B.J. Williams

Conservatives are making an election-year attack on national curriculum standards used by Georgia's schools, though it appears unlikely to change much inside classrooms.

A former high school teacher has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for having sex with multiple students.

Authorities say a Milledgeville pastor apparently drowned while trying to launch his new boat into a central Georgia lake.

President Barack Obama has ordered the Pentagon to plan for a full American withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this year should the Afghan government refuse to sign a security agreement with the U.S, the White House said Tuesday.

Since the weather was cooperating Monday, Georgia Department of Transportation crews took the opportunity to make some major progress on the new bridge on Clarks Bridge Road (SR 284) over Lake Lanier.

Local attorney Ashley Bell made it official Tuesday morning - he will join what appears to be crowded field of candidates in the race for State School Superintendent.

Yobe state governor's spokesman says soldiers guarding a checkpoint near a government school mysteriously withdrew hours before a pre-dawn attack in which suspected Islamic extremists killed at least 29 students.

Even the scoreboards in high school gyms eventually will have to promote good health.

U.S. home prices fell for the second straight month in December as brutally cold weather, tight supply and higher costs slowed sales.

Residents of an Atlanta-area retirement home want to know why care packages they tried to send to U.S. troops overseas were left sitting in a nearby post office for months.