Bryan Pirkle

U.S. Rep. Tom Graves has successfully defended his northwest Georgia seat from a challenger who's a fellow Republican.

U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland has defeated a fellow Republican in the primary election for a west Georgia seat.

Republican Greg Duke has won a chance to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop of Columbus.

Michelle Nunn has won the Democratic nomination for a crucial U.S. Senate seat in Georgia and now awaits the winner of a fiercely contested GOP race.

A Winder man has been arrested following the robbery of the Ingles Market pharmaceutical department on Winder Highway Monday night.

Working to fill campaign coffers for House Democrats, President Barack Obama poked fun at Republicans on Monday for placing an election-year focus on the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, and his namesake health care law rather than on issues he deemed more serious.

Georgia Senate candidate Michelle Nunn is refusing to say whether she would have voted for President Barack Obama's signature health care law in a race that could help determine congressional control.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says he's looking at making changes to a controversial program that runs people booked for local crimes through a federal immigration database.

Candidates running in Georgia's fiercely contested Republican primary for the U.S. Senate are blasting the perceived front-runner in the race for making comments they say suggest he would support raising taxes.

Centennial Arts Academy in Gainesville has been selected as the winner of a $1,000 grant courtesy of the nationwide program