B.J. Williams

A handcuffed man was shot and killed by police Thursday in west Savannah, authorities said, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into it.

A once-convicted felon killed six of his grandchildren, including an infant, his adult daughter and himself in a shooting at the man's home in a small North Florida town Thursday, a sheriff said.

Scottish voters have resoundingly rejected independence, deciding to remain part of the United Kingdom after a historic referendum that shook the country to its core.

The number of jobs at U.S. airlines keeps growing although slowly as some of them post record profits.

A burglary investigation last month led Forsyth County authorities to an identity theft ring in a neighborhood in the south end of the county.

Last month, a Sugar Hill woman went to Gwinnett County School system officials, claiming her first grader had been assaulted in a school bathroom.

Habersham County authorities said Ga. Highway 365 southbound was closed at Duncan Bridge Road while emergency crews worked an accident in the area during Thursday's morning's rush hour.

The Georgia Department of Labor announced Thursday morning that the state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for August was 8.1 percent, up four-tenths of a percentage point from a revised 7.7 percent in July. The rate in August of last year was 8.2 percent.

Gwinnett County Fire Department officials said responded to an early morning business fire at 190 Buford Highway in Suwanee.

Kroger, the nation's largest grocery operator, said it needs to hire at least 2,000 employees for its Atlanta Division stores.