Kevin West

Atlanta Police are dropping charges against five youths in a police shooting case that left another teenager dead.

Mourners packed a Carroll County church for the funeral of a deputy killed in the line of duty.

The mother of an autistic man has avoided jail time after being convicted of obstructing a Clayton County police officer.

Clayton County police say a couple acted in self-defense by shooting and killing an intruder who knocked on their apartment door and forced them inside with a gun.

Georgians will share in homeland defense and prepare themselves to assist in disasters under a program announced by Governor Roy Barnes.

A Fort Eustis soldier found slain in his car on a city street had been absent without leave since Aug. 13, the Army said.

A seventh case of West Nile virus in Georgia has been reported, this time in southwest Georgia.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has chosen 53 agents to be the first people to respond to disasters in the state.

Dwaine Wilson, police chief in this suburb of Atlanta for 17 years, was fired for allegedly lying about a $200 personal purchase he made with a city credit card.

The former boyfriend of a Forest Park woman found dead in her home last week has been arrested in connection with her death.