B.J. Williams

Lottery ticket-holders in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland each selected the winning numbers for the world record-breaking $640 million Mega Millions jackpot, lottery officials said early Saturday.

Lottery officials say they are increasing the MegaMillions lottery jackpot to $640 million, raising what was already a world-record prize.

The sheriff of Forsyth County is the object of some damaging TV and newspaper reports, but Ted Paxton says "petty politics" is behind it all.

Georgia transportation officials say they plan to erect 15 signs in the Statham area directing some trucks away from a railroad intersection where trucks have repeatedly become stuck on the steep grade.

A vote today by the Supreme Court on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will go a long way toward determining its fate but still may not be the final word.

There wasn't any money talk, but leaders from various Gainesville City departments cast a vision for the upcoming year for Gainesville City Council members at preliminary budget hearings Thursday morning.

The state labor department released preliminary unemployment numbers for February Thursday morning and the rate for the Georgia Mountains region dropped to 8.1-percent

Georgia lawmakers are bringing a quick end to this year's legislative session, as they wrap up an agenda focused on job creation and social issues.

The Army has filed murder charges against four soldiers in the shooting deaths of an ex-soldier who had been part of their brigade and his girlfriend

A JetBlue captain who yelled about a bomb and urged passengers to pray on a Las Vegas-bound flight has been suspended, the airline said Wednesday.