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Brown, Lumpkin still out for Florida gameHead coach Mark Richt announced Tuesday at his weekly news conference at Stegeman Coliseum that senior tailback Thomas Brown will not play against Florida and will not make the trip to Jacksonville with the team. This news comes about a week after Richt said there was an outside chance of Brown being able to return from a clavicle injury.

A banner reading "Lend Us Your Voice" hangs from the one-story brick building. Inside, volunteers read aloud textbooks in eight recording booths. In 1948, Anne T. MacDonald of the New York Public Library's Women's Auxiliary founded the program Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic to aid World War II veterans that were blinded or physically disabled and seeking an education but could not read Braille.

Grab bag of newsGet your daily news fix before making a weekend trip to jean-shorts territory. Party in the city where the heat is on Travel and Leisure Magazine released its list of the Top 25 cities with the most attractive people. No. 1 on the list? Miami, with Atlanta coming in at No.

The elementary school notes that used to read, "Do you like me? Check: yes, no, maybe," have gotten a major upgrade - Facebook style.

Thanks to the new Facebook application "Are You Interested?" no one ever will suffer needlessly the utter humiliation and awkward dialogue of a date request turned sour.

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.

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.