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Police say a 21-year-old woman has been arrested on charges of fatally stabbing her sister in an Atlanta suburb.More >>

Medical issues have led former NAACP leader and civil rights pioneer Julian Bond to cancel his speaking appearance Thursday at Michigan State University for medical reasons.More >>

Decades after the alleged abuse, a man who says he was molested by a prominent scoutmaster in Davenport has filed a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America.More >>

Yellow police tape surrounds the parking lot in front of a Korean health spa where police say a gunman shot and killed four people before killing himself. Authorities in Norcross are calling it a domestic violence case.More >>

One ticket matched the four winning numbers plus the Mega Ball number to collect $1.5 million in the Mega Money game, the Florida Lottery said Wednesday.More >>

The Georgia House is honoring the 45 National Guard soldiers who have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.More >>

Republican Newt Gingrich is taking his campaign's recent focus on reducing energy costs and boosting domestic production to the airwaves with a 30-minute infomercial-style address.More >>

A Kuwaiti military food supplier is asking a judge to dismiss charges that it defrauded the U.S. government on a multibillion-dollar contract to feed soldiers in the Middle East.More >>

T-Mobile USA, which just had its acquisition by AT&T blocked by regulators, is now urging the federal government to block another deal in the wireless world: Verizon's planned purchase spectrum from cable companies...More >>

The threat of bird strikes to aircraft could doom plans for a waste transfer station in metro Atlanta.More >>

A Georgia city has hired a lawyer who was involved with Atlanta's school cheating probe as it launches an investigation to find out who leaked information from a city council meeting.More >>

The wife of a Georgia man who was gunned down after dropping his toddler off at a suburban Atlanta preschool will testify for a second day.More >>

Gov. Nathan Deal's administration is hosting three workshops for local officials seeking state funding for water supply projects.More >>

A new survey shows that a surging Rick Santorum is running even with Mitt Romney atop the Republican presidential field, but neither candidate is faring well against President Barack Obama eight months before Americans vote.More >>

Authorities say five people are dead in an apparent murder-suicide at a suburban Atlanta spa.More >>

U.S. senators Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss met with a federal commerce official for a briefing on the project to deepen the shipping channel to the Port of Savannah and to tour the port.More >>

State lawmakers have introduced a bill that would outlaw assisted suicide in the wake of a recent Georgia Supreme Court ruling that essentially destroyed a long-running criminal case against members of a suicide group.More >>

GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum is making increasingly harsh remarks about President Barack Obama. He questions not only Obama's competence but also his motives and even his Christian values.More >>

As a Republican lawmaker seeks to tighten rules on when a woman can get an abortion, a Democratic lawmaker is protesting the move by introducing a bill limiting vasectomies.More >>

Georgia lawmakers plan to outline how they will pay for charter schools created by the state if a constitutional amendment passes.More >>

A once-powerful Washington figure himself, Newt Gingrich says he'd shrink the role of the nation's capital if sent back as president.More >>

Georgia is among a growing number of states filing legislation challenging a recent Obama administration decision that seeks to guarantee employees of religion-affiliated institutions reproductive health coverage, which...More >>

Jury selection was expected to start Tuesday in the case against a former attorney of gun manufacturer Glock Inc.More >>

Only minor damage is reported after an earthquake centered in southeast Missouri shook at least nine states.More >>

A Georgia sheriff accused of attacking inmates is scheduled to appear in federal court Tuesday.More >>

Caterpillar could break ground on its new Georgia plant within the next two weeks as more details emerge about the project's timeline.More >>

Three university of Georgia scientists have received a three-year grant to study the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem.More >>

Authorities say a bus driver is recovering after being stabbed repeatedly with a pen northwest of Atlanta.More >>

Southern Baptists first considered changing their name in 1903. Leaders have seriously proposed it at least 13 times since then.More >>

A convicted murderer who came within seven hours of being executed before he was pardoned will speak at Berry College.More >>

An unmistakable dynamic is playing out in the money game among Republican presidential candidates: New "super" political action committees are growing more powerful than the campaigns they support.More >>

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says a preliminary identification of a body found in an Oglethorpe County well is that of a 25-year-old Monroe man who has been missing since last month.More >>

A former Georgia National Guard soldier has been convicted on three counts of child molestation in Cobb County.More >>

Gov. Nathan Deal says Georgia says the state has formed a partnership with Google to bring free websites to small businesses.More >>

The former general counsel of Glock Inc. is facing trial on theft and racketeering charges that he stole millions of dollars from the firearms manufacturing giant.More >>

Police say a 24-year-old man is dead after he was hit by several vehicles while trying to cross a busy highway in south Fulton County.More >>

One winner of the "Fantasy 5" game will collect the top prize of $192,934.08, the Florida Lottery said Monday.More >>

Newt Gingrich's deputy campaign manager says the former House speaker has "tremendous staying power" in the Republican presidential sweepstakes.More >>

A University of Georgia researcher is close to developing the first ever Chagas disease vaccine for pets that will help prevent the spread of the disease to humans.More >>

Cobb County is considering a ban on smoking and tobacco use in all of its 77 parks and recreation areas.More >>

A 16-year-old Savannah student has died in a wreck at a South Carolina hunting club.More >>

A former Cartersville mayoral candidate was sentenced in federal court to 27 months in prison for a $1.25 million mortgage fraud scheme.More >>

