B.J. Williams

Three White County schools were placed on what's known as "soft lock-down" Tuesday morning for what school officials said was a suspicious person in the area.

Saying he believes test scores will be "brutal," Hall County School Superintendent Will Schofield has recommended the the school board approve a local waiver on the scores in the first round of Georgia Milestones testing.

A Duluth man will spend the next 29 years in federal prison for producing pornographic images of young boys, according to the United States Attorney's Office in Atlanta.

Officials from the U.S. Department of Labor say two Georgia organizations will receive worker training grant funding from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Home Depot confirmed on Monday that its payment systems have been hacked in a data breach that could affect millions of shoppers who used credit and debit cards at its more than 2,000 U.S. and Canadian stores.

Prince George is not going to be an only child for long - the toddler will soon have a baby sister or brother to share his fancy digs at Kensington Palace.

Sweden's Electrolux is buying the appliances business of General Electric for $3.3 billion, boosting its presence on the North American market, the companies said Monday.

President Barack Obama will outline plans this week for an expanded U.S. campaign to defeat violent Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, a strategy that will also involve cooperation from allies in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere.

The head of the state ethics commission was fired Monday, less than a week after a judge fined her $10,000 for failing to turn over key documents in a lawsuit against the agency and called her actions ``dishonest and non-transparent.''

State officials said Georgia's net tax collections for August totaled $1.39 billion, up 3.5 percent from a year ago.