ATLANTA – Georgia energy regulators voted Thursday to require Georgia Power to take a more aggressive approach toward developing renewable energy on several fronts. However, the state Public Service Commission also rejected, at least for now, a proposed expansion of Georgia Power’s rooftop solar program.

ATLANTA – Georgia’s unemployment rate dipped below 3% last month for the first time ever, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday. The rate of joblessness fell to 2.9% in June, well below the national unemployment rate of 3.6%.

FORT GORDON, Ga. (AP) — A lightning strike at an Army post in Georgia left one soldier dead and nine others injured Wednesday as a thunderstorm moved through the area, authorities said. The extent of the injuries to the survivors wasn't immediately known.

ATLANTA – The Japanese manufacturer of a type of copper foil used in printed electronics will build its North American headquarters in Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday. Denkai …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta blew two tires Tuesday while landing at Los Angeles International Airport. Nobody on board was hurt, although two runways at the busy airport were closed for several hours. Authorities say Delta Flight 515 landed safely shortly after 1 p.m.

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say a man wanted in connection with the shooting death of his girlfriend in Georgia was shot and killed by police after a standoff in suburban Denver. The police chief in Aurora, Colorado says 27-year-old Fabien Perry emerged from home there holding a rifle around 2 a.m. Tuesday and two officers fired at him.

BUENA VISTA, Ga. (AP) — A 37-year-old Georgia man is accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend and the girlfriend’s grandmother and great uncle. Jamie Leon Harris was arrested Monday and is charged with three counts of felony murder, three counts of aggravated assault, and one count of feticide.

ATLANTA (AP) — Groups challenging Georgia's 2021 voting law are asking a federal judge to block a ban on giving water and food to voters standing in line. The state is defending the ban. It says that it prevents concerns about illegal campaigning or vote buying while preserving order around polling places.

ATLANTA – Monkeypox vaccines from the federal government began arriving in Georgia Friday, the state Department of Public Health (DPH) announced. The 3,000 Jynneos vaccines received so far is enough to vaccinate 1,500 people, agency spokeswoman Nancy Nydam said. A full vaccination requires two doses 28 days apart.  

MACON, Ga. (AP) — Georgia will issue electronic debit cards by October for women and children who benefit from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children. Commonly called the WIC program, it provides food for low-income women during and after pregnancy, as well as children 5 and younger.

ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Transportation (DOT) is working with Chicago-based commercial real estate company JLL to plan a network of electric vehicle charging stations across the state. The plan is a required step toward landing federal funds for charging stations through a $5 billion grant program established by the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure spending bill Congress passed last fall.

SYLVANIA, Ga. (AP) — A textile manufacturer says it plans to close a plant in Georgia that employs 260 workers. Milliken & Company announced that its operations in Screven County will be transferred to its plant in Cherokee County, South Carolina. Kevin Brown of Milliken said the company will make every effort to retain any Screven County employees willing to transfer to another location.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s second-largest school district has approved a policy that lets some employees who aren’t certified police officers carry guns in schools. But the proposal was changed to specifically exclude teachers from those who can be armed in the suburban Atlanta system.

ATLANTA (AP) — A former Georgia mayor will serve nearly five years in federal prison after stealing nearly $925,000 in COVID-19 relief funds that his city handed out. U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash sentenced Stonecrest ex-mayor Jason Lary to 57 months in federal prison and ordered him to pay nearly $120,000 in restitution.

SANDERSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A second man has been arrested on murder charges in a May shooting in which two people were killed and which caused a stampede at a Georgia music festival. Washington County Sheriff Joel Cochran says 24-year-old Brian Keith Rozier of East Dublin was arrested by U.S. marshals.

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A prosecutor says a woman has been charged with murder in the death of her 6-year-old son outside Atlanta more than 23 years ago. DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston said Tuesday that a grand jury returned an indictment on June 28 against Teresa Ann Bailey Black. Black faces charges including felony murder, cruelty to children, and concealing the death of another in the death of William DaShawn Hamilton.

ATLANTA – Fourteen Georgians, including eight prison inmates, were charged Wednesday with participating in a drug trafficking ring operating in southeastern Georgia. According to a federal indictment, the group began distributing methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl as far back as 2018 in at least seven counties: Bacon, Brantley, Camden, Coffee, Glynn, Pierce, and Ware.

ATLANTA – The federal government is releasing monkeypox vaccine to Georgia in a phased approach. The state will receive 5,943 doses of the Jynneos vaccine from the Strategic National Stockpile during the first two phases, Dr. Alexander Millman, chief medical officer for the Georgia Department of Public Health, told the agency’s board Tuesday.

MACON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty in February to sexually assaulting a girl while a missionary in Uganda. A federal judge in Macon, Georgia, sentenced 45-year-old Eric Tuininga last week. Tuininga must also pay $20,000 in restitution. Once out of prison, he must spend a lifetime on supervised release as a registered sex offender.

LITHONIA, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man became trapped while trying to crawl down through a vent from a strip mall roof into a pizza restaurant on Tuesday, forcing firefighters to slice open the …

HENRY COUNTY, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia police officer is being recognized for rescuing a 3-year-old boy wandering alone by a busy road. Stockbridge police officer Granville Barrett told WSB-TV he spotted the boy near Rock Quarry Road at midday Friday. He said 15 more minutes passed before a worker approached them from the ABC Early Learning Academy a quarter-mile away.

ATLANTA  – The Georgia Department of Public Safety released a preliminary report Friday indicating there were 21 traffic fatalities across the state over the 78-hour Independence Day holiday travel period.

ATLANTA – Georgia closed out fiscal 2022 last month with a bulging budget surplus fueled by a significant increase in tax revenue. The state Department of Revenue collected $2.85 billion in taxes in June, up 14.2% over June of last year, Gov. Brian Kemp’s office reported Friday.

ATLANTA – Officials at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Thursday announced a $40 million plan to upgrade Concourse D at the world’s busiest airport. The project, being funded through the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure spending bill Congress passed last fall, will widen and modernize the terminal.

ATLANTA (AP) — A rural Georgia monument that some people have dubbed “America's Stonehenge” has been demolished after a bomb destroyed one of its four granite panels. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says the monument near Elberton was damaged by an explosive device and that authorities demolished the remaining structure for safety reasons.