The Atlanta FBI office planned to have more agents on duty Wednesday even before the announcement that the country's terrorism alert warning was being elevated.
Drunk and arguing with his wife, Donald Chase held a pistol to the floor of his upstairs den and fired. The bullet passed through a carpet and the downstairs kitchen ceiling, then fatally struck his wife as she poured bottles of liquor down the sink.
Two new cases of suspected West Nile virus have been reported in humans in Georgia -- one of them in the same county where a victim is believed to have received the virus from an organ donor.
The U.S. Energy Department's inspector general has recommended burying millions of gallons of radioactive waste at the Savannah River Site instead of processing and storing it in Nevada.
A sailor from Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base has been arrested on multiple charges of child molestation -- the second Kings Bay sailor to be accused of child molestation in the past several months.
The Georgia Public Health Laboratory reported Tuesday finding no traces of anthrax or any powdery substance on an envelope opened at Emory University that was initially thought to contain a suspicious powder.
The National Civil Rights Museum has chosen Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP, and Rigoberta Menchu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, for its annual Freedom Awards.
