Kevin West

Georgia's first sales tax holiday got off to a busy start. Retailers opened their doors early Thursday for customers eager to save pennies on the dollar on computers, clothes and school supplies for the fall.

Fearful of losing senior managers and employees and having trouble recruiting new ones, Enron Corp. Friday asked a bankruptcy court to approve payment of lucrative retention bonuses and severance to them.

AMC Entertainment Inc. has completed its $167 million purchase of GC Companies, the parent company of General Cinemas, AMC said Friday.

The owners of a Tybee Island pest control business were arrested Friday, a week after pesticides exploded outside their home.

Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire on an Israeli police patrol near the boundary between the West Bank and Israel on Saturday, killing one Israeli before they were shot dead, police said.

A DeKalb County parent has been accused of attacking and beating a teacher because she believed the teacher slapped her daughter.

A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Gwinnett County to block the opening of an adult video and novelty store.

Samuel Harold Scott spent a third of his life in prison after being convicted of rape and kidnapping in 1986. Douglas E. Echols served four years for the same crime.

The body of a 12-year-old girl was found Friday in a gully, a day after she was abducted from outside her home in southwestern Louisiana.

Bobby Hutchinson went 4-for-4 and Trent Pratt's three-run homer in the sixth inning gave Auburn a lead it never surrendered as the Tigers beat Florida 8-3 Friday.