Kevin West

Funeral services for the 16-year-old girl who was beaten and stabbed to death are scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday at the Hatcher Funeral Home.

A 17-year-old girl is expected to return to the stand today to continue testimony against a teacher facing sexual assault charges.

An Avondale Estates commissioner has been charged with driving under the influence.

Astronomers measuring the last flickering heat of dying stars have come up with a new estimate for the age of the universe: about 13 billion years - slightly younger than previous estimates.

Eight Palestinians walked out of the Church of the Nativity on Thursday, accompanied by two monks and carrying the bodies of two dead Palestinians out on stretchers, the largest group to leave the church in the 3-week-old standoff.

Investigators trying to determine why a freight train plowed into a passenger train have turned their attention to the moments before the deadly crash, when they say the freight train ran a red light.

Even though courts have ruled that it illegally monopolized the computer software business, Microsoft Corp.'s chairman, Bill Gates, says he doesn't believe his company's tactics significantly hurt competitors.

Solid retail sales, brisk housing activity and improvements for some of the nation's factories gave the economy more momentum in March and early April, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.

Stung by a slipping stock price, General Electric Co. still is on track to increase its earnings by double digits in the next year despite a tough economy, GE's chairman and chief executive said.

The arrival of spring signals the start of home buying season, and many young apartment renters are wondering if they can afford a house.