Kevin West

Former Georgia Tech star Matt Kuchar says he expects to play in the BellSouth Classic and the Masters next month despite withdrawing from The Players Championship with an injured right ankle.

The word 13-year-old Heather Buzzard had to spell correctly to win the Georgia State Spelling Bee Friday is so obscure, it's not even ``sthene'' in the dictionary.

A friendly game of basketball between a U.S. and Afghan team turned violent when spectators kicked a fallen American player in the head -- and a guard rushing to protect him unintentionally shot and wounded two Afghans.

Waste Management Inc., which stuck with Arthur Andersen LLP as its auditor despite two separate accounting lapses, has fired the accounting firm.

The Chevrolets finally got some help from NASCAR for their aerodynamic complaints when the sanctioning body announced a change in the inspection process that effectively adds 1-inch to the front of the Monte Carlos.

Former major league baseball player Tom Paciorek says he and three of his brothers were molested when they were children by a priest who was removed this week from another Michigan church.

Researchers Friday called for detailed new studies to determine whether the additive menthol, advertised as giving cigarettes a cooler taste, makes smoking more dangerous.

After seizing Palestinian offices and scouring thousands of papers, Israel says documents show Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat authorized payment to a militant who allegedly had been involved in killing several Israelis.

A freeze warning is in effect for north and central Georgia Friday ngiht as a cold front sweeps into the state from the northwest.

In another sign of the airline industry's modest recovery, United Airlines said Friday it is recalling another 1,300 employees who were laid off last fall and hiring an additional 900 in key markets.