Bryan Pirkle

Backed by ships, helicopters and drones, Russian rescue teams searched for victims in the Black Sea after a Russian military plane carrying 92 people to Syria crashed Sunday shortly after takeoff from Sochi.

Gwinnett County police are asking for the public's help identifying a female pedestrian who was seriously injured Christmas morning when she was struck by a vehicle.

Henry County Sheriff Keith McBrayer says one of his deputies died when his SUV ran off the road and hit several trees, throwing him out of the vehicle

President Barack Obama has designated the bulk of U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasing.

A Barrow County firefighter suffered a minor injury over the weekend after responding to a residential fire in the western side of the county.

Winder Police made two arrests this week while following up on a citizen complaint that alerted authorities to ongoing criminal activity inside city limits.

A suspicious device apparently found inside a Gainesville home was detonated by the GBI bomb squad Monday night.

A brief SWAT standoff in Gainesville ended peacefully Monday afternoon when a wanted felon was taken into custody by Hall County authorities.

Gwinnett County authorities say a SWAT situation in Suwanee ended peacefully Thursday afternoon when a wanted fugitive was arrested without incident.

The Georgia State Patrol is investigating a fatal accident in Hall County that saw a pedestrian struck by a trailer that had detached from its vehicle and overturned Thursday afternoon.