UGA students leave flowers after a vigil for Laken Riley and a UGA freshman who died on campus. Joshua L. Jones/Online Athens/USA Today Network.

UGA has announced $7 million in new safety measures, including blue light emergency phones, campus safety ambassadors, and a 20% budget increase for the police department, in response to the ...

They say the peaceful, wooded park on UGA’s East Campus is less traveled than it was before the Feb. 22, 2024, killing that made national headlines and shocked Athens.

Georgia attorney Philip Holloway said the UGA death of an Augusta University student may be a 'criminal homicide.' The female nursing student was found dead Thursday behind a lake on campus.

The university has invested $7.3 million in new security systems this year, adding to the more than $16 million spent over the past eight years on campus security, bringing UGA’s total ...

Riley was found dead on Feb. 22 near UGA's Intramural Fields after campus police were called by a concerned friend saying that she had not returned from her morning run, authorities said.

ATHENS, Ga. - A suspect in the death of Augusta University student Laken Riley, who was found dead on the campus of the University of Georgia, has been taken into custody, according to the UGA ...

But it appears that, like Rizzo, many students at Georgia’s flagship public university aren’t sure what side to take, based on interviews with nearly 30 students around campus on Wednesday ...