The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has confirmed a hunter-harvested deer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, the first case in Georgia.

Deer in Georgia are at risk of contracting a neurological disease with a 100 percent mortality rate. One deer in southern Georgia was found to have the infectious pathogen in its system.

An 18-year-old Georgia man has been charged with allegedly abducting a teenage girl from New York for sexual purposes. Police in Watertown accused Keller Singleton of Rome, Ga., of a felony charge of ...