Ken Stanford

Savannah's new police chief is a veteran of Georgia law enforcement who has led the Athens-Clarke County department for the past 17 years.

Chrysler is recalling 184,215 SUVs worldwide because a wiring problem could disable their air bags and seat belt pretensioners.

Alarmed by the broad expansion of same-sex marriage set in motion by the U.S. Supreme Court, religious conservatives are moving their fight to state legislatures - seeking exemptions that would allow some groups, companies and people with religious objections to refuse benefits or service for gay spouses.

Customs and health officials at airports in Washington, Chicago, Atlanta and Newark will take the temperatures of passengers from three West African countries starting Thursday.

Brenau University

Democrats' high hopes of mitigating House losses in a rough election year have been dashed by reality.

Poison control workers say that as the e-cigarette industry has boomed, the number of children exposed to the liquid nicotine that gives hand-held vaporizing gadgets their kick also has spiked.

The death rate in the Ebola outbreak has risen to 70 percent and there could be up to 10,000 new cases a week in two months, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday.

The Georgia Department of Transportation has awarded contracts on 13 new highway infrastructure improvement projects, including pavement rehabilitation projects on Interstate Highways 16 and 20.