Georgia News

Early voting is now open for the presidential primary , but election officials said the state has not yet sent the documents necessary to offer early voting in the runoff for Georgia House District 107 .

Forecasters say a mix of freezing rain and snow is possible over parts of north Georgia as moisture combines with cold air in the region.

Investigators worked Sunday to piece together what killed Whitney Houston, whose body arrived at a Los Angeles morgue early Sunday, hours after the 48-year-old had been found dead Saturday afternoon in a hotel room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where she was preparing for a pre-Grammy gala.

And it's a lead-pipe cinch that average citizens - particularly now, as they struggle in a floundering economy with mortgage payments, car payments, grocery bills, etc.

Claim: Georgia held a hearing to determine Barack Obama's eligibility to appear on that state's ballot as a presidential candidate.

District 18 state Rep. Kevin Cooke is a co-sponsor of legislation which would allow law-abiding citizens in Georgia to carry handguns without a permit.

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.