B.J. Williams

An accused shoplifter is hospitalized in critical condition after he was shot by a Lilburn police officer Monday afternoon.

State officials confirmed Monday that a body pulled from Lake Lanier is that of a fisherman who had been missing since Feb. 11.

Pope Francis urged princes, presidents, sheiks and thousands of ordinary people gathered for his installation Mass on Tuesday to protect the environment, the weakest and the poorest, mapping out a clear focus of his priorities as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.

A lawyer for a woman who says Michael Jordan fathered her teenage son has withdrawn her paternity suit, but left open the possibility that it could be refiled.

As the Hall County School District prepares to open the STEM Magnet Academy at North Hall High School this fall, administrators have planned an information meeting for Thursday, March 21.

The Supreme Court argued Monday over whether states fighting voter fraud and illegal immigration can make people document their U.S. citizenship before allowing them to use a federal voter registration system that was designed to make it easier to vote.

A college student killed himself in a dorm at the University of Central Florida and investigators found explosives and guns in the room early Monday

For what's believed to be the first time in its history, the Meals on Wheels program will be able to provide meals for every person on its lunch list.

The commissioner of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice has chosen a new assistant commissioner.

A wildfire burning in a resort area outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee has destroyed more than 30 large rental cabins.