Ken Stanford

The Georgia Senate has approved a bill that would privatize some state child welfare services.

A school in suburban Atlanta was placed on lockdown after a teen carrying a gun was arrested near campus.

Boosting the federal minimum wage as President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are proposing would increase earnings for more than 16.5 million people by 2016 but also cut employment by roughly 500,000 jobs, Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst said Tuesday.

While many states passed sweeping abortion laws last year, the Iowa General Assembly endorsed just one - a perplexing measure befitting one of the few legislatures under divided control.

President Barack Obama wants to put major emerging trade deals with Europe and Asia on a "fast track" to congressional passage. But with midterm elections looming, many fellow Democrats are working to sidetrack them instead.

The latest winter storm to pound Georgia with ice and snow caused an estimated $25 million in damage.

A quick-moving storm brought several inches of snow as well as rare "thundersnow" to parts of the winter-weary East Coast, prompting speed restrictions on Pennsylvania highways on Tuesday, days after the Southeast and Northeast were paralyzed with heavy snow, ice and massive power outages.

A woman convicted of killing her pregnant friend and cutting the baby from her womb was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison while the victim's father sat in court holding his daughter's ashes.