Bryan Pirkle

Navy Cmdr. Valerie Overstreet wanted to start a family. But her job as a Navy pilot and the fact that she and her husband, also a naval officer, were stationed in different parts of the country made it complicated.

Officials with the Special Victims Unit of the Gwinnett County Police Department are reaching out to the public in an effort to educate individuals, especially children and teenagers, on the potential dangers of sending or receiving nude pictures through any form of technology or social media.

A law enforcement informant testified Wednesday that two north Georgia men were involved in serious conversations about plotting against the federal government.

In a statement Tuesday, officials said party Chairman Dubose Porter announced that Rebecca Bukant DeHart has been named as the party's executive director.

Officials with the Oakwood Police Department announced Wednesday the arrest of a suspect in the apparent burglary of several area storage units.

In intra-party skirmishes from Georgia to Nebraska, the GOP's most strident candidates and activists are insisting on a no-holds-barred approach. They accuse fellow Republicans including several incumbent senators of being too soft in their opposition to the Affordable Care Act and to the president in general.

Pope Francis lauded Jesus' humble beginning as a poor and vulnerable baby as he celebrated his first Christmas Eve Mass as pontiff Tuesday in St. Peter's Basilica.

Ray Price passed away Monday at his Texas home, having long outlasted most of his country music contemporaries and the prognosis doctors gave him when they discovered his pancreatic cancer in 2011. He was 87.

The Forsyth County Sheriff

City fire investigators said something left cooking unattended on a stove top sparked a fire that caused almost $50,000 in damages to a Gainesville residence Tuesday night.