Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has been hospitalized after a fall at his home in Plains, Georgia.

Clemson is No. 1 in the USA Today preseason coaches' poll for the first time, followed by Alabama at No. 2.

The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office has released body cam footage of the night a newborn baby was found abandoned in a plastic bag.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday signed into law one of the nation's most restrictive abortion laws, a measure that bans the procedure once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant.

Nearly 90,000 customers were without electricity in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Georgia as of midday Sunday, according to www.poweroutage.us.

About 150 people hunkered down together in a Baptist church and sang songs as deadly storms moved through the Southeast.

Authorities say an off-duty U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has killed a man outside a Walmart in Georgia.

An Atlanta police officer has shot and killed a man accused of stealing an unmarked police vehicle at a gas station.

An earthquake centered in eastern Tennessee also was felt in three other states.