B.J. Williams

Outgoing Hall County Commissioner Craig Lutz admitted that he was sometimes the guy who walked to the beat of a different drummer during his tenure in office, but he said Thursday, he thought that was a political positive.

No injuries were reported when a small apartment building next to a pet grooming business in Oakwood caught fire early Thursday morning

Veterans' health care facilities should strive to provide immediate mental health care for any who request it, the leader of the Department of Veterans Affairs said Wednesday in Atlanta amid concern in neighboring Alabama that average wait times are too long.

In an abrupt reversal, Kennesaw's mayor says all four council members who voted to deny a mosque's permit to open in a strip mall have told him they now want to change their decision.

A college intern at a Forsyth County elementary school is in trouble with the law and with her college for allegedly stealing an iPad from a 6-year-old student.

Hall County authorities are asking for some help from the public as they try to identify skeletal remains found two months ago on some property on M. Bailey Road in the east Hall area.

Hall County authorities said Wednesday morning that a suspect in a stabbing incident in the east Hall area has been arrested.

In a damning indictment of CIA practices, Senate investigators on Tuesday accused the spy agency of inflicting pain and suffering on al-Qaida prisoners far beyond its legal boundaries and then deceiving the nation with narratives of useful interrogations unsubstantiated by its own records.

An academic accreditation agency has approved the merger of two metro Atlanta schools.

Atlanta police say the same gun was used to kill two men who were shot as they slept outside in Atlanta last month.