B.J. Williams

Georgia is trying to give young criminal offenders an advantage as they seek to enter the workforce.

A Gwinnett County 18-year-old has been charged with vehicular homicide in the death of a friend and classmate

Authorities are exploring the idea of bringing jurors who live outside the Athens area to the northeast Georgia community to decide the fate of a man charged with killing a police officer.

A Gainesville City Schools proposal to allow school resource officers (SROs)to have access to rifles inside school buildings is nothing new. The plan first surfaced after the deadly school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut.

With school violence a growing problem across the nation, the Gainesville City School Board Tuesday night discussed the possibility of placing rifles in the city schools, so that school resource officers would have easier access to weapons.

Georgia's State Attorney General is getting ready for a threatened lawsuit over the state's water use.

Increasing numbers of police officers are leaving a suburban Atlanta county, and many of them say low pay is the reason.

The man who held three women captive in his home for nearly a decade before one escaped and alerted authorities has been found dead and is believed to have committed suicide, a prison official said.

Republican House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday he backs U.S. military strikes in Syria, but Georgia's Ninth District Congressman says he cannot support any military just yet.

The Georgia State Patrol said a man was killed early Tuesday morning as he walked along Highway 211 in the Braselton area.