COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Billy Harold Watts was a decorated and disabled Vietnam War veteran. He had six children, 14 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

MACON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man faces a federal prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to carrying a homemade gun that was disguised as an ink pen.

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia woman who is believed to have fatally shot her grown son and daughter before killing herself had bragged about her children on social media not long before the bodies were discovered.

ATLANTA (AP) — The mother of the 12-year-old boy who was shot near an Atlanta high school football stadium may never walk again.

ATLANTA (AP) — A missing Georgia man found dead is once again missing after his remains were shipped through FedEx and lost.

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — Serial killer who preyed on older gay men around the US East Coast 25 years ago is executed in Florida.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Eight executives of an Atlanta-based package company are among the 10 people who escaped a plane crash at a small Northern California airport Wednesday.

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police and a local judge are fighting over the treatment of a teen convicted of gang-related crimes who was rearrested only to be released the next day.

ATLANTA (AP) — Police say two women and a man were found shot to death inside a town house in the Vinings area of Cobb County just northwest of Atlanta.

MACON, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a Georgia inmate hanged himself in his isolation cell while two deputies and a nurse failed to follow inmate monitoring policy.

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A former Georgia deputy has been accused of drug possession and providing alcohol to three people under the age of 21.

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia woman is dead and two other people are recovering after a shooting in Fulton County.

LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — A Georgia woman who authorities say was fatally struck while trying to jump on the hood of a moving semitruck in South Carolina has been identified.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say two motorists have been injured when their cars went airborne over a collapsed bridge span near the Florida-Georgia Line.

Recent editorials from Georgia newspapers:

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police say a 63-year-old Lincoln woman was sweet-talked out of $162,000 by someone she met on social media.

PARKER, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a convicted robber from Alabama who left his Georgia work-release program and allegedly killed a man in Florida has killed himself.

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A 17-year-old Georgia boy is accused of bringing a loaded 9mm gun on his school bus and to his high school, which was subsequently locked down amid threats.