B.J. Williams

U.S.-led airstrikes targeted Syrian oil installations held by the militant Islamic State group overnight and early Thursday, killing nearly 20 people as the militants released dozens of detainees in their de facto capital, fearing further raids, activists said.

The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that the unemployment rate in the Northeast Georgia region in August was 7.3 percent, down two-tenths of a percentage point from 7.5 percent in July

A Tennessee woman is charged with murder after authorities say she gunned down a northwest Georgia woman because she wanted the mother's newborn baby.

Tim Evans, Vice President of Economic Development for the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce, has been elected Chair of the Georgia Economic Developers Association (GEDA).

The wife and sons of former San Diego Chargers defensive back Paul Oliver sued the NFL for wrongful death, blaming sports-related concussions for his suicide last year.

Just hours after announcing an internal investigation into more than $275,000 in missing city funds, the city of Demorest has fired an accountant who had been providing bookkeeping services to the city.

Oakwood police investigators Wednesday released surveillance photos hoping the public can help track some thieves who swiped six computers from the Walmart store on Mundy Mill Road.

Algerian extremists allied with the Islamic State group have decapitated a French hostage after France ignored their demand to stop airstrikes in Iraq, according to a video obtained Wednesday by a U.S.-based terrorism watchdog.

Declaring the world at a "crossroads between war and peace," President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday to lead a coalition to dismantle the Islamic State militant group's "network of death" that has wreaked havoc in the Middle East and drawn the U.S. back into military action in the region.

Police are investigating the death of a person after a hiker found the body in a river at a park in the Athens area.