A man authorities credit with distributing almost a ton of cocaine in the eastern United States over 15 years will serve twice that long in federal prison.
More than 400 Georgia schools will be forced to pay transportation costs for any pupils interested in transferring because the schools failed to meet federal standards for the past two years, state officials announced Thursday.
It's not the salary. That theme echoes along the pickets posted around Lockheed Martin's huge Cobb County plant and through the union hall just north of the factory.
Federal health officials reported Thursday that tuberculosis cases fell to an all-time low in the United States last year, but the decline appears to be leveling off.
An Army pilot so skilled he could fly eight types of aircraft was remembered Thursday by fellow members of the Golden Knights parachute exhibition team.
A fire at the Greater St. Peter's United Assembly of God Holiness Church was ruled arson Thursday by state Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, Folkston police and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
``This is the largest mistake I've made in my life.'' With that statement of contrition -- and a guilty plea to a drug count -- former National League MVP Ken Caminiti was sentenced to three years' probation Thursday.
