ATLANTA - Gov. Nathan Deal has signed a bill to standardize annual evaluations for Georgia teachers and principals based, in part, on student performance.

Former Columbia County Commissioner Scott Dean is scheduled to be back in court June 15 for a hearing for a motion for a new trial.

...data obtained by The Associated Press. The figures show the number of medical reprieves granted by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has jumped from 51 in 2008 to 89 in the most recent fiscal year.Department of Corrections Commissioner...

A Superior Court judge denied former Columbia County Commissioner Scott Dean a new child molestation trial Friday.

...that appeal ultimately fail, McNeil's next opportunity for freedom would be a clemency request to the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles. Yurachek said he is not optimistic about any hearings in front of that body, though Barber and Jealous said...

...witnesses had recanted their testimony identifying Davis as the killer. The court upheld his conviction and the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied Davis clemency.The march will begin at 6 p.m. at the Paine College library and end at the college...

...violence; 50,000 students attended the sessions last year.Clemency denied death row inmateATLANTA - The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has voted to deny clemency to death row inmate Warren Lee Hill, who is facing execution Wednesday.The...

About 50 Paine College students held a silent march and vigil to commemorate the anniversary of the execution of Troy Davis, a Georgia death row inmate.

An Augusta man convicted of taking part in a series of murders in 1976, including the killing of an 11-year-old boy, will be considered for parole this month.

...being shot as he lay on the ground. Little Bonnie was not as lucky.I am asking everyone to contact the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles through its website ? www.pap.state.ga.us ? to let officials know whether they should parole people...