Kevin West

With Tom Gordon out for the foreseeable future, the Chicago Cubs needed a closer. On Wednesday, they got their guy.

Matthew Maniscalco drove in three runs and J.B. Tucker homered as Mississippi State defeated New Orleans 7-1 Wednesday.

Sports fans call the NCAA men's basketball tournament March Madness. Las Vegas casinos just call it profitable.

Sports fans call the NCAA men's basketball tournament March Madness. Las Vegas casinos just call it profitable.

The Lady Lions of Piedmont split a softball doubleheader with LaGrange Wednesday.

A state official said Wednesday that the search of a lake bed at Tri-State Crematory in northwest Georgia has ended with no additional bodies found.

A Georgia businessman has been accused of defrauding the development agency of the African kingdom of Swaziland with a phony $6 million scheme to build baby food and candy factories.

Milton Berle, the acerbic, cigar-smoking vaudevillian who eagerly embraced a new medium and became ``Mr. Television'' in the dawn of the video age, died Wednesday.

A Baldwin woman has died, the result of injuries from a two car accident that occurred last week in her hometown.

A Georgia man pleaded guilty Wednesday to buying a bogus Pennsylvania licenses to transport hazardous materials, bringing to 14 the number of people who have pleaded guilty in the license-for-bribes scheme.