Vernon Jones, a former Democratic state representative who switched parties to support President Donald Trump, has announced his candidacy for Georgia's secretary of state.

For all his production during his college days at Georgia, Buffalo Bills running back James Cook was reminded of never scoring a touchdown in three SEC championship game appearances at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff says he raised more than $12 million from July through September.

A man from Atlanta, Georgia said two of the children involved in a shooting in the Angleton area over the weekend are his grandchildren.

A judge has announced that the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others will be dismissed in 14 days if a new prosecutor isn't appointed.

Police said Tyrese Gibson was booked into a Georgia jail early Friday, a week after he failed to turn himself in following an arrest warrant for cruelty to animals.

A Georgia special state Senate committee plans to question Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis next month.

Georgia farmers are still waiting for aid after Hurricane Helene, even as other states finalize agreements.

Oregon has moved up to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll, while Mississippi has its highest ranking since 2015.

Alabama has turned its season around with a 24-21 victory over No. 5 Georgia, ending the Bulldogs' 33-game home winning streak.

President Donald Trump's administration has extended Georgia's Pathways to Coverage program for 15 months.

Photographer Tom Sanders has dedicated his career to capturing the faces and stories of America’s veterans through American Heroes: Portraits of Service, a project in partnership with Belmont Village Senior Living. Since 2008, he has photographed nearly 1,000 veterans across the country preserving their legacies for future generations. Tom stopped by two of the facilities in June and today on Houston Life we really got the sense of why a picture is worth a thousand words. Their stories of courage, service, and sacrifice remind us why honoring our heroes matters now more than ever.

The Southeastern Conference announced league matchups for the next four years and designated three annual opponents for each of its 16 teams.

A government watchdog has raised concerns about high administrative costs in Georgia's Medicaid program.

Hyundai Motor Group confirms it's moving forward with expanding its Georgia plant.

Rivian Automotive is starting to build a long-delayed electric vehicle plant in Georgia, despite tough challenges in the U.S. market.

Week 4 rankings from the AP Top 25 college football poll are out.

AP Top 25 ballots became even tougher to perfect as the dust settled on Week 3 of college football.

After Koreans detained in a historic raid on a Georgia Hyundai plant were sent home, lawyers and social workers say the nearly 200 non-Korean workers ensnared in the crackdown remain in legal limbo.

A judge has rejected an attempt by Georgia and a local development agency to make residents pay legal fees after they unsuccessfully sued to block the Rivian electric vehicle plant.

A plane carrying more than 300 South Korean workers released after days of detention in Georgia has landed in South Korea.

A plane carrying more than 300 workers from South Korea who were detained during an immigration raid on a battery factory in Georgia last week has left Atlanta bound for South Korea.

Luka Dončić’s 39 points were not enough for Slovenia as it lost 99-91 to Germany in a thrilling EuroBasket quarterfinal.

South Korea says a charter plane that is planned to carry South Korean workers who were detained in an immigration raid in Georgia will depart Thursday at noon to return home.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has welcomed foreign investment and talked tough against illegal immigration.

Georgia has advanced to the quarterfinals at the EuroBasket tournament for the first time with a dominant 80-70 win against France.

South Korea says it has reached a deal with the U.S. for the release of South Korean workers detained in an immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia.

Georgia is becoming the eighth state to send National Guard troops to Washington, D.

U.S. immigration officials say some 475 people were detained during an immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles.

Gabriel Sterling, known for defending Georgia's 2020 election results, is running for the state's secretary of state.

Immigration agents are conducting a raid at the sprawling industrial site where Hyundai makes electric vehicles in southeast Georgia.

Luka Doncic had a triple-double to power Slovenia to an 86-69 victory over Belgium on Sunday and its first win at EuroBasket.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has endorsed Derek Dooley for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat in 2026.

American-born guard Jordan Loyd hit seven 3-pointers and finished with 32 points to help Poland outlast Slovenia and Los Angles Lakers star Luka Doncic 105-95 in both teams’ EuroBasket opener.

A judge has ruled that Georgia's Fulton County must pay $10,000 daily until it appoints two Republican nominees to its election board.

Vice President JD Vance has been promoting President Donald Trump's new tax cuts and spending bill in swing-state Georgia.

Auburn is claiming four additional football national titles and will call itself a nine-time champion moving forward.

GE Appliances plans to shift production of refrigerators, gas ranges and water heaters out of China and Mexico as part of a more than $3 billion investment to expand its U.S. operations.

An Army sergeant accused of shooting five fellow soldiers at a Georgia base has been charged by the military with attempted murder.

Texas, Penn State, Ohio State and Clemson would be the top four seeds in the College Football Playoff based on The Associated Press preseason Top 25 poll.

A shooting at Fort Stewart on Wednesday has injured five people and raised concerns about safety on military bases.

The shooting of five U.S. Army soldiers at a base in Georgia is the latest in a list of violent occurrences at American military installations over the years.

Former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley has announced his 2026 Republican bid for the U.S. Senate in Georgia.

A yearslong investigation by federal and state authorities in Georgia has led to the indictment and arrest of 42-year-old Brian Fontenot, a Cypress man who allegedly helped run a fraudulent cryptocurrency business.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she won't run for governor in Georgia.

The National Weather Service has issued heat advisories for the southeastern United States.

A former Georgia sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to federal prison in the beating three years ago of a Black jail detainee who was punched repeatedly by guards who rushed into his cell.

Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King has dropped out of the 2026 Republican race for the U.S. Senate.

Georgia's State Ethics Commission is declining to investigate Lt. Gov. Burt Jones over a $10 million loan to a campaign committee.

