B.J. Williams

Officials with Forsyth County admit that they are baffled by a case in which dozens of black trash bags, some filled with human waste, are being tossed in a neighborhood near Cumming.

A family waiting on a new home will have to wait even longer now that thieves have damaged the Gainesville house that was being built by Habitat for Humanity volunteers.

Hall County drug agents started the New Year with the arrests of three people who apparently were running a drug operation out of an apartment on the east side of Gainesville.

Gov. Nathan Deal is scheduled to deliver his annual State of the State address on Jan. 17.

The Newtown schools superintendent says preparations have been made for a "normal" day, yet it will likely be anything but that when classes resume for Sandy Hook Elementary School students for the first time since a gunman killed 20 of their classmates.

Six people were killed in traffic crashes in Georgia over the 102-hour New Year's holiday travel period, including one person from north Georgia.

An emergency deal reached after weeks of rancorous negotiations will keep the U.S. from driving off the so-called fiscal cliff, but higher taxes and continued political bickering in Washington threaten to shake the fragile U.S. economy well into 2013.

The assistant director of security at the Augusta Youth Detention Campus, Melvin Womble, has been dismissed, the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice announced Tuesday.

A pre-dawn fire on Lakeview Street north of Gainesville destroyed a house.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton developed a blood clot in her head but did not suffer a stroke or neurological damage, her doctors said Monday. They say they are confident that she will make a full recovery.