Georgia News

WITH VOTING JUST 10 DAYS AWAY in Georgia's hotly contested runoff between Nathan Deal and Karen Handel for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, most of Cobb County's Republican establishment is now solidly in the Deal camp.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Karen Handel made her way through the crowd at a seafood restaurant Friday to Glynn County Commissioner Don Hogan.

Simone Moore won't be the tallest or shortest, or the student with the highest grade-point average, when the University of Georgia stages summer graduation exercises this morning.

More than ten months after the September floods in metro Atlanta, some disaster relief money is on the way to Georgia from Washington.

Leaders of Christ Church in Savannah have asked the state's top court to review a July 8 Court of Appeals decision that the church's historic downtown property belongs to the Episcopal Church.

Gov. Sonny Perdue will greet President Barack Obama planeside when the Democrat arrives in Georgia on Monday.

The former Georgia House speaker is contesting the results of the Democratic primary for state labor commissioner.

K.S. Kim, senior vice president of KMMG; Craig McDaniel, president of GNTC; Bill Bentley, assistant dean of Industrial Technologies Division and program director/instructor of Automobile Technology of GNTC; Ron Jackson, commissioner of TCSG.

A Calhoun man was hospitalized in police custody Friday after allegedly shooting his ex-girlfriend to death and wounding two teens before being shot by police.

Metro Nashville Police say they have charged a man with a second homicide after his arrest in Georgia.

Carol Crossa Georgia farm will be filled with movie lights, camera and action this weekend, but she may not be there during the shooting, even though film stars Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon may be.

Moscow has accused Georgia of non-constructive approach to the issues tied with the situation in the South Caucasus.

The checks are in the mail. Some 90,994 jobless Georgians will get their small portion of $76.2 million in unemployment insurance benefits after President Barack Obama extended the program last week.

State Sen. Preston Smith told The Associated Press on Thursday the woman left his office in 2003.

The Sarah Palin Express may be gaining even more steam, at least within the Republican Party.

All of Georgia's remaining candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor and at least one of its two U.S. Senate candidates say they support Arizona's immigration law and would support a similar one in Georgia.

A man waiting in a New York emergency room is now awaiting trial in Georgia. U.S. Marshals Tuesday arrested Daniel Lee Allen, who also goes by the alias "Rondell Quick," on an open warrant in connection to the slaying of a Greenville man.

A mother has been charged with murder after her 2-month-old son died of methamphetamine intoxication in March.

A Republican candidate for Georgia attorney general today acknowledged an extramarital affair with a former staffer, but said the relationship began after the woman was no longer an employee.

Editorial This week's heavy thunderstorms have brought dangerous lightning to the Coweta County area.