Georgia

Police in Rome, Georgia, say an officer on the local bomb squad was traveling to the scene Monday when he collided with another car.

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.

Activist and politician Stacey Abrams was in New Haven Monday talking with students about the importance of civic engagement and voting.   Abrams, who twice ran for governor in Georgia and advocates for voters’ rights and voting access, also told a group of high school voters that they can have significant power once they turn voting age.   “The most…

Politician Stacey Abrams was in New Haven Monday talking with students about the importance of civic engagement and voting.  

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...

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 heartbreaking day felt in Georgia and across the country, including right here in Connecticut following a school shooting that left four dead and another nine hurt. “When there is a school shooting, it absolutely is re-traumatizing for every family that has lost a child to violence, whether it’s in a school or not,” Scarlett Lewis, Jesse Lewis Choose...

A shooting in Georgia that left two teachers and two students dead is reopening old wounds for people here in Connecticut. A Sandy Hook Elementary School mother reacts.

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.