises long term. ajc.com/news/2026/05/athens-…
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Apr 16
With sellout crowds, offbeat promotions and a team contending at the top of its league as it faces off in the first round of the playoffs Friday, the Athens Rock Lobsters have sparked an unlikely hockey boom in this city long defined by college football. ajc.com/news/2026/04/in-foot…
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Apr 15
JD Vance: Erika Kirk skips Turning Point event in Georgia after ‘threats’ bit.ly/4dIC7JT
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Apr 11
Thomasville high schooler and UGA golf signee Mason Howell got his first taste of the Masters this week. A full-circle moment Friday was more evidence it won’t be his last at Augusta National. ajc.com/sports/2026/04/thoma…
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Apr 10
Georgia Bulldogs legend Loran Smith watched Arnold Palmer win the 1960 Masters. Smith, 87, has returned every year since, still searching for stories to tell ajc.com/sports/2026/04/a-uga…
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Mar 31
As a toddler, Mason Howell launched rocks in South Georgia with plastic golf clubs and begged his dad to take him to the range.
Next week — before graduating high school — the UGA signee will tee off at the Masters.
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Mar 16
Two decades after he gave a "galvanizing" speech on the eve of UGA's 2005 SEC championship season, D.J. Shockley will return to Sanford Stadium to deliver another one. That's a good excuse to write about one of the most beloved players in Bulldogs history ajc.com/news/2026/03/dj-shoc…
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29 Dec 2025
“I don’t think I ever ran into anybody who loved Georgia more.”
Though Loran Smith officially retired earlier this year from UGA, he never really left. The 87-year-old remains same as always — chasing the next great Georgia Bulldogs story. ajc.com/news/2025/12/whadday…
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17 Dec 2025
Ahkil Crumpton found guilty of murder for the 2021 shooting of Oconee County RaceTrac clerk Elijah Wood. Jury deliberated for just 38 minutes. Crumpton, a former University of Georgia football player, is already serving a 30-year federal sentence. ajc.com/news/2025/12/ex-uga-…
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10 Dec 2025
The delay caused by the Gainesville-Brunswick melee isn’t new for the GHSA playoffs.
Fifty years ago, a hotly disputed final seconds of the 1975 Douglass-Lakeside semifinal spiraled into 10 days of rulings. Only, rather than punches, there was a clock.
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8 Dec 2025
Elijah Wood, the 23-year-old RaceTrac gas station clerk killed in 2021, performed a “noble job” by covering the graveyard shift for a sick co-worker, prosecutors said Monday in opening statements at the murder trial of the man accused of gunning him down.
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15 Nov 2025
Georgia football’s game against Texas this weekend already set records well before kickoff.
The Athens-Ben Epps Airport will handle the most incoming and outgoing weekend flights in its 100-plus-year history.
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14 Nov 2025
This is the best story that will come out of Athens this weekend. @FletcherPage knocks it out of the park on Weaver D’s ajc.com/news/2025/11/automat…
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14 Nov 2025
You should read every word of this @FletcherPage profile of Dexter Weaver. An Athens institution who has been “Automatic for the People” for decades.
Weaver D's, famous for R.E.M. album title, leaves bigger stamp on Athens ajc.com/news/2025/11/automat…
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14 Nov 2025
If you ever stood in line for fried chicken or pork chops or steak and gravy, you know it isn’t just lunch. It’s Athens.
Weaver D's is up for sale again — for real this time, Dexter says — and it feels like the end of something we’ll never see again. ajc.com/news/2025/11/automat…
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18 Sep 2025
Since Sanford Stadium opened in 1929, it has been reshaped, expanded & modernized into one of college football’s premier venues.
But one original feature has gone mostly untouched for nearly a century: a concrete culvert buried beneath the stadium.
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