Ken Stanford

A law enforcement task force says it made more than 500 arrests for traffic offenses in a two-day sweep in metro Atlanta.

Police departments around the country are working to shield their radio communications from the public as cheap, user-friendly technology has made it easy for anyone to use handheld devices to keep tabs on officers responding to crimes.

Pope Cleghorn, Jr., 39, Villa Rica, was sentenced Friday to serve six years in federal prison on charges of bank fraud. Russell T. Long, 53, of Destin, Fla., previously pleaded guilty to conspiring with Cleghorn to defraud the bank.

Absentee ballots will be available starting Monday at the Hall County Elections Office for the Dec. 6 runoff for the state House District 25 post between Bobby Banks and Emory Dunahoo, and early voting begins then, too.

Gov. Nathan Deal announced Friday Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. will open an e-commerce fulfillment center in Pendergrass in Jackson County. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. will create up to 900 jobs over four years, and invest approximately $50 million. The company plans to be operational by summer 2012.

Organizers say about 270 people attended a vigil outside a federal immigration detention center in southwest Georgia.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will make a decision "sometime next week" on a request from Georgia to reduce the flow of water through Buford Dam and out of Lake Lanier.

The city of Gainesville has formally filed its reapportionment plans with the U.S. Justice Department (USDOJ) for approval.

With the first anniversary of last winter's major snowstorm just a couple of months away, transportation officials in Georgia are unveiling a newly designed inclement weather section of their website.

The head of the public defender's office for Hall and Dawson counties and Hall County Juvenile Court Judge Cliff Joliff have been presented top awards from two state legal organizations.