B.J. Williams

A public hearing and city council vote are set in an Atlanta suburb, where officials are considering a proposed 400-foot tower for emergency communications.

The investigation of a toddler's death in a hot SUV in Georgia hinges on a key question: Was the boy the victim of a horrific accident after his father simply forgot to take him to day care, or did the man know the child was inside when he left him strapped in for seven hours?

The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that the unemployment rate in the Northeast Georgia region increased to 6.6 percent in May, up eight-tenths of a percentage point from 5.8 percent in April.

Sheriff's officials in northeastern Georgia say a 14-year-old boy has been charged in the attempted rape of a 70-year-old woman.

In a strong defense of digital age privacy, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police may not generally search the cellphones of people they arrest without first getting search warrants.

One of the biggest producers of Vidalia onions has agreed to pay more than $90,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a group of farmworkers.

An embattled day care facility in Clermont will forego an appeal to remain open as an investigation moves forward into an incident in which a child was burned while in the care of workers at the center.

Georgia Division of Family and Children Services investigators have been ordered to work at least eight hours of weekly overtime until the agency eliminates a backlog of child protective services investigations.

Federal labor officials have awarded more than $300,000 to fund re-employment programs and eligibility assessments for the unemployed in Georgia.

Seven children from a day care center sustained minor burns on a field trip to the Southeastern Railway Museum