Kevin West

The Atlanta Regional Commission reported Thursday that the population growth in Atlanta's 10 metro counties slowed somewhat in the last year, but the city of Atlanta bucked that trend, gaining 8,900 new residents, its highest single-year increase sinc

Ask Chuck Byrd why he's running for Congress and the Houston County lawyer gives a blunt answer: He just sent his youngest daughter off to the University of Georgia.

The primary race between outspoken Democratic Representative Cynthia McKinney and challenger Denise Majette has drawn the attention of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who is said to be planning a get-out-the-vote rally in DeKalb County Saturday.

Another Atlanta reliever, Mike Remlinger, however, eligible to come off the 15-day disabled list on August 22, may not be ready by then.

Braves' right-handed reliever Kevin Gryboski, who is eligible to return from the 15-day disabled list after being sidelined with a sore elbow, will head to Macon for a rehabilitation assignment.

Shares of CryoLife Inc. plunged more than 70 percent Thursday after the human tissue bank delayed a quarterly securities filing. The sharp selloff occurred a day after federal regulators ordered the company to stop distributing human cadaver tissue.

Richmond County authorities have arrested a homeless teenager linked to a string of residential burglaries in Hephzibah.

A five-year-old kindergarten student at White Bluff Elementary School was suspended on his second day of school for bringing in what school officials say was a violent toy, tiny plastic guns used for GI Joe dolls.

Tee Martin said no rules were broken when he accepted several gifts of money while a quarterback at Tennessee from an Alabama sportswriter.

A Georgia tissue bank says it will appeal the government's order to stop selling its cadaver tissue because its products have been linked to a death and serious infections.