Kevin West

Lottery officials in Atlanta prepared to draw for the final Big Game jackpot Tuesday night while their new multistate game, Mega Millions, waited in the wings with gaudier prizes, more states and much longer odds of winning.

No Greg Maddux or Andruw Jones for this game. Still, former President Carter was going to the ballpark to watch Cuban all-stars Tuesday night, and Fidel Castro was expected to tag along.

A 16-year-old Thomson High School student died and two of his classmates were seriously injured Monday in a one-car crash.

After a tightfisted March, U.S. consumers splurged in April and pushed retail sales up by 1.2 percent, the biggest increase in six months.

An Amtrak train struck a log truck at a crossing Tuesday morning, and 10 cars were derailed and at least two people seriously injured.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Tuesday its first-quarter earnings were up 19.4 percent from the same quarter a year ago, beating Wall Street expectations.

After years of cheerfully exchanging deodorant-smudged shirts, scratched videocameras and even used lipsticks, retailers are adding a new word to their lexicon: "No."

The Associated Press has learned Ken Hitchcock has been hired to coach the Philadelphia Flyers. The NHL team has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday morning.

Three area students were each awarded $1,000 scholarships by Sawnee EMC at the spring meeting of the Sawnee EMC Consumer Advisory Task Force (CATF) on May 7.

David B. Duncan, the former Arthur Andersen LLP auditor, hardly had settled into the witness chair before he implicated himself and his former employer in the shredding of Enron Corp. documents.