Kevin West

As The Walt Disney Co. struggles to rapidly resuscitate ABC, the entertainment giant is looking to use the muscle of its ESPN cable sports network to bolster its flagging media division.

A 41-year-old Macon man died in a house fire Sunday, the second fatal fire in Macon this weekend.

The Georgia Supreme Court decided Monday that Thomas County citizens should be able to continue a lawsuit against a county official over the installation of a telecommunications tower.

A lawsuit challenging Columbus' 19-year freeze of property tax assessments goes before a judge this week, and the outcome could affect other Georgia counties with similar tax laws.

After four straight losing seasons, Steve Robinson is out at Florida State, The Associated Press has learned.

A family of five from Alabama that went on a shark fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico has been missing since Saturday.

It was a good Sunday for the state's college and university baseball teams, while North Ga. despite a loss Sunday, took 2-of-3 from Brewton-Parker in a weekend series. Meanwhile, local high school tournament action continues not only in baseball, but

Six months to the minute after two hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center, mourners paused to remember the 2,830 victims who "would want us to lift up our heads very, very high," former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said.

Kmart Corp.'s chief executive, Chuck Conaway, left the nation's third biggest discount chain on Monday, three days after the company operating under bankruptcy protection announced plans to close 284 stores and cut 22,000 jobs.

GlaxoSmithKline PLC chairman Sir Richard Sykes is stepping down in May, ending a nine-year tenure during which he led Glaxo's acquisition of Wellcome and helped arrange the group's merger with U.S. rival SmithKline Beecham.