Kevin West

An expanded and tougher city ethics board and an officer to act as prosecutor for the panel are among new measures approved by the City Council.

A Holly Springs police officer is on paid administrative leave after a shootout that left a man dead.

Pike County police have broken up an alleged check fraud scam that stretched across metro Atlanta, WSB-TV reported Thursday.

Aaron Hill drove in four runs on a homer and a single as LSU defeated Tulane 9-5 Wednesday night in the best-attended college baseball game ever.

Stephen Drew had two hits including a seventh-inning homer to lead Florida State to a 7-1 win Wednesday over Jacksonville.

The top-ranked Brenau tennis women remain unbeaten this spring.

Southern Tech zapped Piedmont 12-2 in college baseball Wednesday, while the North Georgia softball women swept a DH from Emmanuel Tuesday.

Insurance companies doing business in Georgia would have to provide coverage for diabetes medicine, testing supplies and self-management training under a bill given final legislative approval in the Senate on Wednesday.

The young eagles huddling together seemingly paid little mind to the helicopter circling above their pine tree nest at Lake Oconee.

The wife of a Marine helicopter mechanic killed in the crash of an MV-22 Osprey in December 2000 has sued the craft's manufacturers, calling the tilt-rotor aircraft ``defective and unreasonably dangerous.''