B.J. Williams

Cadet Capt. Jonathan Chase Strickland, a member of the University of North Georgia (UNG) Corps of Cadets, was honored Wednesday by Gov. Nathan Deal and both chambers of the state legislature

The husband of a Barrow County day care center operator is in jail, charged with molesting some of the children in his wife's care.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has now released the names of two men who were shot and killed in Mt. Airy in eastern Habersham County Wednesday afternoon.

Authorities say one person is dead and multiple others are injured after tornadoes hit Oklahoma and Arkansas.

The co-pilot of a Germanwings flight that slammed into an Alpine mountainside "intentionally" sent the plane into its doomed descent, a French prosecutor said Thursday.

A 23-year-old Georgia man has been sentenced to serve more than 17 years in federal prison for using extortion to get teenage girls to send him pornographic images.

The Georgia Department of Labor announced Thursday morning that the unemployment rate in the Northeast Georgia region was 6.0 percent in February, down one-tenth of a percentage point from 6.1 percent in January.

The chairman of a key House committee says a proposal to require insurance coverage of autism therapy won't receive a floor vote this session.

Dunagan Chapel United Methodist Church in east Hall County is hosting a three-day re-enactment of the Easter story.

Authorities say a lab at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention near Atlanta was closed Wednesday after a fire in the facility.