Kevin West

The University of Georgia plans to purchase 456 acres of land in Clarke and Oglethorpe counties for the relocation of many of its agriculture facilities.

A 20-year-old Carroll County man was shot to death by deputies following a standoff at his home on Wednesday, authorities said.

Police in Hinesville, Ga. have arrested a man who investigators think killed a cook at a Sonic Drive-In in Raleigh last month, authorities said.

The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery drawing has increased to $50 million.

A quarter-mile stretch of dirt road in Tift County has become the first in Georgia to get sprayed with a ``road stabilization'' product designed to be a cheaper alternative to paving dirt roads.

In the race for Congress in southeast Georgia's First District, Democrat Don Smart, a Savannah attorney with no legislative experience, concedes he has a difficult battle against popular Republican Jack Kingston.

Atlanta ranked next to last -- ahead of only Dallas -- in a survey of the investment potential of the top 15 commercial real estate markets in the country.

A second federal lawsuit has been filed in a name dispute between University of the South in Sewanee and South University in Savannah.

Doctor Jeffrey Koplan, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was honored Wednesday with an annual lecture series in his name.

A doctor accused of falsifying drug tests for a 15-year-old and his father in exchange for sex with the teen's 13-year-old girlfriend, turned himself in to authorities Wednesday.