B.J. Williams

U.S. employers added 162,000 jobs in July, the fewest since March. The gains were enough to lower the unemployment rate to a 4.5 -year low of 7.4 percent, a good sign in an otherwise lackluster report.

The United States is closing its embassies and consulates throughout the Muslim world on Sunday after receiving an unspecified threat, officials said.

With as much as five inches of rain falling across parts of north Georgia overnight and early Thursday morning, authorities are scrambling to repair collapsed roadways and rescue people trapped by high water.

Georgia Southern University officials say the school is using a $385,000 grant to study the impact of concussions on football players.

An FBI agent has described some of the conditions found inside a Cleveland house where three women were imprisoned for a decade, include a makeshift front-door alarm system and a heavy curtain shielding the second floor.

Authorities say they still don't have much to go on as they continue to investigate an attack on a woman inside her north Hall County home Wednesday morning.

Jackson County authorities said a rendering truck carrying a load of chicken parts has spilled that load onto Highway 129 at Hog Mountain Road.

Georgia Department of Public Health officials say they're investigating four cases of a gastrointestinal illness that has sickened more than 370 people in 15 states.

Georgia State University officials say that six students have complained after seeing fliers around campus advertising a new student club known as the White Student Union.