One U.S. Army unit is offering troops a reenlistment bonus of four extra days off timed around the November release of the video game Grand Theft Auto VI.

Georgia's oldest city is welcoming a truckload of historical treasures from the earlier period of U.S. history.

Kindergarten and first grade students at a Georgia school are mourning their teacher days after she was killed by a driver who authorities say was fleeing federal immigration officers.

Georgia lawmakers are moving to void a Savannah ordinance that fines or jails people for leaving guns in unlocked cars.

U.S. immigration officials say some 475 people were detained during an immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles.

Immigration agents are conducting a raid at the sprawling industrial site where Hyundai makes electric vehicles in southeast Georgia.

A 45-year-old man from Savannah, Georgia, was arrested in Michigan after reportedly trying to solicit sex from a child.

Former Food Network star Paula Deen has abruptly closed the Savannah, Georgia, restaurant she started with her two sons nearly three decades ago.

Residents in the Southeast U.S. are no strangers to hot weather in the summertime.

Congressman Buddy Carter has become the first Republican to jump into the race to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff in 2026.

U.S. regulators have concluded a monthslong review of their environmental permit for Hyundai's $7.6 billion electric vehicle plant in Georgia, finding that no changes are needed.

St. Patrick’s Day has been marked in cities across the country with boisterous parades and celebrations.

A U.S. Navy warship has arrived in Cambodia, the first such visit in eight years to a nation that is China’s close ally in Southeast Asia.

A Georgia judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging a Savannah city ordinance that imposes fines or even jail time for people who leave guns in unlocked cars.

Survivors of a deadly walkway collapse at a state-operated ferry dock in Georgia say state officials should help them pay for funerals for the seven people killed as well as medical bills and counseling for those who lived.

Donald Trump is again criticizing the Biden administration’s financial support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.

Donald Trump has pledged to stop U.S. businesses from shipping jobs overseas and to take other countries’ jobs and factories by relying heavily on sweeping tariffs.

A judge is weighing whether a Georgia city can fine or even jail people for leaving guns in unlocked cars.

Hyundai is aiming to broaden the appeal of its Ioniq 5 electric SUVs with 2025 models boasting improved battery range and additional charging options.

Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, dropped in on a high school band practice as part of a two-day bus tour through southeast Georgia.

Federal forecasters are still predicting a highly active Atlantic hurricane season thanks to near-record sea surface temperatures and the possibility of La Nina.

Residents of one Georgia neighborhood are cleaning up homes flooded by tropical weather for the second time in eight years.

The extreme weather seen in places across the United States shows it doesn’t take a catastrophic hurricane to cause significant damage.

The Debby storm system could cause historic rainfall and flooding in parts of the Southeast, including Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina.

Tropical Storm Debby has drenched coastal cities in Georgia and South Carolina and is not finished bringing heavy rain to the eastern U.S. Debby was centered just east of Savannah on Tuesday afternoon.

The king and queen of the Netherlands are taking a day of their U.S. trip to visit Savannah, Georgia — a city that is both a historic gem and a growing powerhouse in global trade.

Government scientists say a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale has been found dead off the coast of Georgia, marking the rare species' second fatality in the past month.

Immigration powered population gains in the United States for a second year in a row.

Construction of Hyundai's first U.S. plant dedicated to making electric vehicles is moving quickly.

The Florida county sheriff where Hurricane Idalia made landfall as a Category 3 storm says so far there have been no reported deaths or serious injuries.

Leaders of Georgia's oldest city have made history by voting to name one of Savannah's treasured downtown squares for a Black woman who taught formerly enslaved people to read and write.

The historic downtown of Savannah, Georgia, boasts nearly two dozen public squares.

A Georgia judge says rapper Quando Rondo can no longer drive and must undergo drug testing if he wants to stay out of jail while awaiting trial on gang and drug charges.

Prosecutors in Georgia want rapper Quando Rondo back in jail after he crashed a car while awaiting trial on gang and drug charges.

The rapper Quando Rondo has been jailed after being indicted on drug and gang charges in his hometown of Savannah, Georgia.

A federal agency says there was “insufficient support” beneath part of an upper floor that collapsed during renovations on the historic federal courthouse in Savannah, Georgia.

Larry “Gator” Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and becoming a county commissioner in his native Savannah, has died.

Officials say three construction workers were injured when part of an upper floor collapsed inside the historic federal courthouse in Savannah, Georgia.

Cities across the United States are celebrating St. Patrick's Day Parades, kicking off a weekend of revelry.

The Port of Savannah plans a $410 million overhaul of one of its sprawling terminals to make room for loading and unloading larger ships.

A remembrance service was held at Bridgewood Church in Clarkston to mark one year since the shooting at Oxford High School.

Leaders of Georgia's oldest city have voted to strip the name of a former vice president who advocated for slavery from a public square named in his honor more than 170 years ago.

Police say a Georgia toddler who was reported missing by his mother last week is believed to be dead and his mother has been named a suspect in the death.

At least 66 clinics have stopped providing abortions in 15 states since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade.

The Southern California teenager who was killed this week alongside her father in a shootout with law enforcement along an interstate east of Los Angeles was with him a day earlier when he fatally shot her mother.

Authorities say the Southern California man who was accused of killing his estranged wife and abducting their 15-year-old daughter had been living with the teenager out of his pickup truck and hotels for weeks before the violence.

The state of Georgia and local governments are giving Hyundai Motor Group incentives worth $1.8 billion to build electric vehicles in the state.

Georgia officials are close to finalizing a deal with automaker Hyundai to build a $5.5 billion electric car plant near Savannah.

LeBron James might be on the cusp of setting another record.

Following violent storms blamed for killing at least three people, Southerners cleared fallen trees from roadways and began cleaning up debris from homes and buildings smashed by suspected tornadoes as forecasters warned more violent weather was likely on the way.

