Topic: Brian Kemp

A Georgia police officer was shot and killed while responding to a call near a shopping center in an Atlanta suburb, officials confirmed.

Effingham County (Ga.) Judge Stephen Yekel died by suicide while inside a county courtroom where he was slated to serve his last day on the bench on Tuesday.

Visitors began arriving at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta Sunday evening to pay tribute to and share memories of the late President Jimmy Carter who died Sunday at the age of 100.

President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Georgia Sen. David Perdue as ambassador to China at a time when the country's relationship with the United States is particularly tense.

The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday rejected a lower court's ruling that says the state's near-total abortion ban was unconstitutional.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump returned to the scene of the July 13 assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pa., on Saturday while Democratic opponent Kamala Harris traveled to North Carolina.

President Joe Biden issued condolences and promised more aid for victims of Hurricane Helene in visits to Georgia and Florida on Thursday, neither of which were attended by the states' Republican governors.

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is asking the state's Supreme Court to reinstate its six-week abortion ban, after a county judge earlier this week ruled it unconstitutional.

Dozens of people have died and millions are without power in the southeastern U.S. in the wake of Helene, a tropical storm as of Friday morning after coming ashore in Florida in the night as a powerful Cat. 4 storm.

Two 14-year-old students and two teachers were killed in a mass shooting Wednesday that also injured nine others at a Georgia high school, according to police who said the gunman is a 14-year-old boy.