Kevin West

An autopsy found that a recent West Point graduate who died July 1 during a Ranger training exercise succumbed to heat stroke, the Army said Friday.

St. Louis Blues center Ray Ferraro is calling it a career after 18 NHL seasons.

An airport spokeswoman said security screeners found a loaded handgun and a lock-blade knife in carryon luggage today at Louisville International Airport and police detained a man.

Georgians went back-to-school shopping in a big way Friday, enduring long lines at the checkout counters for a chance to buy their supplies tax-free.

Police said a Georgia man accused in the fatal shooting of two brothers in Walker County was arrested day in Arizona.

A telecommunications company that got tax breaks from Georgia in exchange for a promise of new investment and jobs told the state Friday it can't fully meet its end of the bargain and will pay back the $11.5 million it saved in taxes.

A group of Georgia farmers are suing two cotton seed manufacturers, claiming the genetically enhanced seeds they were sold four years ago were faulty.

A Purdue University researcher says a couple handfuls of peanuts a day can curb hunger and help people avoid obesity, one of the nation's worst health problems.

The state auditor reported Friday that Senate Democratic Leader Charles Walker and several other members of a group in Augusta overseeing the spending of nearly $20 million in state grants used some of the money to do business with themselves.

Former sheriff's deputy Connie Patrick has been named director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, becoming the first woman to lead the facility created in 1975.