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The Obama administration unveiled its plan Saturday to radically change his predecessor's No Child Left Behind law in hopes of replacing an accountability system that in the last decade has tagged more than a third of schools as failing and created a hodgepodge of sometimes weak academic standards among states.

The rains have stopped and flood watches that covered North Georgia on Wednesday are but a memory, but Friday could bring some severe weather to the region.

An attorney for Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has hired a private investigator to look into a sexual assault allegation made by a 20-year-old Georgia college student.

The case of a teenage boy who broke up with his girlfriend by sending her lurid images of his various private parts via cell phone is what prompted Rep.

DMARCUS ANTWAIN WARD, 25, of Minden, Louisiana, has been arrested and arraigned today by a United States Magistrate Judge.

State schools Superintendent Kathy Cox says lottery ticket prices should be raised to help pay for K-12 education in Georgia.

Legislation pending in the House to lure big-budget movie production companies to film in Georgia may not be needed after all, its sponsor, Rep.

A man who authorities believe lives in Florida - despite giving a North Carolina address - has been arrested for trying to pass a counterfeit $100 bill and being in possession of counterfeit $100 bills totaling $10,100. Angel Wilfred Leguisamon-Pena, 29, who police say may be from Orlando, was charged with one count of first degree forgery on ...

Georgia's hospitals and health-care providers were hammered today as part of a new round of cuts proposed by Gov.

Gov. Sonny Perdue is proposing deep new cuts to the state's healthcare providers, slashing the amount they receive for treating Medicaid patients and removing a sales tax exemption for non-profit hospitals.

A Georgia man who posted a video of himself on the Internet holding a sign that said "Elton John must die" has been arrested for making terroristic threats.

A DeKalb County Judge temporarily stopped Hustler magazine from obtaining gruesome crime scene photos of murdered hiker Meredith Emerson.

Georgia's public defender system is still trying to recover its financial footing five years after a courthouse gunman racked up a $3 million taxpayer-funded defense tab on the way to his conviction.

Identical water conservation bills cleared both chambers of the state Legislature on Wednesday, an overture designed to help the state in negotiating a deal with Florida and Alabama over water rights.

A bill that would criminalize race-based abortions narrowly cleared committee at the Georgia Capitol Wednesday evening, drawing the Georgia General Assembly closer to a full-blown abortion debate.

A Georgia judge has dismissed most of the remaining legal claims in a dispute between the children of the Rev.

Sen. Mitch Seabaugh is proposing cutting 19 superior court judges a move he says could save the state up to $14 million.

A 27-year-old Georgia woman was sentenced to a year in prison on charges of scheming to defraud the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Jim Gallloway brings us the latest : Saxby Chamblissa TMs office just confirmed that the U.S. senator and Gov.

Last Monday's list of possible cuts at the state's 35 public colleges and universities contained 4,000 layoffs, enrollment caps and elimination of dozens of majors.