Ken Stanford

Supreme Court justices indicated Monday they are deeply divided over a challenge to the way most states execute prisoners by lethal injection, which critics say creates an avoidable risk of excruciating pain.

Gainesville police are investigating two separate weekend incidents in which three people were assaulted - and one of them may have been gang-related.

Meredith Emerson's father issued a public appeal Monday for the return of his daughter, who has been missing for almost a week.

Authorities say its possible the suspect in the case of a missing Buford woman could be connected to as many as four murders, including one in Forsyth County.

The governor's task force on education finance wants Georgia's public school systems to be allowed to use state funds with fewer restrictions.

A proposed controversial highway may avoid the northeast Georgia mountains and instead go through South Carolina.

Al-Qaida's American spokesman urged fighters to meet President Bush with bombs when he visits the Middle East, according to a new video posted on the Internet Sunday.

A Gainesville teenager has been killed in a traffic accident in Pennsylvania.

Heavy snow covered the Northern California mountains and rain and wind hit the West Coast as a third day of winter storms left at least three people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in California, Oregon and Washington without power.

The search for a 24-year-old hiker who disappeared from the northern Georgia woods on New Year's Day will be scaled back, authorities said Sunday. Authorities believe Meredith Emerson is no longer alive.