ATLANTA — The new $1.4 billion international terminal at the world's busiest airport opened today.

Feds arrest third airline worker accused of trying to smuggle drugs into US on jet

Justifiable homicides are climbing in Georgia, leading some to link the rise with the "stand your ground" law approved in the state in 2006

COLUMBUS, Ga. - Lance Brown was hungry and homeless, so he decided to get thrown in jail by hurling a brick through a glass door at the Columbus courthouse building.

Major League Baseball gets a hit with its mobile app, MLB At Bat 2012, which lets die-hard fans stay updated.

ATLANTA — A jury Thursday spared the life of an inmate who faced the death penalty for killing his cellmate at the federal prison in Atlanta, sentencing him instead to life in prison.

A jury is considering whether Brian Richardson should face the death penalty for his cellmate's murder.

ATLANTA - The Georgia pardons board made the rare decision Friday to spare the life of a condemned man who was set to die this week for the 1991 murder of his ex-classmate.

A top Georgia lottery official gave an icy reception Thursday to an ambitious proposal to build a gambling complex in Atlanta's suburbs, casting doubt on whether the $1 billion project will move ...

Four former NFL players who sued the league Monday in a state court in Atlanta could be leading a wave of new lawsuits that cite the New Or­leans Saints' bounty system for hard hits as evidence ...

ATLANTA - Prosecutors say they have found no evidence that mental impairment or racial bias affected any cases handled by a disgraced judge sent to prison for buying drugs with a stripper.

2 suspects in Georgia terror plot plead guilty of conspiring to obtain explosives, silencer

ATLANTA - The health care think tank created by Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has filed for bankruptcy.

A Georgia inmate who was hospitalized after he was beaten while handcuffed is claiming that the attack was part of a broader pattern of illegal conduct by authorities.

ATLANTA - When Jack Camp resigned from the federal bench after pleading guilty to drug-related charges, a round of appeals from criminal defendants he sentenced was expected.

ATLANTA - Federal bank regulators filed a lawsuit Friday against 10 former directors and officers of a failed Georgia bank that collapsed and led to a wide-ranging criminal investigation and ...

Dan O'Leary said Tuesday that he wants to build a $1 billion entertainment complex near Norcross that includes a towering hotel, a spacious theater and a game floor with 7,500 video lottery machines.

NORCROSS, Ga. - A gunman walked into the Su Jung Health Sauna, argued with someone and then opened fire, killing two of his sisters and their husbands, then himself, authorities said Wednesday

A Georgia middle school pupil claimed in a lawsuit Wednesday he was humiliated and traumatized when he was brought to a vice principal's office and forced to strip in front of classmates who said ...

Georgia lawmakers have plenty of leeway over how to use a significant chunk of the $815 million the state's receiving as part of the massive national settlement over mortgage abuses.