Georgia

Leilani Simon was convicted of murder in the death of 20-month-old Quinton Simon. She will be eligible for parole.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said that bomb threats made against polling places on Tuesday were of Russian origin and not credible.

Fulton County Election Director Nadine Williams confirmed Tuesday afternoon that all polling sites are now operational again and secure.

The aluminum gangway suffered structural failure as historic Sapelo Island hosted an event celebrating its Gullah Geechee history and culture.

Seven people are believed dead after a gangway that’s part of a ferry dock collapsed on Sapelo Island, Georgia, on Saturday.

A Georgia grand jury indicted a teenage boy and his father on dozens of charges, including murder, in connection with a mass shooting last month that killed four people at Apalachee High School, officials said Thursday.

Authorities on Tuesday alerted residents of Atlanta’s eastern suburbs to shelter in place again if a chemical cloud moves over their neighborhood.

A large chemical plant fire sent chlorine gas into the air in Rockdale County, Georgia.

Some residents east of Atlanta were evacuated and others told to shelter in place after a fire at a chemical plant. Fire Chief Marian McDaniel told reporters that a sprinkler head malfunctioned around 5 a.m. Sunday at the BioLab plant in Conyers.

In the video, one person is seen falling from the ceiling as an employee of the store enters the room.

Atlanta police were searching for three people in connection with the robbery, which they estimated netted $150,000.

The Atlanta Falcons hosted the football team from Apalachee High School a week after a shooting left two students and two teachers dead. The high school players watched practice Friday from the sideline at the Falcons’ training complex in Flowery Branch. Among the victims of the Sept. 4 shooting rampage was a teacher who served as an assistant football coach...

This week’s school shooting in Georgia hit close to home for one of our producers at NBC10 Boston. Two students and two teachers were killed in the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder. One of the victims was math teacher Richard Aspinwall, who doubled as a defensive football coach. “I never thought that I would know one of...

The system, which authorities say was put in place about a week ago, prevented a “much larger tragedy,” Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said.

A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed at the very spot where a contentious monument to the confederacy stood for more than 110 years in the town square before it was dismantled in 2020.

Celery was used to conceal more than 2,300 pounds (1,043 kilograms) of meth that federal agents discovered in a truck at a farmers market outside Atlanta, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said.

A female student was shot and killed this weekend at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, the university confirmed.

A Georgia man is scheduled to be put to death in what would be the state’s first execution in more than four years.

The father of Laken Riley, a student at the University of Georgia who was killed while jogging, said he’s “angry” her death has been used politically.

A special prosecutor who had a romantic relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis formally withdrew Friday from the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump after a judge ruled one of them had to leave the case for it to move forward.