Georgia law prohibits minors from possessing handguns, but there is no minimum age to possess a rifle or shotgun in Georgia. The state also has few restrictions for adults who wish to carry firearms.

It’s brutal and often done as dozens of spectators watch. Cockfighting involves forcing roosters — known as gamecocks — to fight in a pit with metal objects attached to their legs, often ...

Georgia's new law that requires children younger than 16 to get parental permission to create social media accounts has been challenged a month before restrictions were supposed to go into effect.

are fighting centuries of history and U.S. law that say a privately-owned railroad can knock on their door in Sparta, Georgia, and tell them that they need to sell a three-quarter-mile strip of ...

After the murder of Laken Riley last year by a Venezuelan migrant, Georgia enacted a law meant to crack down on illegal immigration. But a lack of funding is dampening its effect. Let's find out ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Two women behind bars in Atlanta sued the state of Georgia on Friday over a recent law that added a cash bail requirement for more crimes, many of them misdemeanors. The lawsuit ...

The family of Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old mother and nurse, is upset that Georgia’s law that restricts abortion once cardiac activity is detected doesn’t allow relatives to have a say in ...