Kevin West

A malfunctioning power supply unit led to an alert Tuesday at the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant near Baxley, in southeast Georgia.

The State Department, citing a ``deteriorating security situation,'' warned Americans on Tuesday to defer travel to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza and said dependents of American diplomats in Jerusalem were being encouraged to go home.

The South Georgia Waves - the city's latest minor league baseball team - arrived at the Paul Eames Sports Complex this week to prepare for their Thursday opener in Asheville, N.C.

The owner of an adult novelty store is on trial this week for allegedly violating a rarely applied Georgia obscenity law.

Baptist Worth Hospital in Sylvester has been sold to Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Dougherty County, which did not buy the Lifeflight service.

A pilot ditched his small plane in the Mississippi River after losing power, sending him, his wife and daughter swimming toward an island until a fisherman plucked them from the icy water.

Best Buy Co. Inc., helped by strong sales of digital products and entertainment software as well as expense controls, reported that fourth-quarter profits surged 84 percent, beating Wall Street projections by a penny.

The cost of weight-loss programs that are part of the treatment for diseases such as obesity are tax deductible, the Internal Revenue Service ruled Tuesday.

IBM Corp., Sony Corp., Sony Computer Entertainment and Toshiba Corp. have agreed to jointly develop technologies for making advanced computer chips expected to be used in future electronics products.

The International Monetary Fund is pushing forward with a proposal to create the equivalent of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy process for individual countries in an effort to limit the damage from future international debt crises.