AGCO Corporation, a farm machinery manufacturer based in Duluth, Georgia, said Tuesday it is closing its British tractor manufacturing plant, slashing 900 jobs at the company.
Kennesaw-based CryoLife Incorporated shares tumbled as much as 15 percent Tuesday after revealing that its human-tissue processing laboratories received a warning from the Food and Drug Administration.
Cherokee County authorities are trying to determine what caused a two-vehicle accident that killed a five-year-old boy and left his mother and six-year-old brother hospitalized.
Georgia officials agreed Tuesday to spend up to $24 million for 1,500 acres of land in Chatham County -- a step that could be part of the state's bid to win a heavily sought DaimlerChrysler cargo van plant.
A Georgia teenager settled a Securities and Exchange Commission proceeding today in Washington, claiming he posted a bogus news story on Internet message boards last month to boost shares of Viragen International Incorporated.
Georgia's chief medical examiner said Tuesday that 12 more of the corpses discovered at the Tri-State Crematory in Noble have been identified through DNA testing, bringing the total number of 167.
Former Sheriff Sidney Dorsey wanted his successor strangled, but the men who carried out the murder shot him instead to avoid a struggle, the star prosecution witness against Dorsey testified Tuesday.