A $700,000 settlement was reached in a wreck caused by a prison inmate who ran a stop sign while driving a garbage truck in Wrens.More >>

Authorities are working to target a crime hotspot in west Athens.More >>

Some families who left Alabama last fall in fear of the state's tough crackdown on illegal immigration are returning to the state.More >>

Cobb County police say two people were killed when a vehicle that failed to stop for authorities overturned on an interstate highway ramp.More >>

The National Park Service says it's been three weeks since rangers have seen any smoke from a wildfire that had burned underground for months at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.More >>

Authorities have charged a Georgia man with murder in the slayings of his disabled father and his great aunt at their home in Newton County.More >>

The South's biggest St. Patrick's Day celebration is still nearly a month away, but Savannah is already getting warmed up.More >>

The daughter of the late folk artist Howard Finster says she's opposed to her father being included in a play premiering at the University of Georgia that she likens to "porn art."More >>

Newt Gingrich is criticizing negative ads run by rival Mitt Romney and an independent group supporting his candidacy, saying they have driven down voter turnout in the Republican presidential contest.More >>

A southeast Georgia jury has convicted an Effingham County man of murder in the death of a toddler he was babysitting.More >>

Police are investigating the shooting death of a man whose body was found in the parking lot of a Fulton County church.More >>

A resurgent Rick Santorum hopes to spring his next big surprise in Michigan. Newt Gingrich looks for a campaign revival in the Bible Belt. Mitt Romney has his home state of Massachusetts, and the luxury of picking his spots...More >>

Georgia Sea Grant at the University of Georgia will present a panel discussion called "Art: Connecting the Heart, Mind and Soul of Science."More >>

Federal prosecutors have announced an indictment accusing a Georgia sheriff, his son and two others of violating the rights of an inmate.More >>

Four Georgia inmates who say they were brutally beaten by prison guards while they were handcuffed have settled their lawsuit against the Department of Corrections guards.More >>

Atlanta police officers have arrested a second suspect in the beating of a 20-year-old gay man that was captured in a widely viewed video.More >>

A fugitive task force in northern Ohio has arrested a man wanted in the slaying of his wife in Georgia.More >>

Southern Community Newspapers Inc. is scaling back the number of days it prints three of its metro Atlanta newspapers in order to focus on online news.More >>

A co-founder of Paste Magazine has been named director of the newly created Center for Collaborative Journalism at Mercer University in Macon.More >>

Legislation that would allow deadhead logging in the state has again cleared the Senate.More >>

The state Board of Education has agreed to waive class size requirements for the fourth year in a row.More >>

Authorities say a school bus overturned in northeast Georgia, sending nearly two dozen students to a hospital with injuries that were described as not life-threatening.More >>

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal confirmed that Caterpillar plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Georgia.More >>

Georgia's presidential primary is heating up.More >>

Police have increased patrols after a home invasion and sexual assault at a jeweler's home.More >>

U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss will present a Congressional Gold Medal replica to a World War II veteran who missed receiving the honor in Washington last year.More >>

Savannah is getting ready for a street parade to celebrate the 223rd anniversary of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.More >>

Environmental and watchdog groups are preparing to sue to block construction of two nuclear reactors in eastern Georgia that would be the nation's first built-from-scratch nuclear power plant in a generation.More >>

President Barack Obama has tapped an Atlanta-based lawyer to serve on a federal appeals court.More >>

Emory University's undergraduate program has received more applications than ever before.More >>

About 2,000 people rallied in front of the Georgia Capitol to call for an increase in state funding for the disabled.More >>

The head of Georgia's Republican Party says she'll have to work hard to maintain grassroots momentum among voters after most of the GOP presidential field pulled out of a scheduled debate in Atlanta ahead of Super...More >>

The head of the state's teacher licensing commission said he is frustrated by how long the Fulton County district attorney is taking to decide whether to file charges against educators accused in the Atlanta schools...More >>

Environmental and watchdog groups are suing to block construction of two nuclear reactors in eastern Georgia that would be the nation's first built-from-scratch nuclear power plant in a generation.More >>

The pool of candidates eligible to serve as deputy leader of the Georgia National Guard would widen under a bill approved by House lawmakers.More >>

A defense attorney for a Georgia author charged with bilking two women out of millions of dollars says his client plans to plead guilty to some charges in the case.More >>

A state search committee has recommended that Georgia Department of Transportation Interim Commissioner Keith Golden be named commissioner of the agency.More >>

More than 1,000 people attended the world premiere of the independent film Deadline, which was made in Nashville and inspired by the true story of how a newspaper helped solve a small-town racially motivated killing.More >>

A former Georgia judge's conviction and sentence in a corruption case has been thrown out by a federal court.More >>

Authorities say a U.S. Marine from northeast Georgia has been transferred to a U.S. hospital as he continues to recover from injuries caused by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.More >>

Three winners of the "Fantasy 5" game will collect the top prize of $85,638.63 each, the Florida Lottery said Thursday.More >>

Authorities say the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 in north Georgia were blocked as hazardous materials crews work to clean up a chemical spill in the Dalton area.More >>

An Atlanta hospital has identified a critically ill patient with help from Facebook and a Spanish-language news organization.More >>

The Technical College System of Georgia has received a $50,000 donation to help poor students pay to take the test to get their GED.More >>