Kevin West

Roy Kramer, who changed the way college football decides its national champion, will retire as commissioner of the Southeastern Conference.

Grady Little, bench coach in Boston from 1997-99 and at Cleveland since then, was hired Monday as the team's third manager in a week and fourth in seven months.

Thirty Army Rangers snapped to attention when pallbearers carried Cpl. Matthew A. Commons' casket to his gravesite Monday as his grieving parents and brothers looked on.

Officials of the state Environmental Protection Division certified Rockdale County's new water plant Monday to purify 22.1 million gallons a day, an increase of more than 6 million from the original design.

Attorney General Bill Lockyer sued four energy concerns Monday, including Atlanta-based Mirant Corp., alleging they double-billed Californians millions for electricity.

The U.S. Forest Service has asked for the public's opinion regarding plans to battle the Southern Pine Beetle in the Chattahoochee National Forest.

Maryland coach Gary Williams is the Associated Press Atlantic Coast Conference coach of the year, edging out North Carolina State's Herb Sendek.

A state parole board turned down a plea for mercy Monday from a man convicted of the rape and beating death of a Lawrenceville woman.

Larry Edge had been at his post on the picket line outside the Lockheed Martin aircraft assembly plant for nearly seven hours Monday, but he wasn't ready to leave.

Cigarettes made from genetically altered tobacco that will be nearly free of nicotine should be on the market under the Quest brand later this year, its maker said Monday.