Kevin West

Superior Court Judge Franklin H. Pierce, who had served on the bench since 1972, died Tuesday at his home. He was 85.

Emory University and four other medical centers are searching for 1,560 volunteers to take part in a clinical trial to determine the most effective way to administer the anthrax vaccine.

Authorities say an airline passenger mumbled, paced and locked himself in the bathroom on a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to Portland, Oregon, forcing the plane to land at Denver International Airport.

A lawyer for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta said the archdiocese told Cobb County authorities about sex-abuse allegations involving a former church volunteer the day the accusations were made.

An Augusta woman was killed early Tuesday morning when she was hit by a pickup truck on the Bobby Jones Expressway.

Nunnally is one of 83 public housing residents in Augusta who were told in April that their window air-conditioning units did not meet a federal regulation and were a fire hazard.

Authorities say the investigation into the fog-related pileup on Interstate 75 just north of Ringgold in March that involved 128 vehicles, killed five people and left 38 others injured could take another six months to complete.

A ten-month-old girl was struck and killed by a delivery van.

A federal judge denied bond Tuesday to the founder of the United Nuwaubians Nation of Moors but granted it for his partner.

Bank of America is seeking a court-appointed receiver to protect assets pledged by Bobs Candies Incorporated as collateral for unpaid loans and to have the business liquidated.