B.J. Williams

A fiscal deadline all but blown, President Barack Obama says he once again wants to seek a big fiscal deal that would raise taxes and trim billions from expensive and ever growing entitlement programs. But with automatic federal spending cuts ready to start taking their toll, the path toward that grand bargain Obama campaigned on last year has significantly narrowed.

The mother of a young boy who was killed in a jet ski accident on Lake Lanier last summer says she wants punishment to be tougher for those who violate new boating safety measures now moving through the State Senate.

Court documents in a class-action lawsuit against furniture rental company Aaron's Inc. allege spyware installed on rented computers secretly sent more than 185,000 emails back to the company

Health officials say a food court at Georgia Gwinnett College has passed a follow-up inspection after scoring a failing grade of 64 out of 100 on an earlier review.

The Hall County School System officially opened a state-of-art Learning Commons at the Academies of Discovery in south Hall County this week.

Eleven Forsyth County sheriff's deputies who lost their jobs with the recent reorganization of the sheriff's office have hired a lawyer with the hope of being reinstated.

A Winder teenager has been arrested and charged with stabbing his brother at a family gathering.

A Buford home is unliveable after an early morning fire Wednesday.

Authorities say 10 students at a Gwinnett County high school have been disciplined after school officials say one of them brought marijuana brownies to school and shared them.

Clayton County officials say they have prime land near Atlanta's airport where a new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons could be built if the team can't work out a deal for a downtown Atlanta site.