Bryan Pirkle

Before 14-year-old Brian Duran set out from central Honduras in mid-April, he heard that child migrants who turned themselves in to the U.S. Border Patrol were being cared for and not deported.

A former southeast Georgia banker accused of embezzling and losing $21 million of investors' money, then vanishing for 18 months before he was arrested in a traffic stop, has agreed to settle his case with a plea deal, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.

A Talmo man is being held in the Jackson County Jail without bond after being arrested Monday on charges stemming from a domestic violence investigation.

No injuries have been reported following a small fire inside a Gainesville duplex Monday evening.

The Pentagon concluded in 2010 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his unit, and after an initial flurry of searching the military curbed any high-risk rescue plans.

A Dawsonville teen has been charged in a fatal vehicle crash that claimed the life of his friend, according to Forsyth County authorities.

The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) announces a planned speed limit change to the State Route 15/US 441 Loop in Jackson and Banks counties. The speed limit is being raised to 65 miles-per-hour effective Tuesday, June 17. It is now 55.

Authorities are investigating after a man found his mother dead in a room inside her Norcross home where a fire had occurred.

The Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) will help the Tanger Outlet Mall in Commerce fill a number of seasonal and part-time jobs at about 20 retail stores Friday, June 6.

The House is cutting back armed air marshals but increasing funding to deal with a surge in unaccompanied immigrant children. It's boosting funding for gun background checks and resisting tea party cuts to economic development programs. Military readiness is taking a hit to pay for more ships and airplanes.