STATE/REGIONAL NEWS

The 22-year-old's mother says two uniformed soldiers came to her house 11:30 p.m. Thursday night to deliver the news of her son's death.

Organizers of a cleanup at West Point Lake are hoping for a record turnout to help remove debris from the big lake.

About 2,000 charter school students, teachers and supporters gathered outside the Gold Dome on Friday to rally support for their schools.

A former deputy with the Polk County Sheriff's Department pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court to mail fraud relating to a false insurance claim on a motorcycle.

Georgia Tech's College of Management has received a $5 million gift along with a $20 million challenge grant from an anonymous donor.

East Point police are looking for whomever who broke into a Kay Jewelers store and made off with at $1 million worth of jewelry.

Georgia is kicking off its "Apply to College Week" where high school students statewide will get help with applications and finding financial aid.

A Newnan man has been arrested on suspicion of robbing banks in the Columbus area.

The shooting Thursday afternoon prompted an alert at the campus telling students and staff to avoid the university's golf course, where the shooter had been spotted.

Officials at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital say they plan to create four new community health "super centers."

The staff of the Georgia Department of Transportation is proposing that the state add toll lanes to stretches of several major highways in metro Atlanta.

An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up more artifacts that he believes pinpoint part of the trail of the 16th century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.

The University of Georgia marching band is dedicating its new practice field Thursday.

The runoff for mayor in Atlanta will be an expensive, bare-knuckles brawl if history is any guide. The contest could lay bare racial divisions in the city that served as the cradle of the civil rights movement.

Executives with the SkyTeam alliance said Thursday they want Japan Airlines to join their group and suggested that doing so could be lucrative for the troubled carrier.

Camden County commissioners say an independent study is needed before deciding how to deal with overcrowding at the coastal county's jail, but Sheriff Tommy Gregory says something must be done soon.

The staff of the Georgia Department of Transportation is proposing that the state add toll lanes to stretches of several major highways in metro Atlanta.

Fulton County Board of Elections Director Barry Garner said the memory cards were inadvertently left in seven Atlanta precincts.

Members of Congress from Alabama, Florida and Georgia have sent a letter to the governors of the three states urging them to act quickly in resolving the ongoing water dispute.