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When some of Hall County's youngest students settle in for a lesson, they greet the teacher not with "good morning" but with "ni hao." That's because Hall is one of a few Georgia school systems that starts teaching Mandarin to students as young as 4 years old.

In a rough economy, Georgia's leaders are looking to collect every nickel owed to the state.

Three-quarters of Georgia’s likely GOP primary voters are evangelical Christians and half are “very conservative” -- and they heavily favor Newt Gingrich, according to a Mason-Dixon Poll conducted for the Georgia Newspaper Partnership, of which the Ledger-Enquirer is a member.

Whitney Houston once held the world in her hand. She had a marvelous voice, that crossed color barriers, as a black female singer.

Today her God Given talent torch was extinguished today, Feb. 11. 2012, when she was found dead in a suite, where she had been staying today, and pronounced dead at 3:55 pm PST....

Cold weather has been making a comeback in the South this weekend, after what's been a very mild winter so far.

Supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul, Daniel Barry , William Madden, Linda EvansA and Dee Ellis hold up signs on Turner McCall Boulevard.

One of three suspects in a videotaped beating of a gay man has been arrested, Atlanta police said Saturday.

A 7-year-old Georgia girl fought off a man who'd grabbed her in the aisle of a Walmart, with police eventually tracking down the suspect they accuse of attempted kidnapping.

Argentina said Friday it has information that Britain sent a nuclear-armed submarine to the South Atlantic near the disputed Falkland Islands in the latest verbal salvo in a dispute over the territory.

Thomas Woods had only been out of jail a few months when he allegedly snapped up a young girl in a Georgia Walmart.

Gingrich, who represented Georgia in Congress for 20 years, is expected to speak at the GOP Mass Precinct Meeting at South Forsyth High School.

The governors of Georgia and South Carolina are keeping quiet on a private meeting on stalled efforts to build a $5 billion cargo port on the Savannah River shared by both states.

A Georgia scientist has been awarded a government grant to help identify coastal areas most vulnerable to hurricanes and other natural hazards.

Authorities say Janine Wright was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison, to be followed by six years of probation.

Georgia Legislative Black Caucus Chairman Sen. Emanuel Jones of Decatur said Thursday the group has met with Gov.

A man accused of trying to abduct a 7-year-old from the toy aisle at a Wal-Mart could make his first appearance Friday.

According to the Georgia Department of Corrections website, escapee's Fred Dalton Brooks and Buell David Emberson were recaptured Tuesday night without incident three miles from Walker State Prison.They were found by GDC personnel with assistance from local authorities.

Tricia Pridemore, center, executive director of the Governor's Office of Workforce Development, speaks to Henry Kelly, left, and Ann Kaiser, both with Georgia Power, Tuesday night at the Northwest Georgia College and Career Academy.

Update: The NRC has approved two new nuclear reactors in Georgia. Previously posted WASHINGTON - The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation is expected to win approval Thursday as federal regulators consider whether to grant a license for two new reactors in Georgia.

The agency overseeing plans to deepen the river channel to the Port of Savannah announced Wednesday it will funnel an additional $2.5 million in federal funding toward pre-construction planning, which Georgia port officials said should help keep the projected on target for completion by 2016.