By EMILIE MEGNIEN and RUSS BYNUM NAHUNTA, Ga. (AP) — A volunteer firefighter died battling a wildfire in northern Florida while more than 120 homes have been destroyed in southeast Georgia and thousands more remain threatened by two large blazes, one of which…
By EMILIE MEGNIEN, RUSS BYNUM and JEFF MARTIN NAHUNTA, Ga. (AP) — Some of the destructive wildfires tearing through Georgia this week are being fed by not only a persistent drought, but also by fallen trees and limbs scattered across the South by Hurricane Helene well over a…
By RUSS BYNUM and JEFF MARTIN NAHUNTA, Ga. (AP) — Wildfires burning across the southeastern U.S. were intensifying Wednesday after destroying nearly 50 homes in southeastern Georgia and forcing evacuations and school closures in some communities. Some of the biggest blazes were along Georgia’s coast…
ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat who was seeking his 13th term in Congress despite challenges from within his party, has died. He was 80. Scott was Democrats’ ranking member on the House Agriculture Committee after…
By JEFF AMY RINGGOLD, Ga. (AP) — Republican Clay Fuller on Tuesday won Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former U.S. House seat in Georgia, turning back a Democratic challenge with the help of President Donald Trump’s endorsement despite uneasiness over the war in Iran.…
By JEFF AMY ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia could become the first state to require every student to be checked for weapons when arriving at a public school each day. A bill is nearing passage that would require weapons detection systems in…
By EMILIE MEGNIEN and JEFF MARTIN JASPER, Ga. (AP) — There was a shooting Tuesday at a Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in a small town at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains in Georgia, and the gunman was shot and killed,…
The 2025 Allstate Sugar Bowl has officially been rescheduled for 3:00 CST on Thursday, January 2. This decision comes following the terror attacks in downtown New Orleans on January…
The 2025 Allstate Sugar Bowl has been postponed following a terror attack in the New Orleans French Quarter on Wednesday morning. At least 15 people were killed and dozens more injured when…
By Daniella Silva The man accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was found guilty of murder Wednesday in a case that became a flashpoint in the immigration debate earlier this year ahead of the presidential election. Jose Antonio Ibarra,…
CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — More than 90,000 residents east of Atlanta were told to keep sheltering in place Monday a day after a chemical plant fire sent a massive plume of dark smoke high into the sky that could been seen for…
By KATE PAYNE, STEPHEN SMITH and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH CRAWFORDVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Helene roared ashore in a sparsely populated region of Florida as a powerful Category 4 storm, peeling the siding off buildings, trapping residents in rising floodwaters and knocking out power to…
A Hancock County grand jury has cleared a Hancock County deputy involved in a shooting in December 2022. The state Attorney General issued a statement Monday morning announcing the grand jury found that there was "no criminal conduct on behalf…
A 15-year-old teenager from Georgia was found shot in the arm on Saturday, April 13th. According to Gulfport Police spokesman Jason Ducre, the teen is wanted by police in Georgia. The shooting happened on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The…
BY KATE BRUMBACK ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must step aside from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump or remove the special prosecutor with whom she had a romantic relationship before the case can proceed, the judge…
BY BILL BARROW AND MICHAEL WARREN ATLANTA (AP) — Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his one term as U.S. president and their four decades thereafter as global humanitarians, has died at the age of 96. The Carter Center said she…
Mississippi Power is sending more than 200 members of its storm team to Georgia ahead of Hurricane Idalia's landfall. Crews will be positioned to go to work immediately following the storm passing through Georgia. “We are fortunate that our customers…
A Georgia man is in jail after being charged with felony shoplifting in D'Iberville. D'Iberville Police Chief Shannon Nobles said 25-year-old Damani Wright of Alpharetta, Georgia, is accused of stealing merchandise from the T-Mobile store on Sangani Boulevard. His bond…
A traffic stop made by Hancock County Sheriff's deputies turned into a drug bust of marijuana and fentanyl. Sheriff Ricky Adam said Criminal Interdiction Agents made a traffic stop Monday on I-10 of a…
Christmas definitely came big and came early for one lucky guest at Beau Rivage Casino Resort. The player, who declined to be identified, hit a Progressive Wheel of Fortune jackpot on a 25 cent machine for a cool $642,012.23. The…
Democrat Raphael Warnock defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler. The focus now shifts to the second race between Republican David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff.
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia’s top elections official is expected to certify election results showing Joe Biden won the presidential election in the state. But Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger stumbled on this last step Friday,…
We break down the recount numbers for our counties, the counties with the biggest changes, and the counties that added the most “new” votes
The deadline for the counties to complete the audit is 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, ahead of the Friday deadline for state certification.