Bryan Pirkle

Following a brief period of relatively warm temperatures, the sudden streak of cold weather that has set in over north Georgia the past few days has proven a threat to many outdoor plants. And, an overnight frost in some parts of Hall County Tuesday night took its toll on some early blooms.

A federal prosecutor said agents were still looking for more suspects in the abduction of a North Carolina prosecutor's father as a judge denied bond Tuesday for five people arrested last week.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed laws Monday meant to clarify development regulations on a coastal Georgia island.

Vice President Joe Biden will visit Ukraine later this month to meet with government and citizen leaders.

A candidate for Georgia's open U.S. Senate seat has apologized for suggesting that his opponent's lack of a college degree makes her less qualified for the position.

The attorney for a 16-year-old student accused of going on a stabbing spree at his high school outside Pittsburgh says the boy was ``like a deer in the headlights'' hours after the attack.

The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a flood warning for some counties in the north Georgia area.

Less than two months after his daughter was killed on a film set in southeast Georgia, Richard Jones grapples with waves of unexpected grief, such as a day last week when a riverside walk at home in South Carolina took him past a railroad bridge.

Former President Jimmy Carter on Tuesday night lamented continuing inequalities between black and white Americans during a 50th anniversary celebration of the Civil Rights Act in Texas that will feature four of the five living U.S. presidents this week.

Authorities at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina say a Marine standing guard at the main gate has shot and killed another guard.