Bryan Pirkle

WDUN's Derreck Booth appeared on the Afternoon News Wrap this week to talk with Col. Wayne Mock, a Lake Lanier kayaker whose life was recently saved through a combined rescue effort from local and state authorities.

Dawson County authorities have arrested a Cumming man after a truck was driven into a Dawsonville Wal-Mart early Sunday morning.

The number of traffic fatalities rose in Georgia for the first time in nine years in 2015, due in large part to distracted driving.

Two Barrow County women were arrested this week for allegedly selling methamphetamine and marijuana out of their live-in camper.

Georgia has executed a former Navy crewman for killing a fellow sailor whose dismembered remains were found in two states.

The United States and Cuba will sign an agreement next week to resume commercial air traffic for the first time in five decades, starting the clock on dozens of new flights operating daily by next fall, U.S. officials said Friday.

A police officer in suburban Atlanta was shot twice and killed Thursday by a suspect who was also wounded during a law enforcement operation, authorities said.

Hoping for survival in the South, a muddled field of Republican presidential contenders descended Wednesday on South Carolina, no closer to clarity about who can stand between Donald Trump and their party's nomination.

No one was seriously injured when a fire broke out inside a Gainesville residence early Tuesday evening.

​Early voting begins Monday in Hall County for the March 1 presidential primaries.