Georgia News

Gov. Nathan Deal has announced a need-based scholarship to be privately funded and aimed at grooming Georgia middle school students for college.

I just discovered this news release and hadn't seen it reported elsewhere. Our honorable Judge Malihi evidently has a tradition of being overruled by the Secretary of State.

Georgia's top court on Monday struck down a state law designed to discourage assisted suicides after a legal battle brought by four members of a suicide group who said the law also violated free speech rights.

The Georgia Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case involving a woman found dead in a lagoon that was home to an eight-foot alligator in a subdivision near Savannah.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Jasmine James and Krista Donald each scored 18 points to help No.

Georgia's Republican primary is shaping up as a role reversal for the two leading candidates, with Newt Gingrich backed by establishment support and a home-state network, while Mitt Romney is trying to play the role of an insurgent spoiler.

The Summit County coroner's office says a 58-year-old man from Georgia died while skiing at Keystone Ski Resort.

The first signs that HOPE scholarship changes made last year are hurting some Georgia students and colleges are starting to crop up just as Tennessee considers imposing even tougher academic requirements of its own.

A Georgia university plans to ban smoking on its Savannah campus later this year.

I never want to see another person die right in front of me. Knowing he was the victim of a drunk driver who only got a six-year prison term hasn't helped my memories of seeing that accident develop as I followed the drunk driver, watching his pickup weave back and forth across the two-lane road.

A legislative logjam is building in the General Assembly as the Feb. 15 target date for passing local redistricting measures approaches.

EYE ON THE FORECAST A mild and humid Saturday morning with patchy fog, then mostly cloudy and warm with only isolated afternoon or evening showers.

A push by Republican leaders in the Georgia House to restore lost powers to the state ethics commission are being praised as a good start by advocates who say they would still like see more comprehensive ethics reform from lawmakers.

Campaign fundraising reports show that Georgians are opening their wallets wider for Mitt Romney than they are for Newt Gingrich, who represented the state in Congress for more than two decades.

Images of blue alien creatures from the movie "Avatar" filled the mind of 15-year-old Kellie Nicholson of Dalton's Whitfield Career Academy when she went to work on her model's face with blue eye shadow and black eye liner for an hour in an esthetics contest at Georgia Northwestern Technical College's Floyd County campus on Friday, Feb.

A The Johns Creek Police Department is asking the public's help in locating a missing male resident, Ross Matthew Pendley, age 26.

Despite the fact that he didn't come to court, and his lawyer refused to defend the case, President Barack Obama has won a case brought by several so-called "birthers" who sought to have him removed from the Georgia ballot for re-election on grounds that he is not a natural-born citizen of the United States.

The 2012 Legislative Session is underway with 14 of the 40 days already completed.

Lawmakers could soon decide whether to pass a constitutional amendment addressing a state Supreme Court ruling that put 16 charter schools serving 15,000 students in danger of closing.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili will make a brief visit to the U.S. Naval Academy.