Ken Stanford

Their power ebbing, Senate Democrats launched a last-minute drive Saturday to confirm roughly 20 of President Barack Obama's nominees, and several Republicans blamed tea party-backed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for creating an opening for the outgoing majority party to exploit.

Thousands of protesters marched across the country Saturday - past the White House in the nation's capital, along iconic Fifth Avenue in New York and in front of Boston's Statehouse - to call attention to the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police and urge lawmakers to take action.

Police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of an Auburn man a week ago.

The Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) will host a holiday social - "Tamales for Justice" - Monday which will benefit the Latino Voter Defense Fund.

President Barack Obama says the U.S. must remain vigilant in the Ebola fight even though there have been no recent domestic transmissions.

Police in Portland have arrested a suspect in the shooting that injured three people outside an alternative high school.

Projects in Dawson and Jackson counties are included in recent contract awards by the Georgia Department of Transportation.

The head of a Cleveland police union says the officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy last month were not told by a dispatcher that the gun might be a toy or the suspect a child as initially relayed by a 911 caller.