B.J. Williams

Two Democratic lawmakers and the state's top attorney will decide whether to suspend state Rep. Tyrone Brooks, who is accused of misappropriating charitable donations.

Nineteen Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice investigators and the chief of investigations were suspended with pay Thursday while authorities investigate juvenile inmates' claims of sexual abuse at state detention centers.

Hall County Commissioners got their first official look at the general fund budget for the upcoming fiscal year last night, and while there's no plan to increase the millage rate, Commission Chairman Dick Mecum said it's going to be a tight year financially.

A 13-year-old girl was injured when she was hit by a car as she tried to run across Cleveland Highway near Clermont Thursday morning.

An early-morning fire swept through a duplex in Macon, killing a mother and three of her girls on Thursday.

Three people have been arrested after authorities found dozens of marijuana plants growing in a field in Nicholson Tuesday.

The Southern Baptist Convention approved a resolution Wednesday expressing its opposition to and disappointment in the Boy Scouts of America's new policy allowing gay Scouts.

Hall County Commissioner Scott Gibbs said Wednesday he sees no way around rolling up taxes or increasing the millage rate for the county's fire fund in the upcoming budget.

A man accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland, Ohio home for about a decade pleaded not guilty Wednesday to hundreds of charges, including rape and kidnapping.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is eliminating its Handwriting Analysis Unit, which had been operating for 20 years.