Lawmakers will pay their last respect today to former Governor Herman Talmadge -- who died Thursday at the age of 88, more than two decades after leaving public office as a U-S senator.
Health officials warned Monday that the nation must prepare for a bioterrorist attack far worse than the anthrax letters last fall, raising fears of genetically engineered germs and infections passed through the food supply.
A car slammed into the back of a moving van on a foggy stretch of highway early Monday, causing a chain-reaction pileup that left six people dead, authorities said.
The emergency debate in the House of Commons was supposed to be about the government's decision to send more British combat troops to Afghanistan. But legislators repeatedly shifted the focus to Iraq.