Ken Stanford

Hundreds of people waited in a steady rain for about two hours at Laurel Park in North Hall Monday night for the annual July 4 fireworks show.

The National Weather Service says more showers and thunderstorms are expected across Georgia after rain disrupted some Fourth of July celebrations.

Mexican officials were considering calling off the search late Monday for seven U.S. tourists missing after their fishing boat capsized and turning their efforts to recovering bodies. One American has been confirmed dead.

Georgia gasoline prices declined another three cents last week, according to a report issued Monday by AAA Auto Club.

Jurors began deliberating Monday in the Casey Anthony murder trial after hearing prosecutors argue the woman killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee because the toddler interrupted her carefree partying and love life but were unable to reach a verdict.

The U.S. marked the 235th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence with parades, fireworks, barbecues - plus presidential campaigning, a White House birthday and competitive eating.

A French novelist will file a complaint on Tuesday accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape, her lawyer said, raising the prospect of a new sex assault investigation starting just as the U.S. case against the former International Monetary Fund chief falters.

With the fate of a proposal to crack down on illegal immigration still unknown in the frenetic final days of Georgia's legislative session, the bill's author was spotted several times huddled in hushed discussions in the Capitol hallways with D.A. King.

Brenau University senior Heather Hammontree, a psychology major from Buford, is the 2011-12 recipient of a $2,300 scholarship funded by the United Parcel Service Educational Endowment Fund through the Georgia Independent College Association (GICA).

Georgia is expanding a pilot program that sanctions some parolees by putting them to work rather than returning them to prison.