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Child's body found in landfill, police looking for girl say

Police looking for a missing 7-year-old Florida girl said Wednesday they have found the body of a child in a landfill in south Georgia, about an hour from the girl's home.

Pastor fatally shot by police in drug sting

A north Georgia pastor was shot to death by police when he struck an officer with his car after he was seen in a vehicle with a drug suspect, authorities told CNN.

Dogs in fatal attack rounded up, euthanized

A pack of dogs brought down and killed an animal-loving couple last weekend in rural northeastern Georgia, and a similar tragedy could occur anywhere dogs roam freely, authorities say.

Son claims body of professor accused in killings

The body of accused triple killer and University of Georgia professor George Zinkhan was claimed by a relative Friday, nearly a week after Zinkhan was found dead, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.

Authorities: Body of UGA professor identified

The body of a University of Georgia professor accused of killing three people was found Saturday buried in woods near Athens, Georgia, authorities said.

Four arrested in 2 states in assisted-suicide probe

Four people in two states have been arrested as part of an investigation into the Final Exit Network, an organization that police believe helped a Georgia man end his life in June, authorities said Thursday.

New evidence collected in 1946 lynching case

State and federal investigators said Tuesday that they spent the past two days gathering evidence in the last documented mass lynching in the United States: a grisly slaying of four people that has remained unsolved for more than six decades.

Slaying suspect's 2nd van found

Investigators have found a second van that belonged to a man charged with kidnapping and killing a Georgia hiker, authorities said Friday.

Blood-stained clothes, missing hiker's ID found

Investigators found IDs belonging to missing hiker Meredith Emerson along with blood-stained clothes, leading authorities to charge Gary Michael Hilton with kidnapping with intent to cause bodily injury, according to a criminal warrant filed Saturday.

Person of interest in missing hiker case in custody

The man last seen with missing hiker Meredith Emerson in the north Georgia mountains is in custody and is being questioned by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, authorities announced Friday evening.

Child's body found in landfill, police looking for girl say

Police looking for a missing 7-year-old Florida girl said Wednesday they have found the body of a child in a landfill in south Georgia, about an hour from the girl's home.

Pastor fatally shot by police in drug sting

A north Georgia pastor was shot to death by police when he struck an officer with his car after he was seen in a vehicle with a drug suspect, authorities told CNN.

Dogs in fatal attack rounded up, euthanized

A pack of dogs brought down and killed an animal-loving couple last weekend in rural northeastern Georgia, and a similar tragedy could occur anywhere dogs roam freely, authorities say.

Son claims body of professor accused in killings

Authorities: Body of UGA professor identified

The body of a University of Georgia professor accused of killing three people was found Saturday buried in woods near Athens, Georgia, authorities said.

Four arrested in 2 states in assisted-suicide probe

New evidence collected in 1946 lynching case

Slaying suspect's 2nd van found

Investigators have found a second van that belonged to a man charged with kidnapping and killing a Georgia hiker, authorities said Friday.

Blood-stained clothes, missing hiker's ID found

Person of interest in missing hiker case in custody

Bared bone, tiny body led to artist's perfect picture

A man in the medical examiner's office pushed back the cheeks on Baby Grace's corpse to put a smile on her tiny, decaying face. That's how forensic artist Lois Gibson captured the open-mouthed grin with spangled risotto-sized teeth. It was one of the girl's few features that had survived six weeks in a shed during a Texas summer and nearly two months in Galveston Bay.

Time.com: Cops: Wrestler Kills Family, Then Self

Pro wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife and smothered his son before hanging himself in his weight room, a law enforcement official said

Armed man shot across street from CNN Center

An armed man was shot Thursday at around 4 p.m. in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, a spokesperson for the Georgia World Congress Center said.

Police shooting of elderly woman leads to federal probe

Federal authorities will investigate last week's police involved shooting death of an elderly woman in Atlanta, the city's police chief announced Monday.

Elderly woman's family seeks federal probe of shooting

As family members spent Thanksgiving Day boarding up the home of a 92-year-old woman who was shot to death during a police drug raid, their spokesman said they will request a federal investigation.

Couple holding attorney hostage

A couple claiming to have a bomb held a lawyer hostage in his Georgia office Monday while negotiators tried to persuade them to surrender, authorities said.

Runaway bride's story perplexes authorities

Authorities said runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks cried when she met with them Monday and recounted how she cut her hair to disguise her appearance and caught a bus heading West to escape her wedding.

Preliminary autopsy: Toddlers drowned

Two toddlers whose bodies were found in an algae-covered sanitation pond drowned, according to preliminary autopsy results, a rural Georgia county official said Tuesday.

Missing Georgia toddlers found dead

The bodies of two toddlers reported missing Saturday were found Monday in a pond near their rural Georgia home, state investigators said.

Abducted Florida boy found safe

An 11-year-old boy who authorities say was abducted from his Florida school by a family friend was found late Friday walking up a highway ramp in northern Georgia, authorities said.

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