The brief-flying state flag was a compromise intended to shrink the Confederate emblem but incorporate the symbol in a mini-montage of old Georgia flags.

The flag is a divisive issue in Georgia. From 1956 until 2001, its prominent feature was the rebel cross. But in 2001, then-Gov. Roy Barnes -- concerned that the flag’s association with slavery ...

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports that six months after the Georgia legislature adopted a new state flag with a reduced confederate emblem, some people want to bring back the old flag. People in the town ...

After months of debating Georgia's flag, state lawmakers struck a surprise compromise Friday — an entirely new flag that echoes an old Confederate flag but does not include the divisive Dixie ...

The 17-year-old teen arrested for the shooting deaths of her mother and stepfather purportedly spent the months after their ...

When Georgia retired its Confederate-dominated state flag two years ago, Ray Johnson refused to surrender the red-and-blue banner flying in his own front yard.

The old Georgia state flag could be the only thing standing in the way of a new museum. Wick's Tavern is the oldest commercial building in Carroll County. Historians say it was once a gathering ...

Georgia voters will choose between the new flag and the 2001 flag in a referendum next March. Few give the old flag any chance to win.

A 15-year-old boy was critically shot by a police officer outside a Georgia amusement park over the weekend when police say they were fired upon while assisting with crowd control, state officials ...

The employee, married mother of three Andrea Crook, was a passenger in the Ford Econoline van riding on a staff-only road at the Six Flags Over Georgia park ...