Kevin West

Even casual sports fans associate Augusta with the azaleas and majestic pines that line the fairways of one of the planet's most storied golf courses.

A concourse at Milwaukee's Mitchell International Airport was evacuated Friday after a man went through a security checkpoint without stopping and disappeared into the crowd, officials said.

Federal securities regulators proposed on Thursday that companies be required to file quarterly and annual reports faster and to disclose more information to investors.

A couple and their grandson were killed in a house fire in East Point early Friday, authorities said.

The Navy has been using NASA satellite data to help guide ships and planes in the war in Afghanistan, marking the first time the military has employed the space agency's up-to-date information in combat.

Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered federal agencies Thursday to link the databases of local and federal law enforcers with foreign intelligence sources to lower bureaucratic barriers and rivalries that could stand in the way of fighting terrorism.

A fire at an historic building in Walton County has been ruled as undetermined, investigators said.

A judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit by a woman seeking to gain control of $3 million in assets from donations by people who flocked to hear of her Virgin Mary visions in the 1990s.

A former Ware County High School bookkeeper has been arrested and charged with embezzling $168,320 in high school student activities funds.

A 28-year-old Russian immigrant who had attended the University of Georgia since 1992 has been charged with murder in the shooting of a Monroe real-estate man at her Athens apartment.