Kevin West

South Carolina coach Dave Odom knew long ago his first season as coach was a success. But it took an electrifying run to the NIT finals to convince everybody else.

Home runs by Jarrod Schmidt, Jeff Baker and Collin Mahoney pushed Clemson to a 13-6 win over Maryland on Friday night.

Forsyth and Gwinnett counties are on board with eight other metro Atlanta counties for the area's first regional bus system.

A top official at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has been named acting director as part of an interim management team to lead the agency until a new director is named.

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.'s chief financial officer Heinz Stubblefield will leave April 1 to take the top finance spot at AHL Services Inc., XM said Friday.

Struggling telecommunications firm XO Communications warned in its annual report Friday that it will likely file for bankruptcy as part of a restructuring plan.

Dozens of FBI agents joined the search Friday for a 12-year-old girl snatched from outside her home in southwestern Louisiana.

The annual salary of Robert Nardelli, chairman, president and chief executive of The Home Depot Incorporated, was $1.5 million in 2001, up from $202,531 in 2000, according to a preliminary proxy filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Workers had 10,800 eggs to boil for Monday's egg roll -- not to mention finishing up the 25-pound, chocolate sculpture of President Bush's Scottish terrier, Barney.

On the morning of November 9, 1948, someone in Athens, mailed a small envelope to F. Fromm at 155 Harvester Avenue, Batavia. It bore no return address.