Texas is the preseason favorite to win the Southeastern Conference championship, with quarterback Arch Manning leading the team.

A Maryland man has been arrested on charges that he made threatening calls to the Georgia offices of Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Investigators said a man was dropping off his daughter at the airport when Tristan T. Griffin, 28, went up to him and punched him in the face while he was getting back into his car. He also assaulted another person for trying to intervene.

More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern states have reported witnessing a fireball streak across the sky, and NASA has determined that it was a meteor.

A federal judge is blocking Georgia's law requiring age verification for social media accounts.

An object bright enough to be seen streaking across the midday sky has fallen across parts of the Southeast U.S. The National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia, says the object was likely either a meteor or space junk.

A conservation group says it will pay $60 million to buy land outside the Okefenokee Swamp from a mining company that spent years battling environmentalists over its plans to extract minerals there.

A hotly debated mining project near the federally protected Okefenokee Swamp has stalled over a $2 million permit requirement needed before Georgia regulators make a final decision.

Four people have been sickened in two states by salmonella poisoning linked to pistachio cream, a nut butter spread.

More than 460 laid-off employees at the nation’s top public health agency are being reinstated.

Federal health officials say a salmonella outbreak linked to a large egg recall has made dozens of people sick in seven states in the West and Midwest.

More than half of U.S. states now have laws banning or regulating cellphones in schools, with more likely to follow.

The company that operated a Georgia chlorine plant with a history of explosions and chemical fires that created toxic clouds has decided not to rebuild its Conyers manufacturing plant.

The case of a pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead and has been on life support for three months has given rise to complicated questions about abortion law and whether a fetus is a person.

Georgia has become the second state to provide a legal protections to the manufacturer of a popular weed killer.

It has been more than a year and a half since authorities in Georgia indicted 61 activists on racketeering charges in connection with protests against an Atlanta-area police training facility that critics derisively call “Cop City.”.

An earthquake of 4.1 magnitude has been reported in Tennessee and was felt in Atlanta, Georgia, and western North Carolina.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene won't challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia in next year’s midterms.

Police have charged Florida cornerback Dijon Johnson with two felonies, including possession of a firearm, and misdemeanors after his arrest over the weekend while driving a car in Tampa.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is peaking.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a law aimed at preventing future school shootings like the one that killed two students and two teachers in September at the Apalachee High School.

The pastor of a Georgia megachurch who led a nationwide 40-day “fast” against Target stores is now calling for a “full Target boycott.”.

Rapper Boston Richey, real name Jalen Taheen Foster, is accused of assaulting his pregnant ex-girlfriend, Tatiana “Chanell” Charles, outside a Houston nightclub on March 30, 2025.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has appeared at a town hall in suburban Atlanta to deliver full-throated support of President Donald Trump.

Newly released federal statistics show an estimated 1 in 31 U.S. children have autism, marking another jump in a long string of increases.

A female Army Ranger for the first time competed in the annual Best Ranger Competition, and her two-soldier team finished the grueling three-day event over the weekend and came in 14th overall.

Patrick Reed and Ludvig Aberg made late Saturday moves at the Masters, while Justin Rose went in the opposite direction.

U.S. regulators have concluded a monthslong review of their environmental permit for Hyundai's $7.6 billion electric vehicle plant in Georgia, finding that no changes are needed.

A supercharged U.S. Senate GOP primary in Texas between Sen. John Cornyn and state Attorney General Ken Paxton is off to a fast start of personal attacks and expectations of a high-spending race.

Augusta National looks as pristine as ever on the eve of the Masters.

Georgia lawmakers passed a bill that would change how wrongfully convicted people are compensated.

Boxed into a vote on outlawing spending on gender affirming care for transgender prisoners, Georgia Democrats chose a third option Wednesday.

A federal judge has declined to block the use of Georgia’s electronic voting system.

Georgia lawmakers said repeatedly that a student-tracking database had been removed from a school safety bill.

At least four states are considering giving college athletes tax breaks on endorsement income.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has instructed the Justice Department to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a sweeping 2021 election law in Georgia.

Many women are in prison for killing their abusive partners.

A Georgia bill to codify the right to in vitro fertilization got overwhelming in the state Senate and will likely go to Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk for his signature soon.

The second part of Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s top priority to limit lawsuits and large verdicts won final approval from the House on Thursday.

Hyundai says it will expand production capacity by two-thirds at its sprawling new electric vehicle plant in Georgia.

Authorities say two brothers of the Venezuelan man who killed Georgia nursing student Laken Riley will be deported along with their former roommate after they pleaded guilty to possessing fake green cards.

A judge has ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to pay more than $54,000 in attorneys’ fees and to turn over documents after finding that her office violated Georgia’s Open Records Act.

A court in Georgia has handed another prison sentence to imprisoned former President Mikheil Saakashvili.

Houston earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the third straight year and will open against first-time qualifier SIU-Edwardsville in Wichita, Kansas, on Thursday.

Several states are considering moves to change how they compensate people incarcerated after wrongful convictions.

A team of independent monitors says Georgia’s Fulton County conducted an “organized and orderly” election last year.

Georgia may have ended its 10-year NCAA Tournament drought by beating Vanderbilt 79-68.

It turns out 2025 isn’t the year for legalized sports betting in Georgia.

Georgia’s Senate has passed a bill that would allow President Donald Trump and more than a dozen people to seek compensation for legal bills stemming from an attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.

Some Georgia lawmakers are trying to get rid of automated cameras that enforce school zone speed limits, saying the cameras are more about making money than the safety of children.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has temporarily suspended billions in contract cuts after an uproar that critical veterans health services were harmed, lawmakers and veterans service organizations said Wednesday.