B.J. Williams

A 20-year-old man was arrested and charged with shooting a new Atlanta police officer in the face Friday during a chase.

Gwinnett County has started a specialty court geared toward treating mentally ill people accused of committing crimes.

A man and a woman from Atlanta have been arrested by Forsyth County authorities and charged with damaging air pump machines at more than a half dozen convenience stores.

A 6-year-old boy playing with a lighter started a recent blaze that killed four of his siblings and left his mother badly burned, Rockdale County officials said Friday.

As the 2013 legislative session looms, State Sen. Butch Miller of Gainesville is expecting plenty of talk about money and how lawmakers will spend it.

The GBI said a Gwinnett County teenager has been arrested in the November death of a Valdosta State University student.

House Speaker David Ralston has broadly endorsed the idea of extending a high-profile hospital industry tax that generates a sizable portion of revenue for state health care.

Hall County fire investigators said a mobile home fire on Skelton Road Thursday afternoon was accidental.

Forsyth County fire investigators are trying to figure out what sparked a fire at a large workshp in a residential neighborhood on Samples Road Thursday morning.

A former Hall County jailer, who was fired earlier this week, now has been charged by the GBI with hitting a handcuffed inmate at the jail.