Kevin West

Two Oglethorpe University students were charged Tuesday with manufacturing a hoax device, an envelope containing baby powder that touched off an anthrax scare.

The board of Georgia-Pacific Corporation voted Tuesday to separate the company's lucrative consumer products business into a new company and sell some of its shares to the public.

The University of Georgia is likely to buy a tropical forest in Costa Rica and a 13th century convent in Italy for permanent study-abroad programs.

A 17-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill her mother and has agreed to testify against her father.

Services were held Tuesday for Ruth Corry, a state archivist and genealogist who headed reference services for the Georgia Department of Archives and History.

Retired Athens radio executive H. Randolph Holder has died at the Athens Regional Medical Center. He was 85.

PepsiCo., thirsting for more of the sales generated by a cherry-red version of its Mountain Dew soda, will broaden the strategy by introducing a new, blue variation of its flagship soft drink this summer.

Retired Athens radio executive H. Randolph Holder has died at the Athens Regional Medical Center. He was 85.

A high-school senior was expelled three weeks before graduation after school officials found two steak knives in the bed of his pickup truck.

Hoping to equalize the competition in the football playoffs, the Georgia High School Association is considering a new classification made up of 32 of the largest schools in the state, 29 in the metro Atlanta area.