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A former official of the Coastal Georgia Regional Development Center who admitted embezzling money from state aging agencies was sentenced Thursday to six months house arrest and five years of probation.

They are required to quickly sleuth out the world's most insidious and silent killers using both detective work and some of the world's most complex technology.

College students would be required to take meningitis vaccines under a bill proposed Thursday in the Georgia House.

A judge Thursday sentenced one man to two years in prison and two others to six months of home arrest for being in a multimillion-dollar scheme that redeemed stolen pieces of McDonald's games such as ``Monopoly'' and ``Who Wants to be a Millio

Atlanta Hawks guard DerMarr Johnson, originally thought to be out for the year after breaking four bones in his neck, has returned to practice and hopes to rejoin the team this season.

Employees at the sister agency to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - were required to stay in their offices Thursday after a powdery substance that turned out to not be a bioterrorist ag

Augusta medical officials said Thursday an influenza-B outbreak in Richmond and Columbia counties has flooded area emergency rooms and has resulted in hundreds of student absences.

Public concern over a recent case of bacterial meningitis at Georgia Southern University prompted campus officials to offer vaccinations to students Thursday.

Ted Turner is now officially a Floridian.

Former Congressman Bob Barr is angling for a possible return to the House and could announce his intentions soon.