Ken Stanford

Georgia's Labor Department failed to have adequate systems in place to detect and recover millions of dollars in unemployment benefits improperly paid over a three-year period despite a widely available system to cross-check new hires, according to a federal audit.

Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard used thousands in public funds for office parties, church donations and home security updates, according to a report by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published online Friday.

The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans is honored announces the winners of the Horatio Alger Georgia Scholarship. Students from Gainesville and Cumming are among the 50 recipients from Georgia this year.

For years, top officials of the Bush and Obama administrations dismissed fears about secret government data-mining by reassuring Congress that there were no secret nets trawling for Americans' phone and Internet records.

Soaking rains that spawned numerous flood warnings pushed some streams and creeks over their banks throughout the Northeast, yet the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season sped up the Eastern Seaboard without causing major damage.

Yonah Mountain Vineyards announces the fourth annual Crush Fest will be held Saturday, August 31, from 11:00 AM - 7:00 at the vineyard near Cleveland.

A man with a semi-automatic rifle killed at least six people and wounded several others Friday as he carried out a deadly rampage across several blocks of a normally idyllic beachfront city before police shot him dead in the Santa Monica College Library.

Two people were found dead Friday in a burned home near Santa Monica College, where someone sprayed a street corner with gunfire, wounding at least four people, authorities said.