The employer of a 60-year-old Idaho executive says it has suspended the man after authorities charged him with slapping a 2-year-old boy aboard a flight to Atlanta.

Police have closed a Macon massage parlor after the owner and two women were indicted on prostitution and money laundering charges.

A spokesman for Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal says Georgians who use Amazon.com will have to pay taxes on their purchases, though it's not clear when.

Most of the flooding occurred in lower areas of three roads and in the small community of Acree, east of Albany.

A Georgia man has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes to allow a thief to steal $1 million worth of equipment from an Albany Marine base.

Bainbridge State College will be the third name the institution has had since its inception in 1973 as a two year college when it was referred to as Bainbridge Junior College.

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Gov. Nathan Deal has signed into a law his plan to extend a key piece of Medicaid insurance funding without explicitly extending a tax on hospitals.

Forecasters say the Ocmulgee River in the Macon area is projected to rise even higher than first thought.

Scholars say shark attacks in the U.S. reached their highest level in a decade last year.

The results of various research projects across Georgia will be shared.

In the video above, News 4 Meteorologist Chris Havely discusses the flooding in the Wiregrass.

Tax collection growth in Georgia grew by more than 10 percent last month, potentially improving the state's budget situation.

The Georgia Peanut Commission will hold its annual Research Report Day this week.

Clayton County police have arrested a Riverdale man in connection with a triple shooting at a Waffle House restaurant in Lovejoy that injured three people.

Fannie Thornton celebrates her 109th birthday.

Authorities believe a body found at the bottom of a well in Franklin County is that of a 33-year-old Franklin County woman who had been missing for about two weeks.

Education officials could deliberate privately about troubled Georgia school boards under a plan being considered in the General Assembly.

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Most political observers say Gov. Nathan Deal is well-positioned as he begins his third year in office on the way the 2014 election.

A DeKalb County jury has convicted a man of battery in the beating of a Georgia state trooper who was injured so badly it ended her career.

U.S. Rep. Paul Broun says he wants to see automatic budget cuts take effect next month despite warnings from the Pentagon that the cutbacks would devastate the military.

Democratic lawmakers in Georgia are making a move to expand the state's popular HOPE scholarship. Cuts were made to the program two years ago, but Republicans say restoring those cuts can't happen just yet.

Records show that Georgia's state schools superintendent has been collecting a state car allowance worth more than $7,000 a year -- even though the state stopped offering the allowance to officials several years before he took office.