Bryan Pirkle

An attorney for Georgia's ethics commission is asking a judge to avoid an upcoming trial in the case of a former employee who alleges retaliation for investigating ethics complaints against Gov. Nathan Deal.

House Republican leaders are openly struggling to devise a way forward on must-do legislation to increase the government's borrowing cap.

The federal government says it will temporarily suspend sales of U.S. Treasury securities to state and local governments starting at noon on Friday, its first step to avoid breaching the nation's borrowing limit this year.

A bill has been filed in the state Senate that would have Georgia move toward privatizing some state child welfare services.

The head of Georgia's emergency office helped plan for the 1996 Olympics and an international meeting of foreign leaders on the state's coastline. He leads a national association of disaster planners and testified to Congress about the threat of cyberattacks. Yet a simple snowstorm could imperil his career.

Are autopsies medical records or public records? South Carolina's Supreme Court will begin grappling with that question Wednesday, when it hears a lawsuit by a Sumter County newspaper against the county's coroner.

The handlers for groundhog Punxsutawney Phil say he's forecasting six more weeks of what already has felt like a brutally long and cold winter.

The Flowery Branch City Council has hired a new City Clerk following the resignation of the former clerk earlier this month.

Legislation for federal funding to help protect student athletes from concussions got the National Football League's backing Monday in the shadow of the stadium where the Super Bowl will be played this weekend.

The federal government would pay for GPS tracking devices for autistic children under legislation proposed Sunday by Sen. Chuck Schumer and named for a New York City boy who wandered away from his school three months ago and was found dead in a city river.