Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens is kicking off a food drive competition that pits the state's lawyers against each other.

The Georgia House of Representatives has approved proposed changes to a 2011 law targeting illegal immigration.

State officials have announced extended jobless benefits for the unemployed are being reduced because of automatic budget cuts.

Students planning to attend college in Georgia and apply for state financial aid will soon have to fill out a federal application instead of a state form.

Republican lawmakers are moving to loosen restrictions on where Georgians can carry or keep firearms.

A 66-year old nurse practitioner has been charged with forging prescriptions in an elaborate scheme to buy thousands of doses of the drugs.

Augusta National Golf Club is trying to block the sale of one of its iconic green jackets.

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Macon police are investigating after a man says he was kidnapped at knifepoint outside the Bibb County Courthouse by an assailant who cut and robbed him.

Authorities shut down a south Georgia wastewater treatment plant as a river flooded critical buildings and structures.

Automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect Friday are expected to touch a vast range of government services.

Throughout the month of March, law enforcement agencies will be out enforcing Florida’s drinking age laws and working to keep impaired drivers off the roads.

The man accused of threatening to eat a judge's children has been denied bond and is ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation.

Nearly $9 million has been collected in taxes from three regions that voted to approve a 10-year, one percent transportation sales tax last year.

A utility says a first-of-its-kind nuclear plant under construction in eastern Georgia will go over budget.

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State lawmakers in the House have approved a sweeping overhaul of Georgia's juvenile justice system, with the bill now moving to the Senate for consideration.

Four people charged in connection with a 2009 salmonella outbreak that killed nine and sickened hundreds have pleaded not guilty to all charges in federal court in south Georgia.

A former state trooper has been indicted for vehicular homicide and other charges in a crash that killed the wife of an Atlanta Braves trainer.

Mandatory spending cuts will hit many federal programs beginning Friday unless President Barack Obama and Congress avoid the so-called sequester.

The lawsuit from Shelby County, Ala., near Birmingham, says the "dire local conditions" that once justified strict federal oversight of elections no longer exist.

Georgia ranked 4th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia for syphilis, 7th or gonorrhea and 8th for Chlamydia.

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The report was released Tuesday by the Governors Highway Safety Association.