Bryan Pirkle

With winter weather and frigid temperatures posing a number of risks to north Georgians, the congregation of Highlands Church in Cumming has announced they will open their doors to anyone without adequate shelter or heat over the next two days.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has told Congress that by late February he will run out of steps he can take to avoid a first-ever default on U.S. debt.

A 14-year-old suburban Chicago girl faces a first-degree murder charge in the killing of an 11-year-old who was stabbed more than 30 times in the home where both of them lived, officials said Wednesday.

A federal grand jury in Greeneville has charged 26 people with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.

Account information stolen during the Target security breach is now being divided up and sold off regionally, a South Texas police chief said Monday following the arrest of two Mexican citizens who authorities say arrived at the border with 96 fraudulent credit cards.

The urban decay along Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in St. Louis can be found in other major American cities, from Houston and Milwaukee to the nation's capital.

Opponents of Georgia's private probation system say companies supervising low-level offenders are earning millions in fees while using law enforcement offices as collections agencies when they go unpaid.

The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said she's concerned about the idea that data collected from a National Security Agency program that harvests Americans' phone records might be stored by others.

Hundreds of residents who fled a wildfire in the suburbs of Los Angeles returned home Saturday as red-flag warnings of extremely dangerous fire conditions expired, but officials say that bone-dry winter conditions remain a threat for the region.

A state lawmaker proposed Monday that California extend its requirement that gun buyers undergo background checks and register their weapons to anyone who assembles a firearm in their home.