Kevin West

Goats are efficient weed-eaters, so Charles Batten put a few in his cow pastures to keep the grass free of briars and underbrush.

Nearly 15 years before Gerica McCrary was born, recently integrated Taylor County High School stopped sponsoring a prom. Parents and students set up their own - one for blacks and one for whites.

A Jeffersonville police officer was acquitted of assault charges Friday, nearly two years after she and a Twiggs County deputy got into a scuffle at a crime scene.

A researcher at a germ warfare defense laboratory at Fort Detrick is taking antibiotics as a precaution after testing positive for exposure to anthrax spores, the Army announced.

As Canada prepared for the return of the bodies of four of its troops killed by a U.S. bomb in Afghanistan, people here expressed anger at their deaths but few saw lasting damage to relations between the nations.

An earthquake felt from Maine to Pennsylvania rattled the Northeast Saturday morning with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Beverly Daniel Tatum has been named the ninth president of Spelman College - succeeding retiring Audrey Forbes Manley in leading the historically black college for women.

The co-pastor of metro Atlanta's largest church - New Birth Missionary Baptist Church - is leaving to start his own ministry.

A Clayton County woman accused of murdering her four-year-old stepson has been denied bond.

The Fulton County school system plans to ask the U.S. District Court to end its court-ordered desegregation plan.