Kevin West

A teen-ager was charged with murder Thursday in connection with a fatal shooting last weekend.

A 23-year-old man was fatally shot in the chest Thursday in a barber's chair near Clark Atlanta University, police said.

The body of a mentally disabled man was found floating in Lake Olmstead on Thursday, and authorities said they believed it to be a homicide case.

A federal appeals court has ruled that metro Atlanta transportation officials cannot plan or build new projects under a more lenient deadline for meeting air-quality standards.

Authorities Thursday charged a Cobb County couple with murder after their two-month-old baby died this week.

Officials have verified the winning Big Game ticket that was purchased in New Jersey.

Police said the driver of a rental truck was in custody after crashing through a fence Thursday at a Northwest Airlines facility at Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport and striking nine cars.

Southern Company's first-quarter profit jumped 24 percent as the Southeast utility said higher residential and commercial electricity sales and lower interest costs helped to offset falling demand from industrial customers.

The government reported Thursday that black infants in major U.S. cities are up to five times more likely than white infants to die in their first year of life.

A dispute between two families over a wandering dog has been resolved through court-ordered DNA testing.