Sacramento police said an elderly man scared off would-be robbers inside his home when he pulled a gun and started shooting.

The U.S. Department of Justice has signed off on a Georgia program designed to keep the voter records of domestic violence victims confidential.

Few people are more attached to their heritage than the Livseys and the Andersons of the Promised Land community in southeast Gwinnett County.

Atlanta -- As the daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. prepares to take the helm of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights organization co-founded by her famous father is embroiled in an internal investigation that is distracting leaders from the group's mission.

Karen Handel is resigning as Georgia's secretary of state to dedicate herself full time to her campaign for governor.

The folks who run Georgia prisons are going to form a "Sex Offender Apprehension Team" to track down probation violators and catch those committing new crimes.

The Georgia Department of Transportation plans to suspend construction-related lane closures on all interstate highways and all major state routes for five days to help ease holiday traffic congestion.

Special to the Sentinel Campuses of Georgia Highlands College and the University of West Georgia will relocate to the old Cub Foods building on Stewart Parkway next year.

Authorities say the bodies of a woman and her husband have been found in a Dawson County river, and the woman's stepfather was arrested.

Georgia has launched a Web site designed to motivate residents of the state to get involved and to respond to the 2010 census.