B.J. Williams

Transportation officials report that a north Georgia mountain road was shut down for awhile New Year's Day following a rockslide in Union County.

Police say a second suspect has been charged with murder and armed robbery in the killing of a U.S. Army soldier, who was fatally shot on an Atlanta bike path.

A child was transported to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville after she suffered smoke inhalation in a fire at her home Thursday morning.

Police in an Atlanta suburb are investigating after a young man's body was found face-down in a creek behind a middle school.

Former first lady Barbara Bush remains hospitalized with a respiratory-related issue, but her condition hasn't changed, a spokesman for her husband's office said Wednesday.

The nation's first recreational pot industry opened in Colorado on Wednesday, kicking off an experiment that will be followed closely around the world and one that activists hope will prove that legalization is a better alternative than the costly American-led drug war.

A northwest Georgia girl has been hospitalized after being kicked in the head by a stray mule.

The murder case against a Norcross mother and her boyfriend has been bound over to superior court after a probable cause hearing in Gwinnett County magistrate court Tuesday.

The Boy Scouts of America will accept openly gay youths starting on New Year's Day, a historic change that has prompted the BSA to ponder a host of potential complications - ranging from policies on tentmates and showers to whether Scouts can march in gay pride parades.

Dave Martin, a longtime Associated Press photographer based in Montgomery, Ala., died after collapsing on the Georgia Dome field after the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Tuesday night.