As thousands of beachgoers - restless from the isolation and deprivation of being locked down because of the coronavirus - descend on the Georgia coast this weekend, one restaurant in Tybee Island has found a unique way to maintain social distancing requirements.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Augusta's government may pay to overhaul elevators at a former jail in order to attract movie makers.

MONTEZUMA, Ga. (AP) — A middle Georgia man could face criminal charges for shooting at paramedics.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Work is beginning on a $261 million project to overhaul the intersection of Interstate 16 and Interstate 95 near Savannah.

ATLANTA (AP) — Gov. Brian Kemp is appointing a district attorney to the bench in a two-county judicial circuit east of Atlanta.

VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — Anna Battle got a call, and she answered it.

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A Democrat running for sheriff in a suburban Atlanta county faces questions about an arrest that led to a four-day suspension when he was a deputy.

ATLANTA (AP) — Travelers hitting the highways in Georgia this holiday weekend will be seeing some new advice such as: “Wash Your Hands Like Your Momma Is Watchin’.”

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia counties that saw flooding earlier this year can apply for up to $6 million in emergency road repair grants.

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A former employee at a suburban Atlanta business is accused of stealing nearly $600,000 from a company over nearly two years.

PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (AP) — A coastal Georgia man has been arrested on charges that he wanted to hire someone to kill his estranged wife.

Georgia is lagging in its count of the 2020 U.S. Census as outreach workers struggle reaching communities in isolated areas for counting amid the coronavirus pandemic.

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — In the age of COVID-19, here’s what it takes to plant and harvest vegetables and fruits at UGArden that feed about 60 food-insecure families in Athens.

NORCROSS, Ga. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence traveled Friday to Georgia, where he had lunch with Gov. Brian Kemp at a cafe and praised the state — one of the first to allow businesses to start up again despite the coronavirus outbreak.

Gov. Brian Kemp urged Georgians Thursday to have patience with public health officials amid reports over questionable data-keeping methods for positive cases of coronavirus in the state.