Kevin West

State officials acknowledged Monday that the Division of Family and Children Services did not closely monitor the case of a 13-year girl found dead in a Cherokee County home last week.

Cobb County police are investigating possible explosives left at Pope County High School.

A judge denied bond for a Douglas County man who led police on a high-speed chase that ended in a head-on collision with a deputy.

A South Carolina man suspected of killing two people in North Carolina and one in his home state was sought Monday and thought to be in Georgia.

A Comair pilot refused to fly Israel's deputy foreign minister because one of his bodyguards did not have required paperwork to bring his loaded gun on the plane from Cincinnati to Toronto.

A man accused of killing two brothers doing volunteer work at a boys home in northwest Georgia has waived extradition in Arizona, where he was captured 12 days later.

A woman accused of fatally shooting her two sons in a nursing home because they suffered from Huntington's disease has been denied bond after failing a psychological evaluation.

A judge says he's angry that Derek Watson has completed just a third of his court-ordered community service and wanted to send South Carolina State's new running back to jail.

Wayne Arnold, one of four Georgia recruits who had trouble qualifying academically, has passed an Internet-based correspondence course that reportedly fulfills his requirements for a high school diploma.

A former metro editor from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has been named editor of the Rome News-Tribune.