B.J. Williams

A Georgia sheriff stands by his decision to spend $15,000 helping the Secret Service when Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump came to Macon in November.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is reviewing the death of a man who was shot by a sheriff's deputy Monday while struggling with his son over a gun, authorities said.

Torrential rains that have flooded roadways, pushed rivers over their banks and washed out some low-lying areas in north Georgia on Christmas Eve.

The Georgia Department of Labor announced Thursday morning the unemployment rate in the Northeast Georgia region in November was 4.9 percent, down four-tenths of a percentage point from 5.3 percent in October.

The Georgia State Patrol said Wednesday no charges will be filed in a Tuesday night crash in south Hall County that killed a 6-year-old boy.

A Georgia airman who played football in high school and college before joining the military was among six American service members killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan, his family confirmed Tuesday.

The Lanierland tournament has been going for 55 years -- and the Gainesville boys basketball team has been part of every one of those competitions -- until now.

A heat wave that could deliver the warmest Christmas ever recorded to some cities across the South may also fuel tornadoes and storms featuring golf ball-sized hail, flooding and damaging winds of up to 70 mph, forecasters say.

The warden at Hall County's Correctional Institute has been patiently waiting for a new facility to open, and after several delays, he thinks the opening will now come at the beginning of 2016.

Gwinnett County police are looking for a man who robbed a branch of BB&T bank with a demand note that said "Merry Christmas."