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Univ. student charged with animal cruelty absent at court hearingAshley Rose Council was scheduled for her first day in court Tuesday, but she did not attend. Council, a junior from Ellenwood, faces seven felony counts of animal cruelty. She is accused of beating seven puppies to death and leaving their bodies near a dumpster, according to police records.

The SEC East is a mess right now - the kind of mess that makes fans shake their heads, "experts" temper their bold predictions and coaches constantly optimistic.

"It's a wild year, isn't it? I'm just taking this baby one at a time," Georgia head coach Mark Richt said.

The SEC kicks off its 2007 Media Days today in Birmingham, Ala., with Tennessee picked as the overwhelming favorite to win the conference's men's basketball crown. The Volunteers received 28 out of 30 first-place votes from local and national reporters in the pre-season media poll, released Tuesday.

Stafford gets his chance It was a pleasant October day when David Greene finally did the unthinkable: he beat the Gators. It's arguable that by the fall of 2004, Greene had little to prove to the Bulldog faithful, but he knew - and perhaps we all did - that leaving Jacksonville with a win was the final exclamation point on a storied career.

Every year visitors flock to Helen, Ga., to "Fruit Loop the Hooch." Locals wryly comment that a number of tourists on multi-colored inner tubes floating down the Chattahoochee River turn the "Hooch" into a giant bowl of cereal. However, Helen is known best for its annual Oktoberfest, occurring from mid-September through October.

Widespread water damage at Dean Rusk Hall on North Campus sparked an $850,000 project.

The project aims to rework the building's masonry and replace 60 windows, University officials said.

The external overhaul of the 11-year-old law school annex is a long time coming, said Don Tadlock, construction director.

We need a new hand gesture, one that says: "Excuse me, Hipster Guy or Fashionable Miss, will you remove your iPod headphones for a moment? Sorry to interrupt your personal concert, but this building may blow up." I discovered this need at 8:30 a.m. Monday when a bomb threat was reported at the Student Learning Center, where I work as a help desk consultant for Enterprise Information Technology Services.