The Georgia House has passed a constitutional amendment that would allow the state to create charter schools.

A gunman shot four people to death inside a health spa in Atlanta's suburbs and then killed himself.

A federal advisory panel is recommending that all Americans age 65 and older get vaccinated against whooping cough.

The Georgia House is honoring the 45 National Guard soldiers who have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A Georgia city has hired a lawyer who was involved with Atlanta's school cheating probe as it launches an investigation to find out who leaked information from a city council meeting.

The director of a south Georgia zoo says it is preparing to open a new exhibit that simulates the African grassland.

The threat of bird strikes to aircraft could doom plans for a waste transfer station in metro Atlanta.

A federal judge ordered a Georgia sheriff to resign from office after he was accused of attacking inmates.

U.S. senators Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss met with a federal commerce official for a briefing on the project to deepen the shipping channel to the Port of Savannah and to tour the port.

Secretary of State defends his plan to overhaul the state's procedure for professional licensing.