ATLANTA - Georgia is pioneering a strategy to eliminate parole offices, an effort officials say allows the officers to spend more time working with people in the community and also saves money.
ATLANTA - When Victor Hill took office as sheriff while under indictment, Clayton County found itself in an unusual situation with tricky legal questions.
To avoid potential conflicts of interest, lawyers cannot represent more than one of the 35 defendants in the case involving a cheating scandal in the Atlanta public schools, a judge said ...
A federal appeals court that stepped in at the last minute to halt the execution of a Georgia man in February has lifted its stay, clearing the way for a new execution date - though the state ...
The Georgia firefighters taken hostage following a phony medical call joked with their captor to gain his trust and teased that he hadn't planned the ordeal well because he didn't have a pot of ...
SUWANEE, Ga. — A gunman who lured firefighters with an emergency call, then held four of them hostage for hours before being shot to death faced a series of calamities before he lashed out.
Atlanta police want to meet with residents of a neighborhood where people threw bricks at police cars amid anger over what they say was excessive force by officers during a recent arrest, the ...
About three dozen educators were indicted over a standardized test cheating scandal, with former Superintendent Beverly Hall facing charges including racketeering, false statements and theft.
ATLANTA - A Georgia woman whose image was used in advertisements for a Girls Gone Wild video without her authorization has grounds to sue the video's producers under Georgia law, the state's ...
The rapid spread of clinics that officials think are illegally prescribing or dispensing painkillers led Georgia senators to pass legislation Thursday to try to get rid of illegitimate businesses.
A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a section of a Georgia law that would have made it a crime to knowingly harbor or transport an illegal immigrant while committing another crime.
The Georgia attorney general and other law enforcement officials kicked off a public awareness campaign Monday to target sex trafficking with the focus on those who pay for sex.
ATLANTA - Some changes to a bill that was intended as a fix for unintended consequences of a 2011 crackdown on illegal immigration have turned a bill that had universal support into a rallying ...
A federal judge on Monday allowed the Georgia governor's removal of two-thirds of the school board members in a suburban Atlanta school district to move forward, although legal questions remain.
Four former peanut company employees have been charged with scheming to manufacture and ship salmonella-tainted peanuts that killed nine, sickened hundreds and prompted one of the largest recalls ...
The state has 17 vials of pentobarbital, which is enough for six lethal injections, corrections officials said. Georgia Department of Corrections spokeswoman Gwendolyn Hogan did not respond to ...
A lawyer for a man set to be executed next week asked the Georgia parole board and a state judge to reconsider his client's case in light of new evidence.
Lawyers for a Georgia man set to be executed next week released sworn statements Thursday from three doctors who originally testified for the state but who now say they've changed their opinions ...
