Ken Stanford

House Republicans are proposing to shake up the way the Georgia Department of Transportation is run.

Two men accused of aiding terrorists - one of them from Dawson County - have told a federal judge they may want to represent themselves in their upcoming trials.

The 61st annual International Poultry Expo (IPE) opens a three-day run in Atlanta today.

A second suspect has been arrested in connection with a three-year-old Gwinnett County murder.

Federal officials say the Georgia peanut processing plant that's at the center of a national salmonella outbreak had a history of problems it failed to correct. And, the first suit has been filed in connection with the outbreak.

After a year of droughts and rising costs, the worst may be behind for Georgia agriculture . That's according to specialists from the University of Georgia who were in Gainesville Tuesday.

The attorney for Regions Bank in a suit against a downtown Gainesville development says the suit was filed only after negotiations to settle the matter out of court failed.

As the drought's grip on Georgia lessens, northeast Georgia remains the hardest hit place in the state.

Ohio reports one more case related to the nationwide salmonella outbreak, keeping the state's total the highest in the nation.

Sales of existing homes posted an unexpected increase last month, as sales of bargain-basement foreclosures in California and Florida boomed, closing out the worst year for the U.S. real estate market in more than a decade.