B.J. Williams

Georgia's governor extended his emergency rules regarding COVID-19 again Wednesday as the state surpassed 7,000 deaths from the respiratory illness.

The Hall County Sheriff's Office is inviting members of the public to line the route for the funeral procession of Lt. Stephanie Hollingsworth, a veteran of the department killed in a traffic accident on Sept. 20.

A fourth suspect in an ongoing investigation into a Hall County theft ring is now behind bars.

After more than two weeks on the run, a suspect in a Buford murder has been arrested.

North Georgia Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Doug Collins in the recipient of the Torchbearer Award from the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty.

Gov. Brian Kemp will spend his Tuesday on a swing across North Georgia.

Seven candidates are facing off in Tuesday's special election to become the short-term successor to the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis in Georgia.

A federal judge ruled on Monday that every polling place in Georgia must have at least one updated paper backup list of eligible voters to help keep long lines from forming on Election Day if electronic pollbooks used to check in voters malfunction.

Some buildings of the Hall County Sheriff's Office will be closed for most of the day Wednesday, Sept. 30 so members of the HCSO family can attend visitation and a funeral service for Lt. Stephanie Hollingsworth.

Speed is believed to a factor in a car crash that killed a Lawrenceville man over the weekend, according to the Gwinnett County Police Department.