B.J. Williams

Authorities have identified a deceased woman who was found floating in Lake Allatoona as a Marietta woman.

Authorities say a 1-year-old boy had died in an apparent accidental drowning in a west Georgia lake.

Kennesaw has banned new pawn shops and payday lenders from opening for one year.

Cubans braced Monday for a clampdown on the flow of car tires, flat-screen televisions, blue jeans and shampoo in the bags of travelers who haul eye-popping amounts of foreign-bought merchandise to an island where consumer goods are frequently shoddy, scarce and expensive.

North Korea gave foreign media access on Monday to three detained Americans who said they have been able to contact their families and - watched by officials as they spoke - called for Washington to send a high-ranking representative to negotiate for their freedom.

An officer with the Athens-Clarke County Police Department was shot and wounded while responding to a domestic disturbance Sunday.

Authorities are investigating how a Marietta man died skydiving in Polk County.

President Barack Obama is asking Americans this Labor Day to think about the rights and benefits that people often take for granted.

A jury has convicted a woman accused of killing a Georgia woman through illicit silicone buttocks injections.

A middle Georgia sheriff says two inmates visiting a Macon funeral home tried to return to jail with drugs and other contraband that had been hidden inside their grandmother's casket.