B.J. Williams

Georgia has unveiled new rules banning references to guns, drugs and alcohol on personalized license plates.

The first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season has gotten a little stronger as it heads toward Florida's western coast and a new tropical storm warning has been issued for a swath of the U.S. East Coast.

The man arrested at his Jefferson home Monday morning has been charged with murder in the shooting deaths of his wife and 13 year old son.

Authorities said Wednesday afternoon Leslie Legg, 31, of Gainesville was the man killed when he pulled into the path of a dump truck on Highway 60 in south Hall County.

A government report blasting the Internal Revenue Service for its spending on seminars, speakers and training videos lists 22 Georgia conferences at high-end hotels in downtown Atlanta and on St. Simons Island off the Georgia coast.

A building collapsed Wednesday on the edge of downtown, and the fire commissioner said as many as eight to 10 people were believed trapped in the rubble.

A Gwinnett County girl had to have a series of four rabies shots after she was attacked by a dog this past Friday on Cochran Road in Hall County.

The Hall County School Board has adopted a tentative budget for the upcoming fiscal year, but to make up for lost state revenues and an increase in insurance contributions, there will have to be a tax increase.

Children

Five school systems in the north Georgia area will share in grant money from the Gouizeta Foundation of Atlanta to boost participation in Advanced Placement, or AP, classes.