B.J. Williams

President Barack Obama praised outgoing Health and Human Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for helping to steer his health care law's comeback after a rocky rollout, even as he nominated a successor aimed at helping the White House move past the political damage.

An eastern Georgia man accused of stabbing a pet pig nearly two dozen times has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Gov. Nathan Deal says the state and Georgia Regents University will work to help children with seizure disorders get access to a form of medical marijuana.

The five people accused of kidnapping a North Carolina prosecutor's father sent his wife a picture of him tied up in an Atlanta apartment and threatened to torture and dismember him, authorities said

The man with a long history of arrests whom authorities are seeking in a deadly car crash into a Florida day care center was the driver of the vehicle that fled the scene, the Florida Highway Patrol said early Thursday.

It was just before the start of class and the hallways were packed as usual with students at their lockers or chatting with friends.

Forsyth County authorities are currently investigating a bank robbery that happened Wednesday morning on Buford Highway at Trammel Road.

Hall County Fire Marshal Scott Cagle said it appears a fire that broke out in a mobile home on Old Athens Highway early Wednesday morning was accidental.

University of Georgia police say they've determined that a student found dead in his dorm room in January died of an accidental drug overdose.

The case of two young Buford brothers killed in a boating collision in June 2012 was the focal point of this year's National Crime Victim's Rights Week commemoration in Gainesville.