B.J. Williams

A physician with a years-long relationship with the Georgia Department of Corrections has bought a 700-bed former prison for $50,000 half its appraised value and stands to make millions running it as a nursing home for old and sick parolees.

State transportation officials are studying plans to widening a highway across Atlanta's far northern suburbs. They're also considering construction of a new highway to the north or south of State Route 20.

A young girl missing from her home in Peachtree Corners was found safe Monday night, according to Gwinnett County authorities.

Hall County will be adding one more facet to its accountability courts if grant monies come through as anticipated.

Gainesville High School received the 8-AAAAA Literary Championship on Saturday, March 8 at Apalachee High School.

A company that builds transmission lines for Georgia's electricity suppliers is investigating after a new line sagged onto distribution lines Saturday night in northwest Hall County.

The Gwinnett County Police Department issued a statement Monday afternoon stating officers are investigating the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl.

Drug-device maker Gerresheimer Peachtree City is launching a multi-million-dollar expansion in metro Atlanta expected to create 120 jobs.

In an appeal brought before the Georgia Supreme Court last fall, the justices have unanimously upheld murder convictions and life sentences against two men involved in a drug deal that went wrong in Barrow County in 2006.

With just three weeks left to sign up under President Barack Obama's health care law, a major survey tracking the rollout finds that the uninsured rate keeps going down.