Bryan Pirkle

Newtown voters have accepted a $50 million grant from the state of Connecticut to build a new Sandy Hook Elementary School, the site of last year's school massacre.

Federal authorities and a trade association for the firearms industry say they're offering $10,000 in reward money in hopes of solving the theft of 17 rifles from Bass Pro Shops in Macon.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation will examine a fatal shooting involving Waycross police.

A small plane on a U.S. counter-drug mission crashed Saturday in a remote, jungle region of northern Colombia, killing three Americans and a Panamanian National Guardsman and seriously injuring the other two Americans aboard.

A rare flash of bipartisanship Saturday served as a cruel tease to those hoping Congress is moving toward reopening the government and averting an unprecedented default on the federal debt in less than two weeks.

Over the decades, time turned the remains of Grantville into something almost post-apocalyptic, the perfect modern-day set for humans and ``walkers'' to attack one another. That's how the hugely popular TV show ``The Walking Dead'' ended up coming to town and bringing new life to Grantville.

Police in Washington are reviewing the use of officers' deadly force in the killing of a woman who tried to ram her car through a White House barrier, a shooting her family says was unjustified.

Three days into a government shutdown, President Barack Obama pointedly blamed House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday for keeping federal agencies closed, while the bitter budget dispute moved closer to a more critical showdown over the nation's line of credit. The Treasury warned of calamitous results if Congress fails to raise the debt limit.

Gov. Nathan Deal has named Deborah Wallace as interim state inspector general.

Sheriff's officials say four people have been arrested after a stolen semi-automatic rifle was found in their car during a traffic stop.