MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Agriculture officials in Alabama have confirmed the presence of Africanized honeybees—sometimes called "killer bees"—in Barbour County, near the Georgia border, prompting ...

In Georgia, a billboard along Interstate 85 beckons motorists to stop at a gas station billing itself as the ”#1 LOTTERY STORE” — 2 miles (3 kilometers) from the Alabama-Georgia line.

Barbour County lies along the Alabama-Georgia line, just south of Columbus, placing the detection within miles of western Georgia. Africanized honeybees are a hybrid of European and African bee ...