B.J. Williams

As police scoured mountain peaks for days, using everything from bloodhounds to high-tech helicopters, the revenge-seeking ex-cop they wanted was hiding among them, holed up in a vacation cabin across the street from their command post.

A Blairsville man is in custody after taking his estranged wife and three children hostage and shooting another man, according to Towns County authorities.

The Department of Natural Resources and Forsyth County authorities are looking for a man believed missing in Lake Lanier.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has now confirmed the body that was found in an abandoned well is that of 33-year-old Bonny Anne Cooner.

Hall County Commission Chairman Dick Mecum said at Monday afternoon's commissioner work session he's not sure how the commission board will vote Thursday on the Georgia 365 sewer proposal.

Ninth District Congressman Doug Collins will be holding an open house at his district office in Gainesville next week.

The Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce is using a new video to market the region, hoping to attract new business and thus, new jobs, to Gainesville-Hall County.

The mayor of Wilmington, Del., says a man suspected of killing his wife and wounding two others at the New Castle County Courthouse is dead.

Georgia state lawmakers are once again contesting their border with Tennessee in an effort to siphon Tennessee water across the state line.

Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday that he would resign Feb. 28 the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years.