Kevin West

Columbus securities executive Lois N. Cohen said she is running as a Democrat to try to unseat Republican Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine.

About 45 students in Cobb County won't be at the senior picnic Friday; instead, they must take their exit exams again after school officials lost their test scores.

A Georgia man accused of taking nearly $75,000 from the Alpharetta movie theater he managed is fighting extradition on theft charges.

New legislation aimed at improving the quality of mental health services in Georgia also overhauls the existing system, transferring control from 13 regional boards to the state Department of Human Resources.

Officials are considering a bank's electrical system as a possible cause of an early morning blaze Thursday.

A search committee has narrowed its choices for the next president of the University of Alabama at Birmingham

A judge has ruled the retrial of a man charged in the 1988 Signal Mountain deaths of three ATV riders will be held in Hamilton County, but the jury will be chosen in Knoxville.

The Southeastern Conference sent an investigator Thursday to the home of a former University of Tennessee employee to examine documents that he says prove a pattern of academic fraud.

An Alabama businesswoman denies giving money to former Tennessee quarterback Tee Martin or to a sportswriter to give to Martin.

Three players, including one from Georgia, hobbled off during the U.S. soccer team's 5-0 victory over Jamaica in a World Cup warmup Thursday night.