Ken Stanford

When the George E. Coleman Sr. Planetarium at the University of North Georgia's (UNG) Dahlonega Campus resumes public shows in January, a new DigiStar 5 Full Dome Digital Planetarium Projector will allow visitors to view an accurate depiction of the night skies from planets millions of miles away.

Two police officers were shot Friday morning near the eastern edge of Atlanta, and a suspected gunman was being sought, police said.

Photojournalist Michel du Cille, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who recently captured compelling images of Ebola patients and their caretakers, died in Liberia while on assignment for The Washington Post. He was 58.

Chrysler is bowing to demands from U.S. safety regulators and will add about 179,000 vehicles to a recall for air bags that could explode with too much force.

A group that promotes religious liberty has come to the defense of an Army chaplain who was reprimanded by his superiors for "using Christian scriptures and solutions" during a suicide training session with a group of soldiers in Dahlonega.

The House Ethics Committee issued letters of disapproval Thursday to two members of Congress for ethics violations and announced it is taking no further action in two other cases in which it essentially cleared lawmakers accused of wrongdoing.

Nearly 20 percent of U.S. consumers with credit records - 42.9 million people - have unpaid medical debts, according to a new report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday Indian tribes can grow and sell marijuana on their lands as long as they follow the same federal conditions laid out for states that have legalized the drug.

A U.S. agency's secret infiltration of Cuba's underground hip-hop scene to spark a youth movement against the government was "reckless" and "stupid," Sen. Patrick Leahy said Thursday after The Associated Press revealed the operation.

CIA Director John Brennan, responding to the Senate torture report, acknowledged Thursday in a rare televised news conference that "abhorrent" tactics were used on terror detainees and said it was "unknown and unknowable" whether the harsh treatment yielded crucial intelligence that could have been gained in any other way.