Country singer Tony Douglas has died
Posted by: Sherrill Fulghum
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-01-31 22:24:58 -0800 | obituaries-news
Sixties country music star Tony Douglas died Jan. 22 at the age of 83 in Athens, Texas after a battle with lymphoma. Douglas died surrounded by friends and family at the hospital. Douglas became interested in country music as a...
7 years, 7 lives changed by Twitter
Source: CNN
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-03-21 03:58:19 -0700 | entertainment-news
Twitter turns 7 on Wednesday, and in some ways, it's like a lot of 7-year-olds...Its idea of a good conversation sometimes devolves into short bursts of shouting. It can have the attention span of a gnat, loving a shiny new...
Group protests 'chola' pics at CSUSM
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-09 20:06:59 -0700 | political-news
A few dozen students protested at Cal State San Marcos Thursday afternoon asking school officials to do more to promote racial sensitivity on campus. The students were reacting to a recent incident in which members of sorority posted pictures of...
Campus 'chola' pics spark call for sensitivity
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-08 19:11:04 -0700 | political-news
Sorority and fraternity leaders at UC San Diego have joined in a call for racial sensitivity on college campuses after a recent incident at Cal State San Marcos in which sorority members dressed as cholas posted photos on social networking...
Today in History
Source: Boston.com
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-03-31 01:07:29 -0700 | entertainment-news
On March 31, 1943, Oklahoma!,'' the first musical play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opened on Broadway. On this date: In 1889, French engineer Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its...
Recruiting: Georgia hoops team rounds out roster
Source: Ledger-Enquirer
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-04-21 15:20:01 -0700 | sports-news
Cameron Forte, a 6-foot-7 junior college prospect, apparently will be the final member of the Georgia men's basketball team's roster for next season. Forte, a native of Tempe, Arizona, tweeted on Sunday that he had just committed to Georgia. He...
Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone
Source: Salem News
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-06 23:17:03 -0700 | travel-news
Both at the conceptual and practical level the discussions that took place were sober and pregnant with possibilities. All this brings home to us the importance of initiatives such as the Athens Dialogue which aim to eliminate the bomb from...
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