B.J. Williams

A call to Hall County 911 Wednesday night claiming that several women were being held hostage in a building in downtown Gainesville turned out to be a false alarm, but it was enough to send law enforcement scrambling.

A mounted police unit in Forsyth County has been disbanded, but the loss of those police horses will result in a larger force in Savannah.

George Beverly Shea, the booming baritone who sang to millions of Christians at evangelist Billy Graham's crusades, has died after a brief illness. He was 104.

Georgia's insurance commissioner says the state's arson-sniffing dog has died.

The man rescued by Hall County and Gainesville firefighters from the depths of a well Tuesday afternoon was flown to Atlanta Medical Center to be checked out.

A deputy warden and seven members of a specially trained team of guards at a state prison have been indicted on charges of repeatedly attacking inmates.

Dr. Allan Panter of Gainesville went to Boston to watch his wife run the Boston Marathon. He ended up as a first responder when a bomb exploded near him at the finish line.

The bombs that blew up seconds apart at the finish line of one of the world's most storied races left the streets spattered with blood and glass, three dead, more than 140 wounded and maimed and gaping questions of who chose to attack at the Boston Marathon and why.

Officials in Atlanta say they're stepping up security in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing.

Since April is Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Prevention Month, local advocates have renewed their push to train a portion of Hall County's adults in preventing child sexual abuse.