Georgia News

ATLANTA (AP) —Two former Atlanta Police Department officers have been charged with lying to federal agents.

ATLANTA (AP) —An inmate at Atlanta's federal penitentiary was charged with paying a medical contractor to smuggle cell phones, food and illegal drugs into the prison.

ATLANTA (AP) — The only giant panda cub born at a U.S. zoo last year will soon get his name.

Savannah police say a man is dead after he fell from the top of a downtown parking garage.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A coalition of environmental groups has petitioned the government to start transplanting Florida panthers to Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp.

Bibb County authorities say a man is charged with arson in connection with a fire that damaged a 154-year-old house at the Ocmulgee National Monument.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department says it has sued seven tax preparers in five states to stop them from fraudulently claiming tax credits for first-time homebuyer and earned-income.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) —The St. Joseph's-Candler health system has agreed to repay the state of Georgia more than $2.7 million to settle claims for Medicaid overbilling.

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) —Documents filed with the state Board of Regents show the University of Georgia will pay $11.4 million to renovate four buildings at the old Navy Supply Corps school for a new Health Sciences Campus.

Authorities say a former recreation director and recreation specialist in Columbus have been indicted on seven counts related to a police investigation that led to their arrests last year.

Senate Democrats are calling for the creation of a new office that would address the minority party's concerns in this summer's redistricting process.

GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. -- Police in Glynn County are investigating a brutal robbery. They say a woman called 911 after she was robbed and beaten in her home Sunday night by two men.

Authorities are searching for a man who went missing after his kayak capsized on Norris Lake in Gwinnett County.

Authorities are looking for suspects in the hit-and-run death of a man killed while walking with his son along a Smyrna road.

Authorities have searched University Hospital in Augusta after a patient received a bomb threat.

A drifter who killed a woman in Georgia is on trial for the similar decapitation slaying of a nurse in the Florida Panhandle.

A couple on Medicare got a rebate check to help with prescription drug costs. A Chicago man with diabetes got health insurance through a new government program. And a Philadelphia businessman is hoping his company will qualify for a tax credit.

ATLANTA (AP) — Legislative leaders are moving redistricting operations in-house and tapping a prominent Republican lawyer to advise the effort, The Associated Press has learned.

NORCROSS, Ga. (AP) —Authorities say about 25 people were displaced after fire swept through their apartment building near Norcross Thursday morning,

MACON, Ga. (AP) —An audit of Macon's city finances has found that one department misspent more than $1 million in federal grants.