Kevin West

Ninety-one years after fingerprint evidence was first introduced in a U.S. courtroom, its reputation as an infallible forensic tool is under attack in a court challenge that could change how criminal cases are tried.

Habersham County has pulled out of plans for a tri-county jail with Stephens and Rabun counties.

A charge from fourth to first late in the race gave Matt Kenseth the victory Sunday in the Subway 400 at North Carolina Speedway.

Priscilla Ramirez has never had stock options. She doesn't have high-tech skills. She has no MBA to fall back on. And she isn't spending her jobless months traveling through Asia.

Educational services provider Sylvan Learning Systems says it may raise money by shedding its international division.

In a bid to gain a strong foothold in the lucrative military satellite market, defense giant Northrop Grumman Corp. made a surprise $5.9 billion offer Friday to buy TRW Inc.

Subway Restaurants is abandoning its cityscape mural design in favor of an Old World-inspired look, including softer lighting, brick wall coverings, gold stucco and porcelain stone-like floor tiles.

Hundreds of volunteers joined the search Saturday for a missing 7-year-old girl after the arrest of a neighbor and the discovery of bloodstained evidence lent grim urgency to the task of finding her.

An escaped Texas murderer was arrested at a North Carolina hotel on Saturday, almost a week after he overpowered a corrections officer and fled in a pickup truck.

Rival motorcycle gangs armed with daggers, baseball bats and a machine gun clashed at an indoor motorcycle and tattoo expo called the Hellraiser Ball.