Ken Stanford

An aftershock from the earthquake that shook a large part of South Carolina and north Georgia Friday night rattled a smaller area Sunday afternoon.

The Eisenhower Tree, so much a part of Augusta National that not even a sitting U.S. president could have it taken down, was removed from the 17th hole this weekend because of damage from an ice storm, the club said Sunday.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is probing the death of a teen who was fatally shot by a police officer in Bartow County.

Smyrna police say an 8-month-old baby was killed and two other children were injured when a man accused of drunk driving crashed into a taxi head on.

The University of North Georgia (UNG) will extend the academic calendar by four days, from Friday, April 25 to Thursday, May 1, to make up some of the time lost to snow and ice this year.

Rezoning requests for 1,052 new housing units, most of them single-family residences, are scheduled to be considered by the Forsyth County Planning Commission later this month.

Climate change may be the world's "most fearsome" weapon of mass destruction and urgent global action is needed to combat it, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday, comparing those who deny its existence or question its causes to people who insist the Earth is flat.

The National Security Agency was involved in the surveillance of an American law firm while it represented a foreign government in trade disputes with the United States, The New York Times reported in a story based on a top-secret document obtained by former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden.