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Floyd Adams Jr., who in 1995 became the first African-American elected to serve as mayor of Savannah, died Saturday. He was 68.

Georgia would take the first steps to regulating the use of drones through legislation under consideration in the General Assembly.

Just 60 miles south of Glynn County, the lively community of Fernandina Beach, Fla., relies heavily on tourists - just like the Golden Isles.

Some Georgia educators say they feel slighted by pay increases for nationally board certified teachers being left out of the state's education budget.

An Indonesian volcano that has been rumbling for months unleased a major eruption Saturday, killing 14 people just a day after authorities allowed thousands of villagers who had been evacuated to return to its slopes, saying that activity was decreasing, officials said.

Austrian-born actor Maximilian Schell, a fugitive from Adolf Hitler who became a Hollywood favorite and won an Oscar for his role as a defense attorney in "Judgment at Nuremberg," has died. He was 83.

Endangered piping plovers blend into the background of sandy beaches like Tybee's, where these small shorebirds are known to visit. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has identified global warming and wind turbines as emerging threats to these birds.

As New Jersey lawmakers last year began investigating lane closures that caused four days of brutal traffic jams near the George Washington Bridge, Gov. Chris Christie was insistent about one thing: He did not know about the tie-ups until they were over.

A 34-year-old man is accused of using a stolen tow truck to take cars that were abandoned in Atlanta during this week's storm.

To hear Natasha Stewart tell it, she was just trying to help an insecure woman when she helped arrange for her to get silicone injections in her buttocks, shots that prosecutors say were deadly. A jury disagreed, convicting Stewart on Friday of culpable negligence manslaughter.