Years after Rashard Brooks' death shook Atlanta, the Citizen Review Board issues first police shooting investigation ruling.

The deal ensures a 5,600-acre tract called Clarendon Farms in fast-growing Beaufort, S.C., will not be developed.

Republican Rick Jackson's lucrative health care contracts with the state have come under fire now that he is running for governor in Georgia.

A bill to criminalize clergy sexual abuse in Georgia gains momentum in the state senate. The legislation follows AJC reporting on allegations of abuse at a Baptist college.

The family of a DeKalb County man who died after being restrained on his stomach by police said in a federal lawsuit this week that his civil rights were violated.

Despite acknowledging a “systemic failure of due process,” Fulton judge ruled that the delay did not ultimately prejudice Leslie Singleton’s case

The bill, called "Trey's Law," would ban settlements in Georgia that keep survivors from speaking freely and make existing nondisclosure agreements harder to enforce.

A bill that could grant protections for northwest Georgia carpet companies facing a barrage of lawsuits over PFAS contamination cleared a legislative hurdle on Monday.

Residents in Gadsden, other Alabama communities downstream blame Dalton’s carpet capital for contaminated water.

Body camera footage obtained by the AJC indicates issues with the search warrant slowed the FBI, even as agents came prepared to take 2020 ballots by force.