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(CNN) -- A preliminary investigation is under way into an altercation that left a high school football coach hospitalized with severe facial injuries after a Georgia football game, a sheriff's investigator told CNN on Tuesday. Inspector Ricky Brown of the Hancock County Sheriff's Department said...

Atlanta (CNN) -- Are you out of work? Are you looking for a job? Do you live in Georgia? If the answer to those questions is "yes," Gov. Nathan Deal has an idea for you: Become a farm worker. "We still have an unemployment level here that is unacceptably high, whether or not we can provide...

-- The mother of Kristi Cornwell, whose remains were discovered nearly a year and a half after she disappeared, said on Monday she is thankful to finally be able to bring her daughter home. "We didn't want it to end this way, but that's the way it is. And we can bring her home now," said Jo Ann...

Atlanta -- Defendants with limited English-language skills have a constitutional right to court interpreters in criminal trials, the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled Monday. The ruling came in a case involving a Mandarin Chinese speaker who was sentenced to 10 years in prison on two counts of...

Georgia's public colleges have adopted new policies that officials say will prevent illegal immigrants from attending five high-demand schools and from being admitted ahead of legally and academically qualified residents at the rest of the state's public institutions of higher learning. The...

University of Georgia partiers arrested ATHENS, Ga., A total of 43 University of Georgia students were arrested on drug and liquor charges during a two-week period, a student newspaper says. That's the period since the Princeton Review declared the university the top U.S. party school, The...

Georgia inmate arrested trying to get back in jail -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By The Associated Press WOODBINE, Ga. - Authorities in Georgia say they arrested an escaped jail inmate trying to sneak back into the lockup with cigarettes...