Kevin West

Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, branded ``the cruelest kind of thief'' by U.S. prosecutors, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole for spying for Moscow.

Pairings and results for the Georgia High School Association baseball playoffs.

The Hall County Sheriff's Department has a lookout posted for two suspects in a Thursday night armed robbery.

Team leaders --1, Landmark Christian, 42. 2, Pelham, 25. 3, Jefferson, 17. 4, Buford, 16. 5, Savannah Country Day, 12. 6, Adairsville, 11.

A judge on Thursday reduced a landmark $150 million punitive award against Philip Morris to $100 million, saying the original amount was "grossly excessive."

The Arthur Andersen LLP official in charge of Enron Corp. audits stretched accounting rules "to excess" and ignored advice from an in-house watchdog, another Andersen partner testified Thursday in the firm's obstruction of justice trial.

The Federal Reserve reported Thursday that about 20 pieces of mail tested positive for traces of anthrax in an initial screening.

A grand jury has indicted a former Gwinnett County sheriff's deputy in an alleged charity scam involving September 11th.

Authorities have arrested an Atlanta man on charges of concealing the deaths of three men found buried under potting soil in the bed of a pickup truck on Interstate 85 in Coweta County.

The 21-year-old college student accused of putting pipe bombs in mailboxes in five states told authorities he was trying to make a "smiley face" pattern on the map, a sheriff said Thursday.