More than 1.2 million Georgia students relied on free or reduced-price school meals last year. Changes to SNAP and Medicaid could make that safety net harder to reach.

Atlanta starts Monday sunny and warm, but storm chances rise sharply Tuesday and linger through the weekend.

A bomb threat emptied Arbor Place Mall Saturday night. Police later gave the all-clear but kept the mall and theater closed overnight.

A Gwinnett County jury convicted a former Lilburn child therapist of repeatedly sexually abusing a teen he met when she was 15.

A Georgia parole board halted the proposed release of former Spalding County Commissioner Donald Hawbaker after Sheriff Darrell Dix objected online.

A 4-year-old Cobb County boy with a rare heart condition is awaiting a transplant. Doctors have cleared him for one important piece of childhood: seeing Toy Story 5 in theaters.

A Tucker man convicted in a deadly DeKalb County pub shooting now has a second life sentence. Investigators said his self-defense claim was contradicted by ballistics evidence.

Eighteen neglected dogs were rescued from a Twiggs County property near the Bibb County line. Their condition and any potential charges remain unclear.

A wanted person allegedly rammed two Atlanta police cruisers, crashed into two other vehicles and fled on foot in Little Five Points. Police later took the suspect into custody.

Overnight storms left Atlanta-area homes unsafe, vehicles crushed and yards buried in debris, though no injuries were reported.

Georgia voters 50 and older are highly motivated, deeply focused on affordability and ready to make Social Security a ballot-box issue.

Scam victims can lose their savings, then face IRS bills on money stolen from retirement accounts. A bipartisan House bill aims to change that.

DeKalb County is rewriting its zoning code for the first time in nearly a decade, potentially changing how businesses and development fit into unincorporated neighborhoods.