Bryan Pirkle

Small-town police departments across the country have been gobbling up tons of equipment discarded by a downsizing military: bicycles, bed sheets, bowling pins, French horns, dog collars, even a colonoscopy machine, regardless of whether the items are needed or will ever be used.

A woman accused in the death of an East Point police officer was likely angry the victim had ended their relationship, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Three women held captive in a run-down home for a decade kept diaries documenting the physical and sexual abuse they suffered on a daily basis, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Southern Co. shareholders will absorb $450 million in losses incurred while building a new coal-fired power plant in Mississippi, raising the total write-offs on the construction project to nearly $1 billion, utility officials said Tuesday.

A 50-year-old man from Georgia has pleaded guilty to possessing stolen U.S. mail.

Forecasters monitoring a tropical storm crossing Hawaii were still warning residents and tourists on Monday to brace for possible flooding, wind gusts, mudslides and big waves, even as the storm weakened on its journey.

Henry County fire officials say a teenage boy has drowned in Lake Dow.

Wildfires in Oregon have burned 21,000 acres, or nearly 33 square miles, and were just 2 percent contained as of Monday afternoon. More than 100 houses have been evacuated and others are on evacuation alert.

A Healthcare Reform Seminar will be held on Wednesday, September 18 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Brenau Downtown Center (formerly Georgia Mountains Center) in Gainesville.

C. Rogers Road in north Hall County has been re-opened less than 12 hours after being washed out by heavy rains.