Classic City News

06/17/2026

Deborah Harry at Coney Island in 1977

06/17/2026

Congratulations Mayor-elect Fisher and best of luck to you!

06/17/2026

By Joe Johnson George Anderson, 58, of Norwood Court, was arrested early in the morning of June 3rd because a woman who was driving hiim failed to dim her car’s bright lights for oncoming traffic.During a traffic stop on Barnett Shoals Road police searched the car because of a glass pipe with resi...

06/17/2026

By Joe Johnson The Cedar Shoals High School community is mourning the death of an alumna who was a star athlete.Retana Yvette Hayes was found deceased in her car on the evening of June 4th.The cause of death is pending an autopsy at the state medical examiner’s office.Ms. Hayes, 55, had been a sta...

06/17/2026

By T. W. Burger I found it, naturally, while looking for something entirely different.In a box on a bottom shelf in my office, jammed in with some other mementos, was my old Mr. Trash hat.It was filthy.Of course, it was filthy when I put it away, sometime back in the early 1980s.The grime is easy to...

06/17/2026

06/17/2026

By Joe Johnson Recently filed court documents describe the cold-blooded behavior of a man accused of murdering two people in downtown Athens three months ago.According to a homicide detective’s sworn affidavit, early in the morning of March 14th Mark Anthony Desousa walked up to Dylan Bentley in a...

06/17/2026

By Joe Johnson Timothy Lee Randles, 39, of Almond Drive, was arrested this week for possessing child sexual abuse material.The Investigation began in November with a cyber tip to the National Center for Missing and ExploitedChildren that Randles had uploaded images of children being sexually abused....

06/17/2026

By Albert DeSimone Jimmi Hendrix used it. Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend, Dave Davies, and Tony Iommi used it, as did many others from the 1960s hard rock scene. We’re talking about the power chord and how it was incorporated into the distorted sound of rock music in the 1950s. The process of the heav...

06/17/2026

By Joe Johnson Dwayne Scott Johnson, 59, of Rolling Ridge Drive, has been indicted for allegedly sexually assaulting a 7-year-old boy.He was charged with child molestation, aggravated child molestation and sexual battery against a child under 16, according to the indictment filed on May 28th in Supe...