Today’s big list of updates:

• Public university students all over Georgia will have to take the Regents’ Exam earlier (ABH & Gwinnett Daily Post).   Instead of being able to take the test anytime before students receive 45 hours, now they will have to take it before or right after they begin their freshman fall semester.
• Vehicles broken into at Lodge of Athens (ABH).
• The conflict study we reported on Monday is making big waves, and is featured on Slashdot.
• AJC interview with football recruit Jonathon Owens.
• Georgia ranked as preseason #14 in football (AJC).
• AJC blog discusses football suspensions.
• Another AJC blog reminisces on the old days of Georgia football.