Governor Sonny Perdue has given his approval to $331 million in transportation projects.

Authorities say they arrested a Stone Mountain Middle School teacher when he was about to have sex with a 15-year-old student.

A 3-year-old boy is in critical condition after police say he shot himself in the stomach. Lt. Rebecca Brown with the Clayton County police department says the boy found the gun while his mother was asleep Sunday night at their Forest Park apartment. Brown said investigators believe the shooting was self-inflicted.

The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a tornado watch for the southern counties of metro Atlanta as a line of storms moves in from Alabama.

A Clayton County disciplinary panel is recommending that a high school assistant principal be suspended for three days over a controversial performance by the school’s dance team.

Clayton County’s sheriff says he needs 75 new deputies to unload a glut of unserved warrants, a move that could cost millions of dollars.  Sheriff Kem Kimbrough is already dealing with an ever-tightening budget. But it could cost several million dollars to hire that many deputies and provide them with training, weapons and vehicles.

Civil rights activists plan a march Tuesday night to protest the transfer of a grave site they believe includes the resting place of former slaves.

A Riverdale woman accused of helping her husband sexually assault their daughter is behind bars. The 33-year-old woman’s name was withheld to protect the girl’s identity.

A 28-year-old New Jersey man has been charged with felony drug trafficking after U.S. Customs agents at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport found cocaine stashed in wooden coat hangers.

The Georgia NAACP has called for an investigation after the Clayton County Commission voted to move 311 graves from a black cemetery to make room to expand a landfill.

A flight of students due to loss of accreditation will cost Clayton County schools $27 million in state funds over the next two years.

Clayton County police say three people were shot during a robbery attempt that left a teenage girl and a suspect dead.