B.J. Williams

The impasse over the federal budget has shut down the Museum of Aviation at Robins Air Force Base in central Georgia.

Republican David Perdue says he's investing $1 million into his campaign for Georgia's open U.S. Senate seat.

Hall County fire investigators trying to determine what sparked a fire a vacant mobile home in the north end of the county early Friday morning.

Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro may have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, not suicide, and two prison guards falsified logs documenting their observation of him in the hours before he died, the state said Thursday.

House Speaker John Boehner told Republican lawmakers Thursday he will give President Barack Obama a proposal extending the government's ability to borrow money through Nov. 22 - but only if he agrees to negotiate over ending the partial government shutdown and a longer-term increase in the debt ceiling.

While North Georgia Congressman Doug Collins said he can't predict how many days the partial government shutdown will last, he does believe that Democrats and Republicans can at least come to a short term agreement to get the government running again.

Voting is now underway on names for the twin giant panda cubs born in July at Zoo Atlanta.

Police in Auburn said Wednesday they are on the lookout for a 50-year-old woman who has been missing since Saturday.

At last report, three adults remained in jail in Gwinnett County after police found two toddlers left alone in filthy conditions in a Duluth home.

Georgia Power will bestow $1,000 awards this month on two area teachers as part of their New Teacher Assistance Grant program.