Bryan Pirkle

A group of demonstrators protesting police brutality and mass incarceration temporarily blocked traffic on a freeway in downtown Atlanta.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal says the first meeting has been scheduled for the state's newly formed Ebola response team.

A group of soldiers from the Augusta area is being sent to West Africa to help officials working to contain the spread of the Ebola virus.

The Georgia House Study Committee on the Role of the Federal Government in Education will hold its next meeting Tuesday in Oakwood.

A Texas-based cruise ship carrying a Dallas health care worker who is being monitored for signs of Ebola returned to port early Sunday.

The Governor

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal says state officials and hospitals are prepared if patients are diagnosed with Ebola, but he approves of calls to ban travel from impacted countries.

With an infusion of cash into the race for Georgia's open Senate seat, national Democrats are signaling they believe the state is still in play with less than three weeks left before the Nov. 4 election.

Human testing of an experimental Canadian-made Ebola vaccine began Monday, with federal officials saying the drug could be shipped to West Africa within months if it proves successful.

Early voting begins Monday in Georgia for the Nov. 4 general election.