Bryan Pirkle

Southern Co. expects the firms building its new nuclear plant in Georgia will pay $240 million in damages if the construction schedule slips another year-and-a-half, power company CEO Thomas Fanning said Wednesday.

A man accused of killing his wife, three of her family members and a friend has been brought back to Georgia to face murder charges after his arrest in Mississippi.

A Georgia man charged in the deaths of his wife, three of her family members and a friend was arrested at a bus station in Tupelo, Mississippi, authorities said Monday.

An Oakwood man is facing numerous charges after firing his shotgun at police through the front door of his home Monday afternoon.

The Hall County Republican Party will hold Precinct Mass Meetings Saturday, a prelude to the county, district and state GOP conventions.

Barrow County Emergency Services is in the process of upgrading the computer aided dispatch (CAD) system in the 911 center and will be contacting county businesses to gather pertinent information.

The delays and cost overruns are piling up for a new plant in Georgia that was supposed to prove nuclear energy can be built affordably.

Insurance companies, perhaps more than previously thought, may be charging the sickest patients extra for drugs under the federal health law, in an effort to discourage them from choosing certain plans, according to a study released Wednesday.

Police have identified the driver killed in a wrong-way crash on a metro Atlanta interstate over the weekend as 27-year-old Keith F. Smith of Suwanee.

First-time claims for unemployment insurance in Georgia were down 12.7 percent in December, compared to a year ago.