Georgia

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's unemployment rate fell to an all-time low of 2.8% in November, the first time it's dipped below 3% since current records began in 1976.

ATLANTA (AP) — Rivian Automotive was attracted to Georgia's education system, resources and talent when choosing a site for its $5 billion battery and assembly plant, a company official said Thursday as the project was officially announced.

ATLANTA (AP) — Five people — including two children — have been killed in a house fire outside Atlanta, authorities said early Tuesday. The blaze broke out early Tuesday morning in the …

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Kasinal Cashe White was at her brother's bedside when the Army infantryman died in 2005 from severe burns he suffered while rescuing fellow soldiers from the flaming wreckage of their vehicle in Iraq.

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has named a director for her new Office of Violence Reduction.

ATLANTA (AP) — Two Georgia senators and one U.S. House member are among those who want to name the Atlanta VA Medical Center for Max Cleland, the former Georgia senator and veterans administrator who died in November at 79.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's COVID-19 caseload is trending upward as state health officials detected a sign that the omicron variant of the virus is spreading locally.

ATLANTA (AP) — Monitors say even the most recent pushback of completion dates for two new nuclear reactors in Georgia isn't enough to account for all the delays and increased costs they see coming.

WAYNESBORO, Ga. (AP) — Amazon announced recently that it plans to build a solar farm in east Georgia, its first in the state.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate who survived an execution attempt and died years later of natural causes was laid to rest in a grave dug by family and friends, his lawyer said.

ATLANTA (AP) — Four people are dead, including a police officer, after officers responded to a domestic disturbance call Tuesday in Clayton County, just south of Atlanta, state investigators said.

ATLANTA (AP) — City Council member Andre Dickens won a runoff election Tuesday to become Atlanta’s next mayor, riding a surge of support that powered him past the council’s current president, Felicia Moore, after finishing second to her in November.

ATLANTA (AP) — A man accused of accidentally firing a gun in his bag at the Atlanta airport, causing temporary chaos and prompting a temporary ground stop on flights, has turned himself in, police said Tuesday.

BRASELTON, Ga. (AP) — A new $10 million hospice house planned for the Northeast Georgia Health System was inspired by the Community Hospice House in Merrimack, New Hampshire, where Diane Stephens’ father received his end-of-life care.

BYRON, Ga. (AP) — When Tim Williams purchased his home in Kewanee Farms in Byron in the late summer of 2020, starting a pecan processing facility and opening a storefront wasn’t something he’d ever imagined doing.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jurors on Wednesday convicted the three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was chased and fatally shot while running through their neighborhood in an attack that became part of the larger national reckoning on racial injustice.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The case of three white men charged with murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery went to a jury Tuesday after a 13-day trial in which prosecutors argued the defendants provoked a confrontation with the 25-year-old Black man and defense attorneys said their clients acted in self-defense.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to block a major U.S. sugar manufacturer from acquiring its rival, arguing that allowing the deal would harm competition and consumers.

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — On a brisk Friday morning, a small line has gathered outside the Sparrow’s Nest on Prince Avenue. Inside, people are already gearing up to clean the streets as part of a …

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's unemployment rate fell for the 18th month in a row in October, dipping to a new all-time low of 3.1%.

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — As a jury was deliberating over his fate, a Georgia district attorney on Monday pleaded guilty to several charges stemming from improper acts while in office and agreed to resign.

RINGGOLD, Ga. – A 90-year-old Ringgold man has raised more than $400,000 over the past 36 years for Georgia Baptist Children’s Homes by collecting and selling aluminum cans and recyclables.

A lawsuit in which workers accuse a Hindu organization of human trafficking by luring them from India to build a temple in New Jersey for as little as $1.20 a day has widened to four other states.

CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. – Former Georgian and Shorter University grad Joseph "Joe" Hopkins has been elected 12th president in the 115 years of Campbellsville University effective Feb. 1.

ATLANTA (AP) — COVID-19 cases in Georgia have plateaued but remain higher than before the recent surge and could climb again as winter approaches, a top health official said.

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