B.J. Williams

An Italian passenger says the man who hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines jet threatened to crash it if the pilot kept trying to get back into the cockpit.

On a clear, moonlight night 150 years ago, the hand-cranked Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley glided out over glassy seas off South Carolina, sailing into history as the first submarine ever to sink an enemy warship.

A verdict in the city of Jacksonville is again raising the issue of self-defense and race in Florida, just seven months after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting of a black teenager, Trayvon Martin.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is probing the death of a teen who was fatally shot by a police officer in Bartow County.

A snake-handling pastor who appeared on the National Geographic television reality show "Snake Salvation" has died after being bitten by a snake during a weekend church service in Kentucky.

Gulf coast refinery maintenance began last week and gas prices already reflect increases. Southeast pump prices jumped as a whole last week and the nation's average for a gallon of regular gas climbed 7 cents from a week ago.

More than two dozen metro Atlanta and north Georgia post offices plan to be open on Monday, even though it's a federal holiday.

Flowery Branch police are investigating a shooting that left one man dead early Saturday morning

The snow storm this week has put a bit of a chill on Valentine's Day sales, at least for some local florists.

Authorities say a 5-year-old east Georgia girl has died after a candle sparked a fire in her home, which had lost power after this week's ice storm.