ATLANTA — The head of a multi-million-dollar drug trafficking and money laundering ring faces at least a decade in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges involving methamphetamine “conversion” laboratories. Monica Dominguez Torres, 36, of Mexico, pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to commit money laundering, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia announced Monday.

ATLANTA – Eleven people have been arrested on drug, gun, and other charges following an investigation into gang-related criminal activities in Middle Georgia.

ATLANTA — Some Georgia lawmakers have been trying for years without success to raise Georgia’s tax on cigarettes, but some think cuts at the federal level may finally stir interest in their cause.

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Atlanta family whose home was wrongly raided by the FBI will get a new day in court, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday.

ATLANTA (AP) — Relatives of seven people who drowned in waters off a Georgia island after a ferry dock walkway collapsed announced Wednesday they filed a lawsuit against the companies that designed and built it.

ATLANTA – Georgia will be getting an 11th area code soon, with the new 565 area code being added as an overlay to the existing 912 area code in the southeastern part of the state, the Georgia Public Service Commission announced Tuesday.

ATLANTA – The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld only one of seven changes to state election laws approved by the Republican-controlled State Election Board before last November’s elections.

State School Superintendent Richard Woods has named Christy Todd – the 2024 Georgia Teacher of the Year and a Shorter University alumna who went on to lead teacher recruitment and retention projects at the Georgia Department of Education – as the Department’s next Chief of Staff.

WINDER, Ga. (AP) — Officials in the Georgia school district where four people were killed in a September shooting at Apalachee High School are considering a property tax increase to pay for school-based police officers.

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out murder charges against a former Atlanta police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man hiding in a closet. U.S. District Judge Michael Brown ruled Tuesday that Sung Kim, a 26-year veteran of the Atlanta police department, acted in self-defense and shouldn't face charges in the 2019 killing of 21-year-old Jimmy Atchison.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The mayor of a small city in Georgia and two former election officials have been jailed on felony charges stemming from efforts last November to halt a local election after one of the mayor's allies was disqualified from a city council race.

The Georgia Department of Revenue will begin issuing one-time state income tax refunds to taxpayers this week, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Monday. The General Assembly approved the rebate – the third this decade – during this year’s legislative session.

ATLANTA (AP) — John Kennedy, the top-ranking Republican in Georgia's state Senate, on Monday joined a growing field of GOP candidates seeking to become the state's next lieutenant governor in 2026.

ATLANTA (AP) — A police officer handling security at a southwest Atlanta apartment complex shot and killed a person Sunday morning who was breaking into the officer's patrol car and charged at him with a metal pipe, authorities said.

ATLANTA – The Marietta-based Wellstar Health System is planning to build a 230-bed hospital in Acworth.

ATLANTA (AP) — A former Georgia police officer who shot and killed an unarmed, naked man pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of aggravated assault and won't serve any additional time behind bars.

ATLANTA — Georgia State Patrol troopers investigated four fatal traffic crashes, and local law enforcement agencies investigated 10 fatal traffic crashes resulting in 14 deaths across the state during the 78-hour Memorial Day holiday travel period.

ATLANTA – It will remain illegal for people under 21 to carry a handgun in most public places in Georgia after the state Supreme Court upheld state limits on the right to bear arms.

ATLANTA — Mercedes-Benz will move up to 500 jobs to an existing facility in Sandy Springs as part of the automaker's plan to establish its North American headquarters in Fulton County, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Thursday.

ATLANTA — The busy summer travel season begins this Memorial Day holiday weekend. Troopers and Officers will be on high-visibility patrols on the interstates, state routes, and local streets keeping an eye out for impaired drivers and other traffic violations that could potentially cause a crash.

The smoke that filled the cabin of a Delta flight as it took off from the Atlanta airport in February was so thick that the lead flight attendant had trouble seeing past the first row of passengers, and the pilots donned oxygen masks as a precaution.

ATLANTA — Georgia Right to Life announced earlier this month that the 2025 True to Life Oratory Contest winner is Rebecca Miller.  This year’s Oratory Contest, held recently in Atlanta, strives to promote the ability of high school juniors and seniors to share their pro-life views by researching, developing, and delivering a speech about abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, assisted suicide, stem cell research, or emerging technology.

ATLANTA – Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms entered the 2026 race for governor Tuesday. Bottoms, a lawyer, served two terms on the Atlanta City Council before being elected mayor in 2017. After deciding not to seek reelection four years later, she joined the Biden administration as a senior advisor and director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.

ATLANTA – Georgia Power will not seek to raise base rates for the next three years under a proposed agreement the Atlanta-based utility announced Monday. The agreement between the company and the state Public Service Commission’s (PSC) Advocacy Staff – if approved by the five-member PSC – would cancel the rate case Georgia Power was planning to submit to the commission by July 1.

CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — The company that operated a Georgia chlorine plant with a history of explosions, chemical fires, and toxic clouds that have drifted over neighborhoods outside Atlanta has decided not to rebuild the main manufacturing facility in Conyers.