Kevin West

Elementary and middle-school students in Georgia continued a three-year trend of improving their reading and math scores on a test that evaluates knowledge of the state curriculum.

A McIntosh County inmate has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to close the current county jail and open the new four million detention center that was completed in February but has remained empty due to political infighting.

A motel just down the street from Turner Field has already felt the sting of a potential baseball strike, whether or not the players walk out Friday as threatened.

Medicare may cut off payments to Visiting Nurse Health System, metro Atlanta's largest home health provider, because of several cases of inadequate patient care and providing incomplete clinical records.

The sextet of singing bus drivers known as the METRA Balladeers will say sayonara to Columbus in November before heading to Japan to serenade the city of Kiryu.

A federal building in downtown Atlanta was evacuated Thursday after a bomb threat, but no explosives were found.

The CDC in Atlanta has confirmed six human cases of the West Nile virus in Georgia this year.

Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington plans to be in the crowd Saturday when his son plays in his first college football game.

The mayor of a southwest Georgia city is free on bond after being indicted on charges that he purchased fraudulent life insurance policies on at least 14 elderly and mentally infirm residents of an Albany assisted living home.

An autopsy shows the 16-year-old girl who died after completing a five-kilometer cross country race suffered a heart attack.