B.J. Williams

Authorities have arrested the police chief of a small west Georgia city who is accused of soliciting young men for sex.

The Madison County School Board apparently has voted to alter a monument on the high school campus that displays Biblical scripture along with the school logo.

A second health care worker at a Dallas hospital who provided care for the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. has tested positive for the disease, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Wednesday.

Gwinnett County police say two teens and the suspected gunman are dead in a shooting that also left two women wounded.

Phil E. Jackson, the former longtime Sports Editor for the Times and a sports play-by-play announcer for WGGA (now 1240 ESPN Radio) and WDUN has died at the age of 84.

Authorities in Barrow County are on the lookout for two men who robbed a jewelry store at gunpoint Tuesday morning.

Police say an 87-year-old man stopped for driving nearly 100 mph on a southern Indiana highway believed he was in Georgia where family members had been looking for him.

A severe storm system roughed up much of the South for a second day Tuesday, knocking out power to tens of thousands as it snarled morning commutes and kept many under a tornado watch.

The Oakwood City Council voted unanimously for a tax increase of nearly 50-percent at a meeting Monday night.

Authorities have recovered the body of a Decatur man who drowned in Lake Lanier while trying to retrieve his boat when it drifted out onto the lake.