ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a pilot killed in a single-engine plane crash along the Georgia coast was an 80-year-old man from South Carolina.

SAVANNAH — The unofficial start of summer feels more like its blistering peak in parts of the Deep South, where temperatures at or near 100 degrees are setting heat records during the Memorial Day weekend.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The airport for one of Georgia's top tourist destinations reports passenger growth exceeded 13% last year.

GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say two people have drowned in unrelated incidents on Lake Lanier over the busy Memorial Day weekend.

DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities say a Georgia tourist downed in the Gulf of Mexico.

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. (AP) — The Houston County Sheriff's Office has debuted its latest law-enforcement tool, an Inspire 1 drone.

JESUP, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia woman has been sentenced to jail for stealing money from high school students who thought they were paying for a senior class cruise.

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A police department in metro Atlanta has announced a new opioid addiction intervention program as deaths from overdoses in Cobb County appear to be on the decline.

Food deserts, or areas where there's nowhere to buy fresh, healthy food, don't just happen on their own. Everything from city codes to discriminatory lending practices have kept stores and developers from investing in neighborhoods. Now, city planners in Savannah are trying to write codes th…

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — A small plane crashed and caught fire on St. Simons Island, killing the pilot.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration says it's investigating a decision to exclude Chick-fil-A from an airport concession contract in San Antonio over opposition to the fast-food chain owners' record on LGBT issues.

ATLANTA (AP) — More than a third of small towns in Georgia lost population in the last year, highlighting the challenges of reviving rural areas.

ATLANTA (AP) — Emory University has a new leader for its law school.

It's springtime in Georgia. The weather is warming, gardens are blooming and animals, well, they're having babies. Lots and lots of babies. Sometimes, those babies need help.

It’s springtime in Georgia. The weather is warming, gardens are blooming and animals, well, they’re having babies. Lots and lots of babies. Sometimes, those babies need help.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's inspector general's office has taken charge of auditing and centralizing sexual harassment complaints across state agencies. But the office has not been provided additional money or staff, even as its workload has increased significantly, the Atlanta-Journal Constitu…

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Police in coastal Georgia say they're searching for a driver who fled a crash that killed a pedestrian on Interstate 95.

FOLKSTON, Ga. (AP) — Officials say firefighters have almost completely contained a small wildfire burning near the edge of a federally protected swamp in south Georgia.