Ken Stanford

Georgia House Speaker David Ralston reiterated his endorsement of Republican Nathan Deal for governor while questioning former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's support for Deal's rival.

A song performed for Gainesville educators Wednesday morning was dedicated to one of their students as they met for their annual convocation.

The GBI is hailing the Kimberly's Call system as a success after the the arrest Tuesday of a suspect in a Habersham County armed robbery less than a day after the alert was sounded.

Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a key provision of President Barack Obama's health care law, the first such referendum in the country since the bill was passed and signed into law.

In a significant step toward stopping the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, BP said Wednesday mud that was forced down its blown-out well was holding back the flow of crude in the Gulf of Mexico and it was in a "static condition."

30-year-old Joseph C. Crawford, the alleged gunman in the July 22 Little Caesar's shooting/robbery, was arrested late Tuesday near Covington after a convenience store clerk recognized him.

A black warehouse driver who had complained of racial harassment at work went on a shooting rampage at a beer distributorship Tuesday after he was asked to quit, killing eight people before apparently committing suicide, authorities said.

Vice officers continued a crackdown on sex-related crimes in Hall County Monday with the arrests of two women on prostitution-related charges.

A court in Chattanooga has sentenced a northeast Georgia woman to eight years of probation in the death of her newborn in a college dormitory room.

The state has slapped Habersham County and the City of Cornelia with $7,500 in fines for alleged environmental violations.