ATLANTA – One of the world’s leading battery manufacturers will establish its new Global Headquarters for Research and Development in Atlanta, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday. Duracell will invest $56 million in the project, which will create 110 jobs.

ATLANTA – A man who shot at a Georgia trooper with a Glock handgun modified for automatic fire will spend a decade in prison, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.

ATLANTA – Georgia cities, counties, and school districts are scrambling to meet a March 1 deadline for deciding whether to opt out of offering a property tax break the state’s voters approved last fall in a constitutional amendment. But legislation pending in the Georgia House of Representatives would extend that deadline by four years.

ATLANTA – A former Macon area poll worker pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to mailing a bomb threat to a local elections office and admitted lying about it to the FBI.

ATLANTA – The Port of Brunswick has supplanted Baltimore as the nation’s busiest port for autos and heavy equipment.

ATLANTA – The University System of Georgia is responding to the rapid growth of artificial technology with a new degree program.

ATLANTA  — The state Department of Agriculture has lifted a suspension of poultry activities in Georgia following the successful completion of testing for bird flu with no additional detections.

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia state House member won't face a new election after a judge ruled there wasn't enough evidence to prove voters who received the wrong ballots swayed the race's outcome.

ROSWELL, Ga. (AP) — Authorities on Saturday were investigating the fatal shooting of a police officer in Georgia by a suspect who has been taken into custody. A police officer in Roswell responded to a report of a suspicious person in the parking lot of a pickleball club on Friday night, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a news release.

ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has ruled that a Georgia railroad can buy land against the will of property owners to build a track, rebuffing a challenge that a libertarian group hoped could make it harder to use eminent domain to take property.

ATLANTA – Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is asking the nation’s new attorney general to withdraw a federal lawsuit challenging election reform legislation the General Assembly passed in 2021.

ATLANTA – Sex and school sports will be a priority for both chambers of Georgia’s General Assembly this year, with House Speaker Jon Burns announcing Tuesday that his caucus will have its own version of legislation banning athletes born male from participating in girls’ and women’s sports.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to confirm former U.S. Rep. Doug Collins of Gainesville as secretary of veterans affairs.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's Republican lieutenant governor is renewing a push to expand child care tax credits. Lt. Gov. Burt Jones told The Associated Press on Tuesday that a Senate ally has introduced a bill to create a state income tax credit of up to $250 for every child under age 7, expand an existing tax credit for child care to give parents up to $300 more per child, and let employers claim a larger credit for investing in an on-site child care center.

ATLANTA – A Mitchell County grand jury has indicted 21 residents of Camilla accused of fraudulently obtaining loans from the federal Paycheck Protection Program.

ATLANTA – Homeschool students would have guaranteed access to college admission testing at their local public school under legislation backed by prominent Republican state senators. School districts that offer the SAT, ACT, PSAT/NMSQT, PreACT, or an AP exam would have to post testing dates on their websites and allow students zoned for the school to participate like enrolled students.

FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — Two U.S. Army soldiers were killed during a nighttime training accident in Georgia, the military said Friday.

ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp unveiled comprehensive tort reform legislation Thursday aimed at reining in huge jury verdicts Republicans say are making it hard for Georgia citizens and businesses to afford insurance premiums.

ATLANTA – Sex and school sports are among the first items on the agenda for the Georgia Senate this year, as lawmakers took up legislation Thursday to control participation in team competitions. A Senate panel heard and passed Senate Bill 1, which would prohibit students from competing on teams that do not match the sex on their birth certificates.

ATLANTA – The Georgia Supreme Court dismissed Tuesday a lawsuit challenging the creation of the city of Mableton inside the borders of Cobb County.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgians voted in November to limit how much of a home's increasing value can be taxed, but many school districts across the state are opting out of the cap, meaning homeowners may not benefit.

ATLANTA — Lt. Gov. Burt Jones announced a new round of legislation Friday aimed at helping small businesses by reducing government regulation.

ATLANTA (AP) — A gunman who shot and wounded three people at a busy food court in the heart of downtown Atlanta in June has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

ATLANTA – A deer shot by a hunter in South Georgia has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, the state Department of Natural Resources reported Thursday. The two-and-a-half-year-old male white-tailed deer, shot on private property in Lanier County, is the first case of the disease detected in Georgia.

ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Agriculture has detected a positive case of bird flu in a second commercial poultry flock in Elbert County.