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For decades, the drug-resistant germ called MRSA was almost exclusively a concern of humans, usually in hospitals and other health care settings. But in recent years, the germ has become [...]

The influenza vaccine, which has been strongly recommended for people over 65 for more than four decades, is losing its reputation as an effective way to ward off the virus [...]

''Desperate Pets!'' read the headline of an online classified ad posted from Lee County, Fla., which is ranked first in the nation in home foreclosures. ''Please Help!'' begged a post [...]

High blood pressure, the most commonly diagnosed condition in the United States, is becoming increasingly resistant to drugs that lower it, according to a panel of experts assembled by the [...]

The chief judge of the Fulton County Superior Court on Monday sharply criticized a state plan to lay off a large group of public defenders, saying it could cause a [...]

At least one Arkansas family already knows that 2008 has been a devastating year for tornadoes. John E. Hill, 31, lost his job on Feb. 2 when a huge twister [...]

To gas prices, foreclosure rates and the cost of rice, add this rising economic indicator: the number of tips to the police from people hoping to collect reward money. Calls [...]

Apparently eight million gallons of water and 80,000 animals were not enough for the Georgia Aquarium, which already claims to be the world's largest. It did not have dolphins. On [...]

Gena L. Abraham, Georgia's state transportation commissioner, started her day on Tuesday by making a routine announcement via news release: $75 million would be spent to resurface roads and build [...]

A teenager who the authorities say planned to blow up his high school and made a tape explaining his motives appeared in a South Carolina court on Monday so a [...]

A company hired by the State of Georgia to administer health benefits for low-income patients is sending letters to notify tens of thousands of residents that their private records were [...]

This week the third floor of the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University became a place where lovers were ''secretaries to the wordless moon'' and a ''blue-scooped sky'' was [...]

A narrowly divided Georgia Supreme Court declined Monday to order a new trial for a man sentenced to death in the 1989 murder of an off-duty Savannah police officer, despite [...]

A powerful tornado struck directly at the commercial center of downtown Atlanta on Friday night, blowing windows out of dozens of high-rise buildings, tossing trees and cars, and severely damaging [...]

The $1.6 million Templeton Prize, the richest award made to an individual by a philanthropic organization, was given Wednesday to Michael Heller, 72, a Roman Catholic priest, cosmologist and philosopher [...]

After residents of the Riverbend Farms subdivision noticed that an oily, fetid substance had begun fouling the Black Warrior River, which runs through their backyards, Mark Storey, a retired petroleum [...]

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has extended the prison term of former Mayor Bill Campbell of Atlanta, a spokeswoman confirmed Friday, a week after news reports questioned his participation in [...]

Residents in five Southern states rose Wednesday to widespread clusters of destruction caused by an unusually ferocious winter tornado system. At least 55 people were killed, and scores more were […]

Georgia lost a major court fight in the Southern battle over water rights on Tuesday when a federal appellate-court panel said the state could not withdraw as much water as […]

A man who was convicted of robbing banks so he could buy scratch-off lottery tickets does not have to worry about keeping the $1 million he won in the Massachusetts […]

In the days after a young woman was killed after being abducted on a popular North Georgia hiking trail, instructors offering a crash course in personal safety found classes filling […]

Search and rescue crews scanned coastal waters off Alabama on Wednesday for the bodies of four young children believed to have been tossed off a bridge by their father after […]

Tom B. Murphy, a colorful and commanding legislator who ruled the House of Representatives in Georgia when Democrats were at the height of their power in the state, died Monday […]

For 274 years, there has been one Christ Church here, and it is a congregation with a proud history. Started with a land grant from King George of England and […]

The husband of a city police sergeant was arrested on a child pornography charge on Thursday, and federal investigators said police officers had apparently withheld and destroyed evidence in the […]

The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously struck down a state law Wednesday that limited where registered sex offenders could live, ruling that the statute was so restrictive it unconstitutionally deprived the […]

Three boys, one 8-year-old and two 9-year-olds, were charged with kidnapping, rape, false imprisonment and sexual assault after an 11-year-old girl accused them of attacking her in the woods behind [...]

Three boys, one 8-year-old and two 9-year-olds, were charged with kidnapping, rape, false imprisonment and sexual assault after an 11-year-old girl accused them of attacking her in the woods behind […]

With only a few months of readily available drinking water remaining for Atlanta, federal biologists on Friday allowed Georgia to keep more water in a reservoir that supplies the city […]

A day after Gov. Sonny Perdue asked God to forgive Georgia for being wasteful with its water, county officials in the wealthy suburbs northeast of Atlanta confirmed Wednesday just how […]

When Hilton M. Fuller Jr., a semiretired judge of the silver-haired, Southern-gentleman variety, agreed to preside over the trial in a notorious courthouse shooting here, he took a job no […]

After a meeting with Bush administration officials, the Army Corps of Engineers announced a plan to hold more water in Georgia lakes, rather than sending it downstream to Florida and […]

After more than two years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a fellow teenager, Genarlow Wilson shook the hand of a warden Friday at the Al Burruss Correctional […]

A federal appeals court panel unanimously ordered a stay of execution on Wednesday for a terminally ill prisoner who was scheduled to die by lethal injection in Alabama on Thursday. […]

To understand how Howard Finster, a Baptist preacher and bicycle repairman, became one of the most notable folk artists in the world, it is worth a visit to where it [...]

For more than five months, the lake that provides drinking water to almost five million people here has been draining away in a withering drought. Sandy beaches have expanded into […]

For the second time in four days, the Georgia Supreme Court on Monday ordered a stay of execution for a condemned prisoner, citing the United States Supreme Court's decision to […]

Byline: BRENDA GOODMAN; New York Times News Service ATLANTA -- For the first time in more than 100 years, much of the Southeastern United States has reached the most severe [...]