Bryan Pirkle

A SWAT standoff in Gwinnett County ended peacefully Thursday night when authorities were able to convince a murder suspect barricaded inside a Lawrenceville home to surrender himself to police custody.

Authorities suspended the search for a missing swimmer on Lake Lanier Tuesday evening and planned to resume search efforts at daybreak.

The Pentagon says U.S. military forces have targeted the Islamic extremist al-Shabaab network in an operation in Somalia.

Two Gainesville residents face numerous drug-related charges after being arrested in Hall County on Friday.

President Barack Obama tamped down the prospect of imminent U.S. military action in Syria on Thursday, saying ``we don't have a strategy yet'' for degrading the violent militant group seeking to establish a caliphate in the Middle East.

An audit has found that the Atlanta Department of Public Works can't account for at least $2.2 million in materials and is vulnerable to theft.

Vice President Joe Biden is calling top Iraqi leaders to call for the formation of a new government and encourage their opposition to the Islamic State group.

The state Board of Education has scheduled hearings in Gainesville and Buford on the controversial Common Core Standards and other public education issues.

The Obama administration is promising to change the way travelers can ask to be removed from its no-fly list of suspected terrorists banned from air travel.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in downtown Atlanta to protest the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed man who was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.