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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 [...]

For the first time in more than 100 years, much of the Southeast has reached the most severe category of drought, climatologists said Monday, creating an emergency so serious that […]

Federal officials said Monday that they planned to deport an elderly German man living in Georgia who they said was a guard and dog trainer in Nazi death camps. Officials […]

It was an art project, meant to entertain career-day visitors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.I.T. sophomore assured security officials after she had been arrested at Boston's airport […]

In 1997, St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston was a congregation bursting at the seams. The community of 6,600 members was housed in a building that could seat just 675. […]

ATLANTA, Sept. 14 -- A prosecutor in Alabama has been criticized by the state attorney general for arguing that a man who was on death row for a double murder […]

Last year, Christopher W. Adams, the first lawyer ever appointed to supervise the legal defense of poor people facing the death penalty in Georgia, was riding high. Just a year […]

Calling the crime 'unspeakable because only monsters could inflict this,' a federal judge on Friday sentenced a former member of the Ku Klux Klan to three life terms in prison […]

Arthur Bremer, the gunman who tried to kill Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama as he campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972, will be released from prison this […]

Callers to a certain Houston residence have lately been greeted by a cheerfully assertive message: 'You have just reached the home of LaRhonda Petitt Brown.' Then, as gospel music swells […]

For the second time in two weeks, Oliver, a 9-year-old capuchin monkey at a Mississippi zoo, escaped his cage, and this time, his keepers said he proved to be an […]

Two boys were the only survivors of an attack at a home in a normally peaceful, middle-class suburb northwest of Atlanta that killed a mother and her two teenage daughters, […]

Two boys were the sole survivors of an attack at a house in a peaceful middle-class suburb northwest of Atlanta that killed a mother and her two teenage daughters, investigators […]

s fun when you're having flies, Kermit the Frog once said. And how time has flown: Kermit, or more precisely one of the many puppets that have played Kermit, will […]

Paul Broun, a Republican who has never held public office, was certified as the winner of a special election to fill the seat in the House of Representatives vacated by […]

Only a few observers usually show up for arguments before the Georgia Supreme Court. But the gallery was packed on Friday as the seven justices heard two expedited appeals on […]

On the eve of Tuesday's runoff to determine which Republican candidate would fill the Congressional seat left vacant by the death of Representative Charlie Norwood in February, even Paul Broun […]

Hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday granted a stay of execution to a man convicted of […]

It was a Friday night in a rough part of town when Officer Mark A. MacPhail of the Savannah Police Department showed up to work his second job, moonlighting as […]

As Ponce de Leon Avenue snakes eastward out of Atlanta into the suburbs, the groomed lawns, the painted brick colonials and the neighborhood parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted give […]

At 6 a.m. his time, as the sun spread over the pancake-flat desert around him, William G. Halicks, a Navy captain stationed in Hillah, Iraq, measured the temperature at 95 […]

A judge ruled that a man serving a 10-year prison sentence for having consensual sex with a 15-year-old girl at a party when he was 17 is not eligible for […]

Chris Benoit, a professional wrestler known as the Canadian Crippler, killed his wife and 7-year-old son in their house in Fayetteville, Ga., over the weekend before taking his own life […]

Eleven businessmen have offered to post a $1 million cash bond to secure release of a man serving 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with 15-year-old girl […]

For the second time in five months, the Georgia Aquarium is mourning one of its stars, a young whale shark named Norton who was euthanized by veterinarians early Wednesday morning […]

A judge on Monday ordered the release of a man who is serving a widely criticized 10-year prison sentence without parole for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl […]

Five people died and six were injured after a fast-moving fire engulfed a motel in Riverdale, Ga., on Thursday morning. Firefighters found five badly burned bodies in and around a […]

JUST days after learning that the Alliance Theater had won the 2007 Tony Award for outstanding regional theater, Susan V. Booth, its artistic director, was already trying to win another. […]

Under pressure from animal rights advocates, two soft drink giants, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, have agreed to stop directly financing research that uses animals to test or develop their products, except […]

Chief Richard J. Pennington announced 140 personnel changes in the Atlanta Police Department on Tuesday, including an overhaul of the narcotics unit, which has been under scrutiny since November, when […]

Tuesday was a red-flag day in southeast Georgia, meaning that a continuing drought had turned low, scrubby underbrush into the ideal fuel for fires. The collective sense of humor had […]

Mayor Shirley Franklin defended the city's police chief Monday against charges by federal prosecutors that a 'culture of misconduct' in the Police Department contributed to the shooting death of an […]

After the fatal police shooting of an elderly woman in a botched drug raid, the United States attorney here said Thursday that prosecutors were investigating a 'culture of misconduct' in […]

Hundreds of firefighters from across the Southeast placed themselves between houses and wildfires in southern Georgia on Friday, trying to fend off blazes that have blackened 42,000 acres, destroyed 20 […]

Less than a year after a dramatic eleventh-hour deal by a coalition of civic leaders saved a large trove of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers and personal […]

The Food and Drug Administration said yesterday that it had not found rat poison in pet food that has been killing animals, but that it had found melamine, a chemical […]

A young whale shark that sank to the bottom of its tank at the Georgia Aquarium this year and died had been forcibly fed for months, a practice that may […]

A high-profile multiple-murder case has drained the budget of Georgia's public defender system and brought all but a handful of its 72 capital cases to a standstill. The case involves […]

A fifth college baseball player on Friday died of injuries suffered when his team's chartered tour bus plunged 30 feet off a highway overpass last week, bringing the death toll […]

A bus that had been traveling all night, taking an Ohio college baseball team to Florida for a series of games, plunged nearly 30 feet off an overpass early Friday […]

A storm system that stretched nearly 1,000 miles from the Midwest to the Southeast on Thursday killed at least 11 people in three states, including five who died when what […]

An egg farm operated by Trappist monks at a monastery in South Carolina is an 'ugly stain' on an otherwise blessed community, an animal rights group said Tuesday as it […]

The second piece of legislation introduced with the intent of helping Genarlow Wilson, a former honor student and star athlete who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for having oral […]

A plan by the district attorney to seek murder charges against three narcotics officers involved in the shooting death of an elderly woman during a bungled drug raid may jeopardize […]

More than a month after the death of the legendary soul singer James Brown, his body still has not been laid to rest, a circumstance that has dismayed his friends […]