Kevin West

Shouting ``We're black, we're out and we're proud,'' about 500 people walked the streets of Atlanta on Monday in what was called the only black gay pride march in the country.

Hundreds of workers in the Athens area didn't go to work on Monday, and it wasn't because of the national holiday for Labor Day.

Tracy Faust of Boone, Iowa, never thought a person she will never meet could touch her life in such a profound way.

Pollutants that cause acid rain, haze and smog should be cut to protect the southern Appalachian Mountains, a 10-year study says.

Bubba Mauldin looks over the pasture on an abandoned Burke County farm and sees much more than an overgrown field crisscrossed by concrete culverts.

Federal officials are defending the response of a federal air marshal who held his gun on a passenger-filled cabin for 30 minutes after detaining a man on the flight.

The American Red Cross says its blood supply is safe despite the possibility that West Nile virus was transmitted through a transfusion.

An 81-year-old Alzheimer's disease patient who wandered away from his nursing home Saturday night died in an apparent hit-and-run accident, police said.

A Columbus woman arrested on a shoplifting charge shimmied out of her handcuffs and later her trousers as she led police on a short chase.

Two brothers face criminal charges in the death of a friend who was thrown from the back of their pickup truck.