B.J. Williams

The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that the unemployment rate in the Northeast Georgia region decreased to 6.3 percent in February

A federal judge in Atlanta has ruled certain non-profit organizations in Georgia affiliated with the Catholic Church are not subject to a contraception mandate included in the president's health care law.

A man and woman, both from Tennessee, have been arrested on drug charges following a traffic stop last week on I-985.

Malaysia says a satellite has captured images of 122 objects in the Indian Ocean that might be from the missing plane.

U.S. Coast Guard crews and others searching Tuesday for two people who were aboard a small plane that went missing near Georgia's coastline found debris suspected to be pieces of the plane's battery and luggage in a marshy area.

With search and cadaver dogs leading the way, rescuers using small bulldozers and their bare hands pushed through sludge strewn with splintered homes and twisted cars to find 10 more bodies in the debris of a Washington state mudslide, authorities said.

Hall County has just recorded its third rabies case of the year, and this time, the rabid animal bit a person.

A former Barrow County middle school teacher has been indicted by a federal grand jury on child pornography charges.

U.S. Coast Guard officials plan to resume searching Tuesday for two people aboard a plane that went missing in the St. Simons Island area near Georgia's coastline.

First there was a "whoosh." Elaine Young said she thought it might be a chimney fire, a rush of air that lasted about 45 seconds. But when she stepped outside there was ominous silence. Something felt very, very wrong.