Bypassing the state, the University of Georgia is using private financing to pay for its growth, including new student housing, research space and parking decks.
One year after a passer-by found the body of a 37-year-old woman in an empty lot the only homicide in Gainesville last year police say the investigation has dried up.
The State Bar of Georgia has endorsed an overhaul of the state's maligned indigent defense system, calling on the Legislature to pay the full expense of providing lawyers for poor people accused of crimes.
Officials handling the investigation at the crematory where 339 corpses were discovered say they may not need the full $8.5 million set aside by the Legislature to pay for the project.
After colliding with a Chinese fighter jet, spending three months being picked apart and arriving home in pieces, a U.S. Navy spy plane is scheduled to return to service by year's end.
Experts expected the economic recovery to look like a lazy ``L.'' So far this year, though, the economy has soared, tracing the right side of a steep ``V."
A bankruptcy court on Saturday issued a temporary restraining order requiring Penske Auto Centers to continue operating service centers at Kmart Corp. locations in 44 states.
Hundreds of firefighters worked on Saturday keep a 37,000-acre wildfire from spreading, despite gusty wind and lightning that were accompanied by only a little rain.
