Two top Democrats drew last-minute challenges Friday as qualifying ended for the August 20 primaries, but there were no surprises in the races for governor and the U.S. Senate.
Poor inner-city and rural areas in Georgia still have trouble luring primary-care doctors, even after an audit three years ago criticized the state agency in charge of increasing access to health care.
Some of the nation's busiest airports are in line to get federal security screeners to replace the private employees now checking passengers and carry-on baggage for weapons and bombs.
Heavy rains brought in from the tropics drenched northeast Florida and southeast Georgia today, causing some street flooding and numerous traffic accidents.
The Georgia Supreme Court said today it would hear an appeal from death penalty inmate Wallace Fugate the third, who claims he was denied a fair hearing before the state parole board.
Federal authorities charged today that a ring of con-artists posing as part-time students took advantage of a "student-friendly" tuition refund policy at Temple University; to bilk the school out of $76 thousand.
The number of flathead catfish in southeast Georgia's Satilla River has been dwindling due to state efforts to fight back against the invasive Western fish.