Authorities say one person is dead in Georgia and another in Texas amid damaging storms, high winds and tornadoes around the South.

If you’re in the Jacksonville, Florida area, you’ve likely seen the logjam of container ships sitting idly offshore. The vessels are packed with items destined for store shelves -- and they’re things business owners and consumers desperately need delivered.

St. Patrick’s Day celebrations across the country are back after a two-year hiatus.

Park fountains are gushing with water dyed bright green, hotels are filling up and bar owners are making sure they have lots of beer and extra staff to sell it.

Clogged U.S. ports are being given access to nearly $450 million in federal money from President Joe Biden’s infrastructure law.

The Port of Savannah has added another month to its streak of record cargo volumes amid a surge that's forced U.S. seaports to scramble to meet demand.

The U.S. economy grew last year at the fastest pace since Ronald Reagan’s presidency, bouncing back with resilience from 2020′s brief but devastating coronavirus recession.

The Port of Savannah is reporting record cargo volumes for 2021 thanks to a surge in trade that saw its container yard cramped for space and ships waiting at sea.

We might not be able to claim that 2021 was *the* wildest year in recent history (2020 will likely get that credit for quite some time), but it might be a close second.

The U.S. trade deficit hit an all-time high of $80.9 billion in September as American exports fell sharply while imports, even with supply chain problems at American ports, kept climbing.

The U.S. trade deficit increased to a record $73.3 billion in August as a small gain in exports was swamped by a much larger increase in imports.

The U.S. economy expanded at a 6.7% annual pace from April through June, the Commerce Department said Thursday, slightly upgrading its estimate of last quarter’s growth in the face of a resurgence of COVID-19 in the form of the delta variant.

It’s never too early to start planning that next trip. Do you have a destination in mind?

COVID-19 plasma shortage: Donors could win trip to Super Bowl next yearThe American Red Cross is in search of COVID-19 plasma donors. Woman reported missing on New Year’s Day found deadA woman who was reported missing on New Year’s Day has been found dead in a field behind a Southgate apartment complex. On Saturday, the state reported a total of 497,127 cases and 12,598 deaths. New COVID-19 cases are slowing but deaths remain high in Michigan. According to Johns Hopkins University, more than 20.2 million cases have been reported across the country as of Jan. 2.

Perdue got about 88,000 more votes than Ossoff in the general election, but a Libertarian candidate’s 115,000 votes kept him from topping 50%, which is required to win. Warnock got 1.6 million votes, while Loeffler got nearly 1.3 million and Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Collins placed third with nearly a million votes. No ballots, including absentee ballots received in advance of Election Day, can be counted until the polls close. Second, Republican voters have been more likely to vote in person, either on Election Day or during the early voting period. In November, more than 5 percent of Georgia’s votes were counted after noon on the day after Election Day.

Officials sort ballots during an audit at the Floyd County administration building in Rome, Ga. on Friday morning, Nov. 13, 2020. Election officials in Georgias 159 counties are undertaking a hand tally of the presidential race that stems from an audit required by state law. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)ATLANTA – Masked election workers in teams of two began counting ballots Friday in counties across Georgia, a hand tally of the presidential race that stems from an audit required by a new state law. Across the state, audit teams worked with batches of paper ballots, dividing them into piles for each candidate, before counting each pile by hand. But critics have accused him of caving to Trump after the president's campaign and state Republicans requested a hand recount.

(AP Photo/Russ Bynum)RIO RANCHO, N.M. – A group of U.S. Black scholars, activists and writers has launched a new project they say will combat misleading information online around voting, reparations and immigration, supporters announced Friday. The newly formed National Black Cultural Information Trust seeks to counter fake social media accounts and Twitter trolls that often discourage Black voters from participating in elections or seek to turn Black voters against other communities of color. The effort isn't meant to silence groups that are behind any hashtag but counter “bad actors” who are using the hashtags to disseminate false information, Aiwuyor said. The founders also took issue with the National Black Cultural Information Trust on Twitter after the announcement that the project would monitor the #ADOS hashtag for xenophobic comments and false information. But also to measure the plunder of the ADOS community from 1619 to today.”Members of the National Black Cultural Information Trust plan to monitor social media posts and flag those spreading misleading and fake stories.

Khani Morgan, wearing a mask and face shield to guard against the coronavirus, waits in line to vote early on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, in Savannah, Ga. Black people are going to the polls by the thousands and waiting in lines for hours to vote early in Georgia. Morgan says her great-grandmother who was born a slave talked about the importance of voting, so "I won't let anything get in the way of me and this opportunity." (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)

SAVANNAH, Ga. The Georgia man whose cellphone video of Ahmaud Arberys fatal shooting helped reignite the case was charged with murder Thursday, making him the third person arrested more than two months after the slaying. Arbery was slain Feb. 23 when a white father and son armed themselves and pursued him after spotting the 25-year-old black man running in their neighborhood. Gregory McMichael told police he suspected Arbery was a burglar and that Arbery attacked his son before being shot. The video shows Arbery run around the truck to the right before he cuts back in front of it. Arbery can be seen punching a man holding what appears to be a shotgun, who then fires a third shot point-blank.

When Harriet the toy monkey went missing from her tiny human, Savannah, during a recent trip to Buckingham Palace, the 5-year-old Australian was devastated. "She sneaked out of daddy's bag and she goes into the garden shed," Savannah, who takes Harriet on adventures all over the world, told APTN. After their trip back to Adelaide minus one, Savannah and some kindergarten friends decided to write a letter to Buckingham Palace. The palace had, indeed, found Harriet and sent her home. Now Harriet even has a new friend a toy corgi named Rex, which the palace sent along so Harriet wouldn't get lonely on her trip home.