Kevin West

Prosecutors turned up the heat on Martha Stewart Wednesday when a stockbroker's assistant admitted taking a payoff to keep silent about an alleged insider stock trade by the home decorating diva.

Growth in servers and storage-related sales at Dell Computer Corp. is expected to push third-quarter revenue past expectations to $9.1 billion, the company announced Tuesday.

Shares of Charter Communications Inc. plunged to a 52-week low Wednesday, a day after the nation's fourth-largest cable company reduced its third-quarter forecast citing declining subscriptions

All that postseason experience hardly mattered for Tom Glavine.

The stock of Witness Systems Incorporated plunged Wednesday after the information-technology concern said third-quarter revenue and earnings would miss expectations because of customers delaying purchases in the economic downturn.

Zack, the state's arson dog, retired Wednesday after a seven-year career sniffing out suspicious fires and helping investigators make more than 100 arrests.

United Parcel Service is suing an Internet advertising company whose ads pop up on Web surfers' computers without their permission.

Republican Sonny Perdue is doing Governor Barnes' advertising for him.

A former militant civil rights leader serving a life sentence without parole for killing a deputy sheriff in Atlanta was arraigned on charges stemming from his arrest more than two years ago in Lowndes County, Alabama.

Coastal Georgia marsh grass is dying off by the acre, and scientists are scrambling to figure out why.