Kevin West

Smoking in a car carrying a child would be illegal under a bill proposed Wednesday in the Georgia House.

A day after announcing it was trimming its work force by 25 percent, EarthLink is reporting Wednesday it lost $36.9 million in the fourth quarter.

Oconee County commissioners have worked up a 15-page ordinance that would regulate adult-themed businesses in the county.

The National Science Center, an arm of the Army based at Fort Gordon near Augusta, might have to close this summer if it's annual state funding of $1.5 million isn't continued.

The Milledgeville City Council has voted to switch to a city manager form of government, effectively stripping Mayor Floyd Griffin of the powers Milledgeville's mayors have had for 200 years.

A Democrat from Savannah introduced a bill in the Senate Tuesday that, if it passed, would re-regulate the natural gas industry.

State health officials said flu cases are increasing in Georgia and they expect the numbers to rise in the coming weeks.

A federal magistrate sentenced 15 protesters Tuesday to federal prison terms for trespassing on Fort Benning during a demonstration against the post's training school for Latin American soldiers.

Five members of a suburban Atlanta family were found shot dead in their apartment Tuesday in an apparent murder-suicide.

A Clayton County jury is considering the fate of a teenager accused in the brutal robbery and slaying of her grandparents.