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.

Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Carol Hunstein stressed the need to reform the state's juvenile justice system in her fourth and final Sate of the Judiciary address.

Law enforcement officers relied heavily on military tactics and equipment to end the six-day ordeal.

The 14-year-old allegedly made a comment about "shooting up the school."

Georgia counties affected by this last summer's drought declared disaster areas. Federal funds are now available.

School officials and a sheriff's department in middle Georgia are trying to determine how a 10-year-old special needs student was left alone on a school bus for hours.

An Augusta-based golf car manufacturer has issued a recall for 950 of its vehicles.

Packages will still be delivered on Saturdays.

Georgia voters in district 11 have made a decision on who will fill the vacant senate seat.

The man accused of fatally shooting a south Georgia liquor store clerk during a botched robbery has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter.

Columbus officials are protesting a plan that could trim the number of soldiers in a Fort Benning unit.

Columbus and Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta are possibilities.

An Athens day care center says a woman accused of unlawfully taking her child from the center got inside by waiting until another parent exited a door requiring a security code.

The mayor of Adairsville says more than 1,000 volunteers helped with tornado cleanup in the north Georgia city this weekend.

A shopper at a Wal-Mart in Columbus left behind something illegal -- a small bag of methamphetamine.

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Georgia's famed groundhog, Gen. Beauregard Lee, has spotted his shadow -- indicating we're in for a longer winter.

Police have arrested a Clark Atlanta University student in a shooting over a pickup basketball game that wounded another student at Morehouse College.

Thousands of people with disabilities, their caregivers, wounded veterans and others are expected to converge on the Georgia World Congress Center for the annual Atlanta Abilities Expo.

A cookie controversy from Savannah's recent past made for sweet trivia for contestants on the game show "Jeopardy!"