Georgia

According to family members, one of Atlanta’s most revered civil rights icons and a lightning rod for community activism has died at the age of 98.

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has signed an executive order giving restaurants in the city the ability to serve alcohol to go temporarily. 

By phone, Karen and Harry Dever showed FOX 5 their room at Dobbins Air Reserve Base and joked about how they use their luggage and dresser drawers. It's a far cry from the balcony suite cabin they were confined to on the Grand Princess a week ago. Now they can get out and about as they wait out the rest of their two-week quarantine.

Next month's 2020 Masters Tournament has been postponed, Augusta National says.

A 7-year-old was stood up by her father for her school’s dad-daughter, luckily her big brother came to the rescue.

Hartsfield-Jackson's general manager says that they are going to be expanding the coronavirus screenings beyond flights coming in from Asia.

An Atlanta firefighter faces suspension in connection with his attempt to get a woman out of a burning building. 

5-year-old Noah Woods pulled his 2-year-old sister through a window when he realized their house was on fire. He went back in to alert the other members of his family. Officials say he saved lives.

The enormous tree smashed into the northwest Atlanta home, killing an elderly woman who is believed to have been in the bedroom.

Former President Jimmy Carter returns to his hometown church after being treated for urinary tract infection.

Lewis, the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists in a group once led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., said in a statement that cancer was discovered this month during a routine medical visit. He said subsequent tests confirmed the diagnosis of stage IV pancreatic cancer.

A Georgia police officer investigated her own background and found three brothers who grew up in the city where she moved for her current job. What’s more, two of them were career public service, like their sister, according to a police department’s Facebook post.

Thomas Callaway, a 43-year-old youth minister from  Statesboro, was charged Friday with sexual battery, a misdemeanor, in Chatham County, records show.

An 11-year-old boy in Georgia has a lot to be thankful for this holiday season after kicking cancer in less than a year. 

Georgia has executed a man convicted in the 1994 killing of a convenience store clerk.

The convicted rapist was serving a life sentence when he was accidentally released.

Carter, who turned 95 this month, is the longest living president in U.S. history.

Most of the Georgia mall heavily featured in the latest season of Netflix's "Stranger Things" is going up for sale.

A Georgia woman captured on video her hilarious rescue of a deer who kept getting stuck.